Bash Function to search through your Bash Aliases and Functions and display helpful text in the prompt.

search-bash-aliases.sh

# search bash aliases
sba() {
  cat ~/.bash_aliases | grep -i -A 1 "^#.*$*"
  cat ~/.bash_aliases | grep -i -B 1 "^alias.*$*"
  cat ~/.bash_functions | grep -i -A 1 "^#.*$*"
}

Works when your file looks like this:

#copy output of last command to clipboard
alias cl="fc -e -|pbcopy"

# Gist
alias gist="jist"

# QuickLook
alias ql="qlmanage -p &>/dev/null"

I would like it to work when I have several under a header like this:

# ls better
alias la="ls -aF"
alias ld="ls -ld"
alias ll="ls -l"
alias lt='ls -At1 && echo "------Oldest--"'
alias ltr='ls -Art1 && echo "------Newest--"'

Hat tip to Brett Terpstra for some of the aliases

I would also like it if one could retrieve multi-line comments before a function/alias.