A little test project to get familiar with creating Ruby CLIs using Thor. It exists to facilitate making aliases for commonly used bash commands.

$ gem install aliasing

Find most frequently used bash commands

$ aliasing most_frequent {history file} {num entries}

-> num entries defaults to 10

Example

$ aliasing most_frequent ~/.bash_history 15

will return most frequently used commands from the current users .bash_history file

Make an alias

(Right, because its so hard to do by yourself...)

$ aliasing make_alias {alias name} {command} {location = ~/.bash_profile}

-> location defaults to ~/.bash_profile unless otherwise specified

Example

$ aliasing make_alias ll "ls -l"

Aliasing will refuse to create an alias for one that an alias name that already exists.

NB: be sure to use quotes for multi-word commands

• document code
• write rspecs
• write cucumber tests for CLI
• more tools for alias management
  • removing an alias by name
  • making suggestions (eg. "bundle exec rake db:migrate" -> "rmigrate", "ssh -i ~/.ssh/mykey.pem" -> "sshmykey")

0.0.1 - Added commands to find the most frequently used bash commands and create aliases in a target file.

MIT