Mac OSX Bash Profile

.bash_profile

#  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
#
#  Description:  This file holds all my BASH configurations and aliases
#
#  Sections:
#  1.   Environment Configuration
#  2.   Make Terminal Better (remapping defaults and adding functionality)
#  3.   File and Folder Management
#  4.   Searching
#  5.   Process Management
#  6.   Networking
#  7.   System Operations & Information
#  8.   Web Development
#  9.   Reminders & Notes
#
#  ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

#   -------------------------------
#   1.  ENVIRONMENT CONFIGURATION
#   -------------------------------

#   Change Prompt
#   ------------------------------------------------------------
    export PS1="________________________________________________________________________________\n| \w @ \h (\u) \n| => "
    export PS2="| => "

#   Set Paths
#   ------------------------------------------------------------
    export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/"
    export PATH="/usr/local/git/bin:/sw/bin/:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"

#   Set Default Editor (change 'Nano' to the editor of your choice)
#   ------------------------------------------------------------
    export EDITOR=/usr/bin/nano

#   Set default blocksize for ls, df, du
#   from this: http://hints.macworld.com/comment.php?mode=view&cid=24491
#   ------------------------------------------------------------
    export BLOCKSIZE=1k

#   Add color to terminal
#   (this is all commented out as I use Mac Terminal Profiles)
#   from http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/21/add-color-to-the-terminal-in-mac-os-x/
#   ------------------------------------------------------------
#   export CLICOLOR=1
#   export LSCOLORS=ExFxBxDxCxegedabagacad


#   -----------------------------
#   2.  MAKE TERMINAL BETTER
#   -----------------------------

alias cp='cp -iv'                           # Preferred 'cp' implementation
alias mv='mv -iv'                           # Preferred 'mv' implementation
alias mkdir='mkdir -pv'                     # Preferred 'mkdir' implementation
alias ll='ls -FGlAhp'                       # Preferred 'ls' implementation
alias less='less -FSRXc'                    # Preferred 'less' implementation
cd() { builtin cd "$@"; ll; }               # Always list directory contents upon 'cd'
alias cd..='cd ../'                         # Go back 1 directory level (for fast typers)
alias ..='cd ../'                           # Go back 1 directory level
alias ...='cd ../../'                       # Go back 2 directory levels
alias .3='cd ../../../'                     # Go back 3 directory levels
alias .4='cd ../../../../'                  # Go back 4 directory levels
alias .5='cd ../../../../../'               # Go back 5 directory levels
alias .6='cd ../../../../../../'            # Go back 6 directory levels
alias edit='subl'                           # edit:         Opens any file in sublime editor
alias f='open -a Finder ./'                 # f:            Opens current directory in MacOS Finder
alias ~="cd ~"                              # ~:            Go Home
alias c='clear'                             # c:            Clear terminal display
alias which='type -all'                     # which:        Find executables
alias path='echo -e ${PATH//:/\\n}'         # path:         Echo all executable Paths
alias show_options='shopt'                  # Show_options: display bash options settings
alias fix_stty='stty sane'                  # fix_stty:     Restore terminal settings when screwed up
alias cic='set completion-ignore-case On'   # cic:          Make tab-completion case-insensitive
mcd () { mkdir -p "$1" && cd "$1"; }        # mcd:          Makes new Dir and jumps inside
trash () { command mv "$@" ~/.Trash ; }     # trash:        Moves a file to the MacOS trash
ql () { qlmanage -p "$*" >& /dev/null; }    # ql:           Opens any file in MacOS Quicklook Preview
alias DT='tee ~/Desktop/terminalOut.txt'    # DT:           Pipe content to file on MacOS Desktop

#   lr:  Full Recursive Directory Listing
#   ------------------------------------------
alias lr='ls -R | grep ":$" | sed -e '\''s/:$//'\'' -e '\''s/[^-][^\/]*\//--/g'\'' -e '\''s/^/   /'\'' -e '\''s/-/|/'\'' | less'

#   mans:   Search manpage given in agument '1' for term given in argument '2' (case insensitive)
#           displays paginated result with colored search terms and two lines surrounding each hit.             Example: mans mplayer codec
#   --------------------------------------------------------------------
    mans () {
        man $1 | grep -iC2 --color=always $2 | less
    }

#   showa: to remind yourself of an alias (given some part of it)
#   ------------------------------------------------------------
    showa () { /usr/bin/grep --color=always -i -a1 $@ ~/Library/init/bash/aliases.bash | grep -v '^\s*$' | less -FSRXc ; }


#   -------------------------------
#   3.  FILE AND FOLDER MANAGEMENT
#   -------------------------------

zipf () { zip -r "$1".zip "$1" ; }          # zipf:         To create a ZIP archive of a folder
alias numFiles='echo $(ls -1 | wc -l)'      # numFiles:     Count of non-hidden files in current dir
alias make1mb='mkfile 1m ./1MB.dat'         # make1mb:      Creates a file of 1mb size (all zeros)
alias make5mb='mkfile 5m ./5MB.dat'         # make5mb:      Creates a file of 5mb size (all zeros)
alias make10mb='mkfile 10m ./10MB.dat'      # make10mb:     Creates a file of 10mb size (all zeros)

#   cdf:  'Cd's to frontmost window of MacOS Finder
#   ------------------------------------------------------
    cdf () {
        currFolderPath=$( /usr/bin/osascript <<EOT
            tell application "Finder"
                try
            set currFolder to (folder of the front window as alias)
                on error
            set currFolder to (path to desktop folder as alias)
                end try
                POSIX path of currFolder
            end tell
EOT
        )
        echo "cd to \"$currFolderPath\""
        cd "$currFolderPath"
    }

#   extract:  Extract most know archives with one command
#   ---------------------------------------------------------
    extract () {
        if [ -f $1 ] ; then
          case $1 in
            *.tar.bz2)   tar xjf $1     ;;
            *.tar.gz)    tar xzf $1     ;;
            *.bz2)       bunzip2 $1     ;;
            *.rar)       unrar e $1     ;;
            *.gz)        gunzip $1      ;;
            *.tar)       tar xf $1      ;;
            *.tbz2)      tar xjf $1     ;;
            *.tgz)       tar xzf $1     ;;
            *.zip)       unzip $1       ;;
            *.Z)         uncompress $1  ;;
            *.7z)        7z x $1        ;;
            *)     echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via extract()" ;;
             esac
         else
             echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
         fi
    }


#   ---------------------------
#   4.  SEARCHING
#   ---------------------------

alias qfind="find . -name "                 # qfind:    Quickly search for file
ff () { /usr/bin/find . -name "$@" ; }      # ff:       Find file under the current directory
ffs () { /usr/bin/find . -name "$@"'*' ; }  # ffs:      Find file whose name starts with a given string
ffe () { /usr/bin/find . -name '*'"$@" ; }  # ffe:      Find file whose name ends with a given string

#   spotlight: Search for a file using MacOS Spotlight's metadata
#   -----------------------------------------------------------
    spotlight () { mdfind "kMDItemDisplayName == '$@'wc"; }


#   ---------------------------
#   5.  PROCESS MANAGEMENT
#   ---------------------------

#   findPid: find out the pid of a specified process
#   -----------------------------------------------------
#       Note that the command name can be specified via a regex
#       E.g. findPid '/d$/' finds pids of all processes with names ending in 'd'
#       Without the 'sudo' it will only find processes of the current user
#   -----------------------------------------------------
    findPid () { lsof -t -c "$@" ; }

#   memHogsTop, memHogsPs:  Find memory hogs
#   -----------------------------------------------------
    alias memHogsTop='top -l 1 -o rsize | head -20'
    alias memHogsPs='ps wwaxm -o pid,stat,vsize,rss,time,command | head -10'

#   cpuHogs:  Find CPU hogs
#   -----------------------------------------------------
    alias cpu_hogs='ps wwaxr -o pid,stat,%cpu,time,command | head -10'

#   topForever:  Continual 'top' listing (every 10 seconds)
#   -----------------------------------------------------
    alias topForever='top -l 9999999 -s 10 -o cpu'

#   ttop:  Recommended 'top' invocation to minimize resources
#   ------------------------------------------------------------
#       Taken from this macosxhints article
#       http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060816123853639
#   ------------------------------------------------------------
    alias ttop="top -R -F -s 10 -o rsize"

#   my_ps: List processes owned by my user:
#   ------------------------------------------------------------
    my_ps() { ps $@ -u $USER -o pid,%cpu,%mem,start,time,bsdtime,command ; }


#   ---------------------------
#   6.  NETWORKING
#   ---------------------------

alias myip='curl ip.appspot.com'                    # myip:         Public facing IP Address
alias netCons='lsof -i'                             # netCons:      Show all open TCP/IP sockets
alias flushDNS='dscacheutil -flushcache'            # flushDNS:     Flush out the DNS Cache
alias lsock='sudo /usr/sbin/lsof -i -P'             # lsock:        Display open sockets
alias lsockU='sudo /usr/sbin/lsof -nP | grep UDP'   # lsockU:       Display only open UDP sockets
alias lsockT='sudo /usr/sbin/lsof -nP | grep TCP'   # lsockT:       Display only open TCP sockets
alias ipInfo0='ipconfig getpacket en0'              # ipInfo0:      Get info on connections for en0
alias ipInfo1='ipconfig getpacket en1'              # ipInfo1:      Get info on connections for en1
alias openPorts='sudo lsof -i | grep LISTEN'        # openPorts:    All listening connections
alias showBlocked='sudo ipfw list'                  # showBlocked:  All ipfw rules inc/ blocked IPs

#   ii:  display useful host related informaton
#   -------------------------------------------------------------------
    ii() {
        echo -e "\nYou are logged on ${RED}$HOST"
        echo -e "\nAdditionnal information:$NC " ; uname -a
        echo -e "\n${RED}Users logged on:$NC " ; w -h
        echo -e "\n${RED}Current date :$NC " ; date
        echo -e "\n${RED}Machine stats :$NC " ; uptime
        echo -e "\n${RED}Current network location :$NC " ; scselect
        echo -e "\n${RED}Public facing IP Address :$NC " ;myip
        #echo -e "\n${RED}DNS Configuration:$NC " ; scutil --dns
        echo
    }


#   ---------------------------------------
#   7.  SYSTEMS OPERATIONS & INFORMATION
#   ---------------------------------------

alias mountReadWrite='/sbin/mount -uw /'    # mountReadWrite:   For use when booted into single-user

#   cleanupDS:  Recursively delete .DS_Store files
#   -------------------------------------------------------------------
    alias cleanupDS="find . -type f -name '*.DS_Store' -ls -delete"

#   finderShowHidden:   Show hidden files in Finder
#   finderHideHidden:   Hide hidden files in Finder
#   -------------------------------------------------------------------
    alias finderShowHidden='defaults write com.apple.finder ShowAllFiles TRUE'
    alias finderHideHidden='defaults write com.apple.finder ShowAllFiles FALSE'

#   cleanupLS:  Clean up LaunchServices to remove duplicates in the "Open With" menu
#   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    alias cleanupLS="/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user && killall Finder"

#    screensaverDesktop: Run a screensaver on the Desktop
#   -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    alias screensaverDesktop='/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background'

#   ---------------------------------------
#   8.  WEB DEVELOPMENT
#   ---------------------------------------

alias apacheEdit='sudo edit /etc/httpd/httpd.conf'      # apacheEdit:       Edit httpd.conf
alias apacheRestart='sudo apachectl graceful'           # apacheRestart:    Restart Apache
alias editHosts='sudo edit /etc/hosts'                  # editHosts:        Edit /etc/hosts file
alias herr='tail /var/log/httpd/error_log'              # herr:             Tails HTTP error logs
alias apacheLogs="less +F /var/log/apache2/error_log"   # Apachelogs:   Shows apache error logs
httpHeaders () { /usr/bin/curl -I -L $@ ; }             # httpHeaders:      Grabs headers from web page

#   httpDebug:  Download a web page and show info on what took time
#   -------------------------------------------------------------------
    httpDebug () { /usr/bin/curl $@ -o /dev/null -w "dns: %{time_namelookup} connect: %{time_connect} pretransfer: %{time_pretransfer} starttransfer: %{time_starttransfer} total: %{time_total}\n" ; }


#   ---------------------------------------
#   9.  REMINDERS & NOTES
#   ---------------------------------------

#   remove_disk: spin down unneeded disk
#   ---------------------------------------
#   diskutil eject /dev/disk1s3

#   to change the password on an encrypted disk image:
#   ---------------------------------------
#   hdiutil chpass /path/to/the/diskimage

#   to mount a read-only disk image as read-write:
#   ---------------------------------------
#   hdiutil attach example.dmg -shadow /tmp/example.shadow -noverify

#   mounting a removable drive (of type msdos or hfs)
#   ---------------------------------------
#   mkdir /Volumes/Foo
#   ls /dev/disk*   to find out the device to use in the mount command)
#   mount -t msdos /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/Foo
#   mount -t hfs /dev/disk1s1 /Volumes/Foo

#   to create a file of a given size: /usr/sbin/mkfile or /usr/bin/hdiutil
#   ---------------------------------------
#   e.g.: mkfile 10m 10MB.dat
#   e.g.: hdiutil create -size 10m 10MB.dmg
#   the above create files that are almost all zeros - if random bytes are desired
#   then use: ~/Dev/Perl/randBytes 1048576 > 10MB.dat

Useful, I learned some tricks thanks ;)

show and ider finder on Yosemite works with this commands:

finderShowHidden: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean true ; killall Finder
finderHideHidden: defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -boolean false ; killall Finder

You did an amazing work.

Thank you.

man, I love you 👊

Awesome effort you've made!

Love it.

thank you for a great set of aliases and functions. Also appreciate the detailed descriptions and nuanced sections.

Thanks for extract! Frequently I have to look up all the command options I need!

Thanks! Gotta love the shortcuts!

Very nice indeed! Thanks!

Thanks! I'm using it.

Great Set! Here are a few additions I have in my bash profile.

### Make Terminal Better
alias lsd='ll | grep "^d"'          # Preferred 'ls' implementation (only directories)
alias restartdock='killall Dock'    # Restart dock

### Environment Config
export PROMPT_COMMAND='echo -ne "\033]0;${PWD##*/}\007"'    # Show working directory in tab

Nice list. Thanks for the share.

Awesome ,love it

This is godsend. Thank you.

Thank you for taking the time to create this!

Hell yes!!

Good stuff. I will be stealing many of these.

Great script!! My terminal is MUCH better now!

A few things I changed in my fork:

1. Editing & Sourcing .bash_profile multiple times in a single terminal session causes PATH to keep growing, re-adding the same directories to the PATH over and over.
2. Closing and opening terminal, or having to issue the source command, to activate my changes

This is a really great script template, Ive use a large part of it into my own bash profile

Very cool script. Curious to hear if you have any opinion on https://www.iterm2.com/ ?

Thanks for your great collection!

Instead of:
alias myip='curl ip.appspot.com'
which isn't (currently?) working, I prefer:
alias myip='dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com'
Apparently more reliable and faster. (dig is usually installed by default on macOS)

You could always just curl icanhazip.com instead to get that functionality back:

alias myip='curl icanhazip.com'

Line 58 has an error for the "ll" command, for some reason the alias doesn't appear to be working.

Hm. Only seems to happen with Vagrant up and halt. Still seems to be working as expected though.

@natelandau

Awesome job 👍

Absolutely Brilliant Idea

---

Changed myip to ip and added some print:

  alias ip='whoami ; echo -e \ - Public facing IP Address: ; curl ipecho.net/plain ; echo ; echo -e \ - Internal IP Address: ;  ipconfig getifaddr en0'

Displays:

Last login: Tue Apr 25 10:17:25 on ttys001
=======================================================
| ~ @ MBP13 (Marxspawn) 
| => ip
Marxspawn
- Public facing IP Address :
97.124.144.105
- Internal IP Address:
192.168.0.7
=======================================================
| ~ @ MBP13 (Marxspawn) 
| => _

---

Way good bash mash up. But why is the 'which' command giving me multiple identical path assigments i.e.: running 'which node' produces output:

 ~ @ cdb (charlie.brown)
| => which node
node is /usr/local/bin/node
node is /usr/local/bin/node
node is /usr/local/bin/node

This event happened after I implemented your path assignments:

#   Set Paths
#   ------------------------------------------------------------
    export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin/"
    export PATH="/usr/local/git/bin:/sw/bin/:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"

For the "showa" command - the alias reminder.

showa: to remind yourself of an alias (given some part of it)

--
  | # ------------------------------------------------------------
  | showa () { /usr/bin/grep --color=always -i -a1 $@ ~/Library/init/bash/aliases.bash | grep -v '^\s*$' | less -FSRXc ; }

What is the format and what goes into the aliases.bash file?

This thing is great. It made my terminal window so much better and helped me become even faster when using it.

I'd like to ask a question though.
on line 58: cd() { builtin cd "$@"; ll; } # Always list directory contents upon 'cd'
There is this code that is suppose to list directory contents each time you cd.

Although it works for me, I need to do : source ~/.bash_profile each time to have it working. I need to do that with every new terminal window. After that the command is working. Until I do the source ~/.bash_profile the hole bash_profile works just fine except line 58.

I can't figure out what could be causing that inconsistent behavior.

Running brew doctor complains:

Warning: Some directories in your path end in a slash.
Directories in your path should not end in a slash. This can break other
doctor checks. The following directories should be edited:
  /sw/bin/
  /usr/local/
  /usr/local/bin

@natelandau Could you please correct the file?

@katmoon

sudo nano ~/.bash_profile

Remove the ending /'s from PATH
Save the file. Restart terminal.
Then try to run brew doctor again.

@corefile

typing ' alias ' in terminal will display a reminder as well

in extract()
use case $(echo "$1" | tr "[A-Z]" "[a-z]") in instead of case $1 in to also extract files with uppercase extensions

Hi,

This is really great. I get an error from brew, realised that there are couple of / on the end of some of the PATH variables.

Should it read as the default?:

# Set Paths # ------------------------------------------------------------ export PATH="$PATH:/usr/local/bin" export PATH="/usr/local/git/bin:/sw/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:$PATH"

Fantastic, I learned a few things and borrowed a few things.

Awesome!

As per https://askubuntu.com/a/22043 I've added alias sudo='sudo ' to my version as I was running into issues with aliases like editHosts.

great job, thanks

I love it! Thanks!

oh boy, you did a great job, already implemented 1/2 of the ones listed here :)

Great job. Thanks a lot