Any thoughts on this command? Does it work on your machine? Can you do the same thing with only 14 characters?
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source "~/bin/database-functions.bash"
This helps to keep your shell environment lean, because otherwise you might end up including a ton of code that you almost never use. Another option is to make each function a shell script in its own file and save them in ~/bin. You can add that directory to your $PATH variable, again in ~/.profile, withecho 'PATH="${PATH}:$HOME/bin"' >>~/.profile
Once this is done and you've logged in again, scripts in your ~/bin directory that have been made executable withchmod u+x ~/bin/"$script_name"
will be available to be used like other system commands. This would let you use parameters in the same way as a shell script.some_very_long_and_complex_command # UR tail-f ~/cache/ubuntuone/log/syncdaemon.log