Utilities for Gentoo Linux

Quick Start

To install, download the file 'gentoo_utils.sh' and put into /etc/profile.d/.

Usage

Aliases

• ll - list files in long listing format
• today - show current date in 'yyyy-mm-dd' format
• now - show current time in 'yyyymmddHHMMSS' format
• top - use 'htop' instead of 'top' if available

In addition, '-i' was added to command 'cp', 'mv' and 'rm', in order to avoid wrongly overwriting.

Functions

• emerge_sync - download latest portage tree of gentoo
• emerge_upgrade - upgrade all packages in system
• emerge_monitor - monitor emerge log files
• emerge_log - show history (with date) of emerge
• emerge_cleanup - clean up old packages