Docker Compose alias for powerful configuration

dc

#!/usr/bin/env bash
[ -z "$DC_EXECUTABLE" ] && DC_EXECUTABLE=docker-compose
[ -z "$DC_PATH" ] && DC_PATH=.:./dev/bin:./dev/docker/bin
for p in $(echo ${DC_PATH} | tr ":" " "); do
    if [ -x "${p}/${DC_EXECUTABLE}" ]; then
        ${p}/${DC_EXECUTABLE} "$@"
        exit $?
    fi
done
docker-compose "$@"

docker-compose

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# this file exists in your repo as an executable. You could run this as ./docker-compose {args}

up() {
    # run any pre up scripts
    
    docker-compose up -d "$@"

    # run any post up scripts
}

if [[ $1 =~ ^(up)$ ]]; then 
    $1 "${@:2}"
else
    docker-compose "$@"
fi

Like most programmers, you have 80% of the job done and just walk away. In order to install dc:

curl -o /usr/local/bin/dc https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ragboyjr/2d5d77e21ebc8d920ff8224575b1e4ba/raw/0b8352dbb2ab172739b73791a9724d2b6a0ffd99/dc && chmod +x /usr/local/bin/dc