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Avoiding Shell Hell: Aliases to the rescue

Avoiding Shell Hell: Aliases to the rescue

Aliases are a hack to developer productivity. Developers spend a couple of time typing long commands from Git to Docker and Kubernetes when these could be aliased saving us the time to achieve more. In this talk, I will expand on the tips and tricks developers can apply to achieve more in less time. Presented at forLoop Lagos Summit

Chiamaka Ikeanyi

March 08, 2019
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  1. Avoiding Shell Hell: Aliases to the rescue Lagos Summit 2019

    | Chiamaka Ikeanyi March 8, 2019 @ Zone Tech Park, Gbagada
  2. Why are aliases important? @chiamakaikeanyi • Spend less time typing

    • Reduce the chances of typos in a long command • The secret to speeding up your terminal workflow
  3. @chiamakaikeanyi Consider this Scenario Client 1 Website You $ kubectl

    get pods | grep $podName $ kubectl logs $podName $ kubectl exec -it $podName bash Client 2
  4. Aliases instruct the shell to replace one string with another

    when executing commands. @chiamakaikeanyi
  5. • Git • Docker • Kubernetes • . . .

    Popular usage @chiamakaikeanyi
  6. gac "Fix filters" gpo patch/filters git add . git commit

    -m "Fix filters" git push origin patch/filters Works Smart Works Hard
  7. nano ~/.zshrc open ~/.zshrc code ~/.zshrc alias @chiamakaikeanyi Accessing your

    Aliases NB: Substitute .zshrc with the shell you’re using - .bashrc or .bash_profile ...
  8. Tomorrow is mystery But you can save time By using

    Aliases - Chiamaka Ikeanyi @chiamakaikeanyi Yesterday is history