command-manager

Manage your projects using bash aliases or functions

About

OK so how command-manager can help me?

Features

Very easy usage as normal aliases and shell variables
Syncing aliases
Support remote alias across different hosts

Usage

$ cm <command> [<parameter..>]

Installation

Put something like this in your $HOME/.bashrc or $HOME/.zshrc:

. /path/to/cm.sh

Reload new settings. If you don't know how then just close and open new terminal. Run cm command to confirm command is working. You should see help page.

Examples

Imagine you have 2 web projects foo and bar. For each one you have common task to do but in different way. Like each of this projects lives in different server. You obiously set ssh keys with agent and ~/.ssh/config so you can quckly ssh to them with ssh foo and ssh bar. Both projects lives in different directories, foo in /var/www/vhosts/foo.areo/publich_html/ and bar in /var/www/bar/app/. Additionally bar contain files directory inside project path under sites/default/files/ and foo doesn't, but have special cofnig file you editing very often.

You can simply set following commands on your host and remote machine (am is command-manager command):

We assuming foo is your project name, of course it can be anything else like single a, it's up to you how you name it.

First we want initialized project

$ cm init foo
Managment for project *foo* initialized.
Project *foo* set.

Then we'll create first simple command..

$ cm add ssh='ssh john@123.234.1.2 -p 50683'
Alias created: foo.ssh

Nothing special. With simple bash alias I can do it as well, and also we could create ~/.ssh/config entry. But we can adding more and more stuff relatead to our project and keep it under project name foo.*

What's next.. let's create project relatead variable BASE

$ cm add-path BASE=/var/www/vhosts/foo.areo
(foo) Path added: BASE=/var/www/vhosts/foo.areo

This variable will be remember for whole project and we can use it whenever and wherever we want.

So let do it in next alias foo.public. This will create this alias for you on remote foo host with some description.

$ cm add-remote public='cd {{BASE}}/public_html/' --desc='CD to main publich_html/'
foo: Remote alias created: CD to main publich_html/

Add remote foo.files alias

$ cm add-remote files='cd {{BASE}}/public_html/sites/default/files'
Remote alias created
foo.files='cd {{BASE}}/public_html/sites/default/files'

Now list all foo commands

$ cm list foo
Aliases for *foo* project
 foo.ssh='ssh foo'
 foo.public='cd {{BASE}}/public_html/'  "CD to main publich_html/" (REMOTE)
 foo.files='cd {{BASE}}/public_html/sites/default/files' (REMOTE)

Aliases paths
 foo.BASE=/var/www/vhosts/foo.areo

This will also work without project name because is already SET using init.

$ cm list
Aliases for *foo* project
 foo.ssh='ssh foo'
 foo.public='cd {{BASE}}/public_html/'  "CD to main publich_html/" (REMOTE)
 foo.files='cd {{BASE}}/public_html/sites/default/files' (REMOTE)

Aliases paths
 foo.BASE=/var/www/vhosts/foo.areo

When you try do anything with project that doesn't exist then error will occur..

$ cm list bar
Project *bar* doesn't exist: Error

So now for bar project you can do similar things..

$ cm init bar
Alias managment for project *bar* initialized.
Project *bar* set.

First add path to project

$ cm add-path BASE=/var/www/projects/bar
(bar) Path added: BASE=/var/www/projects/bar

Next add quick jump to it

$ cm add cd='cd {{BASE}}'
Alias created: bar.cd='cd {{BASE}}' ('cd /var/www/projects/bar')

As command-manager is aware of project we working on it's know BASE refer to project bar not foo.

Little more complicated example. We'll reuse our alias to work with another alias.

$ cm add pull='[[cd]]; git pull'
Alias created: bar.cd ()

List all projects

$ cm list-projects
Projects:
 foo

List of all avaiable commands

cm init <project_name> # Init project
cm destroy <project_name> # Remove project with all aliases and vars (ask [y/n])
cm list # list all projects
cm set <project_name> # Switch to another project
cm list <project_name> # List all project aliases and variables
cm list <project_name> alias # List all project aliases ONLY
cm list <project_name> vars # List all project variables ONLY
cm add <alias_name> # Add local alias
cm rename <alias_name> # Rename existing alias
cm remove <alias_name> # Remove alias from current project  (ask [y/n])
cm add-remote <alias_name> # Add alias on your remote machine
cm remove-remote <alias_name> # Remove alias on your remote machine  (ask [y/n])

This will list you all avaiable aliases (without vars) in your <project_name>. Same as in bash completion for all your system commands and aliases.

$ <project_name>.[2xTAB]

If you have some other stuff to do on another box with the same project you can set something like this

$ cm add-remote --box=foo-box2 dostuff='cd /path/to/somewere && git branch'