mpdunne / cralias

A set of useful aliases and functions for bash

Cralias - a set of useful aliases for bash

Cralias and Cralias Bio are alias sets for a unix shell.

Cralias is a set of useful commands for the terminal, such as live file lists (vk), easy sandboxing (sand) and quick uniq (unik), among many many others.

Cralias Bio is a set of useful terminal commands for biologists, featuring a sample sequence generator (ranseq*) and fasta file viewers (flatfa, flal, flil), among others.

If you have any suggestions for cralias commands, let me know!

Installation and requirements

Add source /path/to/cralias/cralias*sh to your bashrc to use cralias! Information on each individual alias and function is included in the comments of each file.

Some systems may be not have all required functions built in. For full functionality;

• Make sure watch is installed (e.g. brew install watch on Mac)
• Make sure column is installed (e.g. on linux might need to do apt install util-linux and/or apt install bsdmainutils).
• If using zsh or a Mac, install gfind using brew install findutils.