bashrc functions and aliases

.bashrc

# showa: to remind yourself of an alias (given some part of it)
showa () { /usr/bin/grep -i -a1 $@ ~/.aliases.bash | grep -v '^\s*$' ; }

# sourcea: to source this file (to make changes active after editing)
alias sourcea='source ~/.aliases.bash'

# Search current directory (and subdirectories) for files with "word"
function rg(){ grep -rl --exclude=\*/.svn/\* --exclude=\*/.git/\* --exclude=\*.swp $1 * }

# find_larger: find files larger than a certain size (in bytes)
find_larger() { find . -type f -size +${1}c ; }