alehouse

My custom zsh-plugin for zsh inspired by betterbrew.

alehouse-zsh-plugin contains short aliases for homebrew commands. For now I just have the ones from my personal .aliases file and those from betterbrew.

The latest update adds the functionality to cd to various Homebrew locations on the filesystem using hash -d. To use just cd to its hash with ~ preceding the hash. Example:

$ cd ~taps
/usr/local/Homebrew/Library/Taps

If you have the autocd option enabled, you can simple enter the folders name with the ~ as a prefix to make things even faster!

$ ~brche
~/Library/Caches/Homebrew

This plugin is for my personal use and is always a work in progress. Feel free to use it, and dont be afraid make suggestions or offer any corrections to any mistakes you might find!

Example

Without typing full homebrew commands in console, like:

$ brew install zsh --build-from-source

there is more convenient alias:

$ bifs zsh

Installation

Installation of Alehouse is super easy! I have instructions listed below for use with oh-my-zsh. Otherwise clone this repo somewhere on your systeem, source the alehouse-plugin.zsh in your zshrc and restart your shell (source ~/.zshrc) to begin using!

oh-my-zsh

1. Go to oh-my-zsh plugins directory:

$ cd ~/.oh-my-zsh/custom/plugins

2. Clone the repository into a new directory alehouse :

git clone https://github.com/sticklerm3/alehouse-zsh-plugin.git alehouse

3. Enable alehouse plugin by adding to your .zshrc configuration file:

$ plugins=(alehouse)

4. Restart your shell.

$ source ~/.zshrc

Usage

To see a list of all available aliases just type alias into your terminal prompt.

Brew every day

The best part of waking up is having shortcuts in your cup! Some of my most used examples are listed below!

alias	command
bs	brew search
bsd	brew search --desc
bi	brew info*
bis	brew install
cask	brew cask
ci	cask info
cis	cask install
brewup	brew -v update && brew -v upgrade && brew cask upgrade && brew -v cleanup --prune=5 && brew doctor

Cask Tools

Name	Usage	Description
tokenizer	tokenizer path/to/app	Finds the token for an application to name and create a cask.
findappcast	findappcast path/to/app	Finds appcast information for the given app, if available

All Aliases

My additions

Alias	Command
bi	brew info\*
bis	brew install
brdr	brew doctor
brls	brew list
bs	brew search
bsd	brew search --desc
cask	brew cask
ci	brew cask info
cis	brew cask install
cus	brew cask uninstall
cuz	brew cask zap
blv	brew leaves

• bi currently conflicts with the bundler package currently included with omz. Comment this out if you prefer to use that one.

betterbrew aliases

aliases that are crossed out have been removed.

betterbrew	Command
binst	brew install
buinst	brew uninstall
bupd	brew update
blst	brew list
bsrch	brew search
banal	brew analytics
bcat	brew cat
bclean	brew cleanup
bcom	brew command
bcoms	brew commands
bcon	brew config
bdeps	brew deps
bdesc	brew desc
bdiy	brew diy
bdoc	brew doctor
bfetch	brew fetch
bgist	brew gist-logs
bhome	brew home
binfo	brew info
bleaves	brew leaves
bln	brew ln
blog	brew log
bmig	brew migrate
bmiss	brew missing
bopt	brew options
bout	brew outdated
bpin	brew pin
bpinst	brew postinstall
bprune	brew prune
bread	brew readall
brinst	brew reinstall
bsh	brew sh
bstyle	brew style
bswitch	brew switch
btap	brew tap
btapinfo	brew tap-info
btappin	brew tap-pin
btapunpin	brew tap-unpin
bulink	brew unlink
bupack	brew unpack
bupin	brew unpin
butap	brew untap
bupdr	brew update-reset
bupgr	brew upgrade
buses	brew uses
bcache	brew --cache
bcell	brew --cellar
benv	brew --env
bprefix	brew --prefix
brepo	brew --repository
bver	brew --version

Hashes

Name	Location
brewr	brew --repo
brpfx	brew --prefix
taps	brew --taps
cellar	brew --cellar
caskroom	brew --caskroom
brche	brew --cache

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To-do:

• replace alias for brew prune as its been deprecated.
• re-organize cheatsheet to be sorted by category.