Useful bash scripts

by Andrew Boyer

Scripts:

• commit: will execute git add . git commit -m "message" and git push origin master all at once (useful for quickly updating a repository)

  • arg1 = commit message
  • arg2 = files to add
  • arg3 = branch name
  • arg4 = remote name all arguments are optional

  Examples:

  Example #1:

  commit

  executes these commands:

  git add .
  git commit -m "automated commit
  git push origin master

  Example #2:

  commit "edited README" README.md
  

  executes these commands:

  git add README.md
  git commit -m "edited README"
  git push origin master

  Example #3:

  commit "edited main" main.py boyer-dev upstream

  executes these commands:

  git add main.py
  git commit -m "edited main"
  git push upstream boyer-dev

• libclean: will delete the dist build and egg-info directories made when creating a python package (useful for quickly cleaning up enviroment after creating a python package)

• update: will execute sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade (useful for quickly updating and upgrading computer in one command)

Note that chrome, update, and web only run in linux

Using these scripts:

• git clone https://github.com/asboyer2/bash-scripts.git
• add /path/to/bash-scripts/bin to your $PATH variable in your `.bashrc
  • ex: export PATH=/usr/root/bash-scripts/bin:$PATH
• Source your .bashrc using the command . .bashrc