aliases.sh

# Delimited-data files: no empty columns please
function columnit { column -t $1 | less -S; } 
function tabit { column -t -s $'\t' $1 | less -S; }

#  Delimited-data files: empty columns values are nasty
function columnit-empty { cat $1 | sed -E 's_'$'\t'$'\t''_'$'\t''NA'$'\t''_g' | column -t | less -S; }
function tabit-empty { cat $1 | sed -E 's_'$'\t'$'\t''_'$'\t''NA'$'\t''_g' | column -t -s $'\t' | less -S; }

# Show me the money grep, now
function grep-nobuff { gstdbuf -o0 grep $@; }

# For Picard metric files
function looksee { head -8 $1 | tail -2 | column -t | less -S; } # single row
function looksee2 { tail +7 $1 | column -t | less -S; } # multi-row

# See some progress taring up your data
function tarball { tar cf - $1 -P | pv -s $(($(du -sk $1 | awk '{print $1}') * 1024)) | gzip > $2; }