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My .aliases file, consisting of general purpose aliases or functions in the first half and (PHP) development in the second half

#
# ~/.aliases
#

alias ins="sudo pacman -S"
alias rem="sudo pacman -R"
alias remd="sudo pacman -Rsnc"
alias up="sudo pacmatic -Syu"
#locate orphan pacnew files
alias pacnew="sudo find /etc/ \( -name \*.pacnew -o -name \*.pacorig -o -name \*.pacsave \)"

alias s="poweroff"
#reset the network adapter by reloading its driver. useful if network misbehaves after resume from suspend
alias netup="sudo modprobe -r r8168 && sudo modprobe r8168"

### UTILS ###
#edit a file
alias ed="setsid medit"
alias edit="setsid medit"
#edit a file as root
function sedit {
 (sudo medit "$1" &)
}

#boot to EFI Setup, indispensible when fastboot is active, as you can't get into EFI Setup by holding a key pressed
alias firmware="systemctl reboot --firmware-setup"

#rip audio off youtube and save it in the current directory
alias dl="youtube-dl -x --audio-format 'm4a' "
alias dlmp3="youtube-dl -x --audio-format 'mp3' "

#DEVELOPMENT HELPERS
#--------------------------------------
#handy for uses like 'ap restart', 'ap stop', 'ap start'
alias ap="sudo apachectl"

#HOSTS file manipulation

#view hosts content
function vhost(){
  echo --------------------------------------------
  cat /etc/hosts
  echo
  echo --------------------------------------------
	
}

#swap hosts files, handy for working locally on dev domains, 
#then switching to real domains to test the deploy live

function chost {
  set -e # stop running if we encounter an error
#at first run simply creata a copy of the existing hosts file.
# the new file should be edited and 127.0.0.1 devdomain.com lines should be added to it
# apache should also be configured to handle these domains
  if [[ ! -f  /etc/hostssecondary ]]; then
      sudo \cp /etc/hosts /etc/hostssecondary
	  return
  fi  
  
  sudo \mv -f /etc/hosts /etc/hoststempname
  sudo \mv -f /etc/hostssecondary /etc/hosts
  sudo \mv -f /etc/hoststempname /etc/hostssecondary
  set +e
  
  echo --------------------------------------------
  cat /etc/hosts
  echo
  echo --------------------------------------------
}

#Toggle xdebug on or off (xdebug on slows down php development)
#rotates 2 ini files, one of them having 'zend_extension=xdebug' commented out
#Both files contain this on a line: 
#/   XDEBUG OFF     /# or #/   XDEBUG ON     /# 
#so the script finds this line and outputs it so you know if it's on or off

function xdebug {
  set -e # stop running if we encounter an error
  if [[  -f  /work/LAMPP/.config/php.ini.alt ]]; then      
	mv -f /work/LAMPP/.config/php.ini     /work/LAMPP/.config/php.ini.tmp
	mv -f /work/LAMPP/.config/php.ini.alt    /work/LAMPP/.config/php.ini
	mv -f /work/LAMPP/.config/php.ini.tmp   /work/LAMPP/.config/php.ini.alt
	set +e
    echo --------------------------------------------
	echo
	cat /work/LAMPP/.config/php.ini | grep "#/   XDEBUG"
	echo
	echo restarting apache...
	ap restart
	echo done
	echo -------------------------------------------- 
  fi  
 
}
#function to quickly create a database, a corresponding user and grant access to the database to that user
function mkdb() {
echo
if [ 2 -gt  $# ] ;then 
echo "mkdb - invalid parameters"
echo "** usage: mkdb database_name [user_name] password"
echo "** if user_name is not specified database_name will be used also for user_name"
else
	db_name=$1

	if [ $# -gt 2 ]
	then
		user_name=$2
		pass=$3
	else
		user_name=$1
		pass=$2
	fi

	echo
	echo "Creating database '$db_name' and user '$user_name' and granting access to database to the new user."
	
	mysql -u root  --execute="CREATE USER IF NOT EXISTS '$user_name'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '$pass';GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO '$user_name'@'localhost' REQUIRE NONE WITH MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR 0 MAX_USER_CONNECTIONS 0;CREATE DATABASE IF NOT EXISTS $db_name;GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON $db_name.* TO '$user_name'@'localhost';"
fi
echo 
}

function dbimport(){
	echo
	echo "******* Import DB Script ********"
	if [ 2 -gt  $# ] ;then 
		echo "** ${FUNCNAME[0]} - invalid parameters"
		echo "** usage: ${FUNCNAME[0]} {database_name} {file_to_import.sql}"
	else
		db_name=$1
		file_name=$2
		if [ -f $file_name  ]
		then			
			echo
			echo "Importing file into database '$db_name'"
			mysql -u root -p $db_name < $file_name
		else
			echo "Invalid file: $file_name"
		fi	
	fi
	echo 	
}
#dumps the content of a database to a file named {database_name}.sql in the current working folder
function dump(){
	mysqldump -u root $1 > $1.sql
}
alias showdb="mysql -uroot -p --execute='show databases'"
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