Snippets

Useful shell extensions

# remove SVN files recursivly script
alias remove-svn-files="find . -name .svn -print0 | xargs -0 rm -r"

# shutdown scripts
alias reboot="sudo shutdown -R now"

# make external monitor primary
alias switchmonitor="xrandr --output CRT1 --primary"

# clear recent files
alias rfd="rm ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel"

# quick maven gwt
alias mvnq="mvn clean install -DskipTests -Dgwt.compiler.skip=true"

# git clean up
alias gitclean="git clean -d -f"
alias gitreset="git reset --hard"

# alias list files and directory size
alias listsize="du -hs * .[^.]*"

# unpack tar.gz
tar -zxvf backup.tar.gz

#search for string in files (recursive)
grep -ri "word" .