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Bash Function to search through your Bash Aliases and Functions and display helpful text in the prompt.
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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 "^#.*$*"
}
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EvanLovely commented Sep 4, 2013

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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

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EvanLovely commented Sep 4, 2013

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

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