A Practical .bash_profile for Zero Downtime Migration (ZDM) Hosts
A ZDM host tends to get used in short, frequent bursts — check if the service is up, check a job’s status, tail a log, confirm a wallet credential exists — usually while something else is waiting on the outcome. Typing full zdmcli/zdmservice invocations every time adds friction that’s easy to eliminate with a properly built .bash_profile. This one is built around three things: an always-visible service status in the prompt, one-word shortcuts for the commands used constantly, and functions for the ones used occasionally but painfully without them. ...