Updated: as Blaxter notes, it’s necessary to open a new terminal after editing the bashrc file for the changes to take effect. Also, I’ve replaced the tail -n+2 with the -ss option. Thanks Baron Schwartz!

One of the things I’ve been doing lately is doing some cleanup on my laptop.

There are two things I’m constantly using on the shell:

• Open a project folder
• Connect to a MySQL Database

Bash Functions

I first made a bash function to help me with the projects paths:

function cdp {
case $1 in
  "foo")
    cd /Users/golo/devel/svn/foo/src ;;
  "bar")
    cd /Users/golo/devel/svn/bar/src ;;
  *)
    echo "Options:"
    echo ""
    echo "  foo"
    echo "  bar"
esac
}

I placed that on my /etc/bashrc , so I write:

$ …

This wenesday I’ll be at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2009 as speaker :):

koke and me will show how ANSTE can be used to test the MySQL Cluster.

ANSTE is a testing tool for complex scenarios. It allows to run tests loading some virtual machines, configuring it’s network interfaces and runing some scripts on them.