Show HN: Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating shell functions
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Re: Show HN: Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating shell functions
#2This looks very cool. I use shell aliases heavily on all my devices and try to avoid typing out the same one-liners more than once or twice when possible.
Re: Show HN: Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating shell functions
#3Not to be confused with the redo build system[0]
Re: Show HN: Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating shell functions
#4This looks very cool. I use shell aliases heavily on all my devices and try to avoid typing out the same one-liners more than once or twice when possible.
Thank you! Currently the software is very much alpha, so some bugs are expected. I also use shell aliases a lot, though redo is currently not creating aliases but shell functions. In the future I want to add support for creating actual aliases as well instead of shell functions. A simple solution would be to not create a function but an actual alias and chain the commands with &&, this would work but then you lose the power to edit the function and for example have arguments to some commands and not to others.
Re: Show HN: Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating shell functions
#5I use this https://github.com/erichs/composure which seems to do more.
Re: Show HN: Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating shell functions
#6Very cool
Re: Show HN: Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating shell functions
#7Currently, I'll append a comment to a frequently used command for easy searching from my history. For a simple example, I can access `git diff -w ; git diff -w --cached # gitdiff` by pressing Ctrl+R and typing `# gitd`.
For commands I use frequently or that are clunky to maintain as one-liners, I'll convert them into functions in my bashrc.
This seems like the best of both worlds in many ways, or at least is a great third option to have.
Re: Show HN: Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating shell functions
#8Currently, I'll append a comment to a frequently used command for easy searching from my history. For a simple example, I can access `git diff -w ; git diff -w --cached # gitdiff` by pressing Ctrl+R and typing `# gitd`. For commands I use frequently or that are clunky to maintain as one-liners, I'll convert them into functions in my bashrc. This seems like the best of both worlds in many ways, or at least is a great…
Interesting way of aliasing right from where you use it! I actually replaced my default shell history search with fuzzy search using (https://github.com/junegunn/fzf), I can highly recommend it!
Re: Show HN: Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating shell functions
#9Currently, I'll append a comment to a frequently used command for easy searching from my history. For a simple example, I can access `git diff -w ; git diff -w --cached # gitdiff` by pressing Ctrl+R and typing `# gitd`. For commands I use frequently or that are clunky to maintain as one-liners, I'll convert them into functions in my bashrc. This seems like the best of both worlds in many ways, or at least is a great…
Interesting way of aliasing right from where you use it! I actually replaced my default shell history search with fuzzy search using ( https://github.com/junegunn/fzf ), I can highly recommend it!
Huh, apparently I've already starred that. It must have been posted on HN at some point.
Re: Show HN: Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating shell functions
#10Currently, I'll append a comment to a frequently used command for easy searching from my history. For a simple example, I can access `git diff -w ; git diff -w --cached # gitdiff` by pressing Ctrl+R and typing `# gitd`. For commands I use frequently or that are clunky to maintain as one-liners, I'll convert them into functions in my bashrc. This seems like the best of both worlds in many ways, or at least is a great…
Interesting, I think there’s a shopt that I’m missing. When I append a comment, it’s not recorded in bash history, as I’d expect.