Aeleus

Simple application for adding new bash aliases on the fly.

Installation

Crystal Build

If you don't have the Crystal language installed, please see how to install Crystal.

$ git clone https://github.com/nucleogenesis/aeleus
$ cd aeleus
$ crystal build aeleus.cr

This will create a binary file called aeleus.

You can place this anywhere you'd like - but it would be best placed somewhere in your PATH. Usually, this is somewhere like /usr/local/bin. In any case, you want to have that aeleus binary in a place where you can call it from your console. If you want to make one last manual alias, you can add alias aeleus="/path/to/aeleus" to your .bashrc or .bash_aliases file.

Packaged Installations

I may decide later on to create a package but it is relatively easy to build. I may also just have a built binary ready for download in the future.

Usage

Aeleus is a simple program that lets you create new aliases quickly without having to open your .bashrc or .bash_aliases (or whatever file you use) to edit it.

Aeleus has the following flags:

-f FILE, --to=FILE               Exact full path to the file where you want aliases added. (eg, /home/user/.bashrc) DEFAULT=~/.bash_aliases
-a ALIAS, --alias=ALIAS          The alias name that you want to apply the command to.
-c COMMAND, --command=COMMAND    The command that you want to alias. If your command has spaces, put it between double-quotes. (eg, aelius -a sshproduction -x "ssh -i ~/.ssh/key user@domain")

Adding a new alias to ~/.bash_aliases

The default file is ~/.bash_aliases - if it doesn't exist, Aeleus will create it. (NOTE: If Aeleus creates the file, you may still have to ensure that it is loaded when you open your console)

The following command:

aeleus -a sshdev -c "ssh -i /path/to/keyfile user@dev-server.xyz"

Will append:

alias sshdev="ssh -i /path/to/keyfile user@dev-server.xyz"

to the end of your ~/.bash_aliases file.

When your command has a space in it, you MUST put it in double quotes. If it doesn't have a space, the quotes are not required.

Adding a new alias to another file (ie, ~/.bashrc)

aeleus -f ~/.bashrc -a killngnix -c "systemctl stop nginx" will add alias killnginx="systemctl stop nginx" to your ~/.bashrc.

Note: You can have any file after the -f flag as long as you have permissions to access it.

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