some people on the net already use a cd(), but most of them break 'cd -' functionality,

that is "go back where you have been previosly", or 'cd' which is "go back home".

This cd() copes with that. Also when given a file name, go to the directory where this file is in.

cd()

{

if [[ -n ${*} ]]

then

if [[ s${*}e == s-e ]]

then

builtin cd -

elif [[ ! -d ${*} ]]

then

builtin cd "${*%/*}"

else

builtin cd "${*}"

fi

else

builtin cd ~

fi

ls -la

}

many have aliases like:

alias ...="cd ../../"

alias ....="cd ../../../"

and so furth.

..() mitigates to need for those aliases, see sample output for an example

# .. -> go up 1 directory

# .. 4 -> go up 4 directories

..()

{

local DIR=''

declare -i NUM=0

if [[ ${1} =~ ^[1-9][0-9]*$ ]]

then

while (( ${NUM} < ${1:-1} ))

do

DIR="${DIR}../"

NUM=$(( ${NUM} + 1 ))

done

else

DIR=..

fi

cd "${DIR}"

}

Thanks to the great grml team for this func!

You really should look at their shell configs for further usefull things!

http://git.grml.org/?p=grml-etc-core.git;a=blob_plain;f=etc/grml/script-functions;h=4d6bcea8f9beae83abd08f44155d299ea54a4a9f;hb=HEAD

# {{{ check for availability of program(s)

# usage example:

# check4progs [-s,-q,--quiet,--silent] arg [arg .... argn]

#

# with option given either of:

# -s,-q,--quiet,--silent

#

# check for available progs but produce no output

check4progs() {

[ -n "${ZSH_VERSION}" ] && emulate -L sh

local RTN=0

local oldifs="${IFS}"

local ARG d found

local VERBOSE=1

case ${1} in

-q | -s | --quiet | --silent)

VERBOSE=0

shift 1

;;

*)

;;

esac

while [ $# -gt 0 ]

do

ARG="$1"

shift

found=0

IFS=:

for d in $PATH

do

if [ -x "${d}/${ARG}" ]

then

found=1

break

fi

done

IFS="${oldifs}"

# check for availability

if [ ${found} -eq 0 ]

then

if [ ${VERBOSE} -eq 1 ]

then

printf "%s: binary not found\n" "${ARG}" >&2

fi

RTN=1

fi

done

# return non zero, if at least one prog is missing!

return $RTN

}

# }}}

shopt-set()

{

declare -i RTN=0

local ARG=''

while (( ${#} > 0 ))

do

ARG="${1}"

shift 1

if ! builtin shopt -s "${ARG}" 1>/dev/null 2>&1

then

RTN=1

fi

done

return ${RTN}

}

Actually your func will find both files and directorys that contain ${1}.

This one only find files.

..and to look only for dirs:

finddir() { find . -type d -iname "*${*}*" ; }

David thanks for that grep inside!

here is mine version:

psgrep()

{

case ${1} in

( -E | -e )

local EXTENDED_REGEXP=1

shift 1

;;

*)

local EXTENDED_REGEXP=0

;;

esac

if [[ -z ${*} ]]

then

echo "psgrep - grep for process(es) by keyword" >&2

echo "Usage: psgrep [-E|-e] ... " >&2

echo "" >&2

echo "option [-E|-e] enables full extended regexp support" >&2

echo "without [-E|-e] plain strings are looked for" >&2

return 1

fi

\ps -eo 'user,pid,pcpu,command' w | head -n1

local ARG=''

if (( ${EXTENDED_REGEXP} == 0 ))

then

while (( ${#} > 0 ))

do

ARG="${1}"

shift 1

local STRING=${ARG}

local LENGTH=$(expr length ${STRING})

local FIRSCHAR=$(echo $(expr substr ${STRING} 1 1))

local REST=$(echo $(expr substr ${STRING} 2 ${LENGTH}))

\ps -eo 'user,pid,pcpu,command' w | grep "[${FIRSCHAR}]${REST}"

done

else

\ps -eo 'user,pid,pcpu,command' w | grep -iE "(${*})"

fi

}

Function that searchs for process by its name:

* Shows the Header for reference

* Hides the process 'grep' from the list

* Case sensitive

The typical problem with using "ps | grep" is that the grep process shows up the in the output.

The usual solution is to search for "[p]attern" instead of "pattern".

This function turns the parameter into just such a [p]attern.

.

It looks for files that contains the given word as parameter.

* case insensitive

* matches files containing the given word.

Yo run the `nohist` command and after that the commands won't get stored in the history file for the current session.

This makes no permanent changes.

Function that searchs a process by its name and shows in the terminal.

* Shows the Header for reference

* Hides the process 'grep' from the list

* Case sensitive

Similar to entering a command, but will not erase the command from the command line.

Basically a shortcut from entering command, then pushing the up arrow key.

Draw a telephone keyboard, using just a shell built-in command.

seems a useless command ...

In the field, I needed to script a process to scan a specific vendor devices in the network. With the help of nmap, I got all the devices of that particular vendor, and started a scripted netcat session to download configuration files from a tftp server.

This is the nmap loop (part of the script). You can however, add another pipe with grep to filter the vendor/manufacturer devices only. If want to check the whole script, check in http://pastebin.com/ju7h4Xf4

Use this command to watch apache access logs in real time to see what pages are getting hit.

count all the lines of code in specific directory recursively

in this case only *.php

can be *.*

grep for specific function invocations in this case, wither "emit" or "on" with "leader".

from a svn repo, print a log, with diff, of each commit touching a given file

Count how many times a pattern is present into a file. It can be one or more lines. No overlapping. It means searching for aa on aaa will output 1 not 2.

Count how many times a pattern is present into a stream. It can be one or more lines. No overlapping. It means searching for aa on aaa will output 1 not 2.

Turns out smacie.com has a text file containing every single one of the borat quotes, each one on a newline. This makes it very convenient, as this can be done without any sed-parsing, and uses less bandwitdth!

Note that borate quotes are quite offensive, much more so than "fortunes-off"!