Push aliases to their own file.

aliases

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# General aliases, should only be sourced in interactive shells
+
+# Add an "alert" alias for long running commands.  Use like so:
+#   sleep 10; alert
+alias alert='notify-send --urgency=low -i "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)" "$(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]\s*alert$//'\'')"'
+
+# Cryptsetup alias
+alias luksFormat='sudo cryptsetup luksFormat -s 512 -c aes-xts-plain --use-random -h sha256 -i 5000'
+
+# Colors
+alias ls='ls --color=auto'
+alias grep='grep --color=auto'
+alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
+alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
+
+# Timestamp in a machine-sortable form
+alias tstamp="date '+%Y%m%d-%H%M%S'"

bashrc

@@ -37,13 +37,8 @@ xterm*|rxvt*)
     ;;
 esac
 
-# enable color support of ls and also add handy aliases
 if [ -x /usr/bin/dircolors ]; then
     test -r ~/.dircolors && eval "$(dircolors -b ~/.dircolors)" || eval "$(dircolors -b)"
-    alias ls='ls --color=auto'
-    alias grep='grep --color=auto'
-    alias fgrep='fgrep --color=auto'
-    alias egrep='egrep --color=auto'
 fi
 
 # Bash completion

profile

@@ -32,11 +32,5 @@ unset GPG_AGENT_INFO_PATH
 export GPG_TTY=`tty`
 # End GPG
 
-# Add an "alert" alias for long running commands.  Use like so:
-#   sleep 10; alert
-alias alert='notify-send --urgency=low -i "$([ $? = 0 ] && echo terminal || echo error)" "$(history|tail -n1|sed -e '\''s/^\s*[0-9]\+\s*//;s/[;&|]\s*alert$//'\'')"'
-
-# Cryptsetup alias
-alias luksFormat='sudo cryptsetup luksFormat -s 512 -c aes-xts-plain --use-random -h sha256 -i 5000'
-
-if [ -f $HOME/.localenv ] ; then source $HOME/.localenv ; fi
+if [ -e $HOME/.localenv ] ; then source $HOME/.localenv ; fi
+if [[ $- == *i* ]] && [[ -e $HOME/.aliases ]] ; then source $HOME/.aliases ; fi