Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

Post by kelvinjps10 » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 7:40 PM UTC

giraffe_lady wrote: post #5

wiether wrote: post #4

It's been a while since I haven't read something as useful! There also some very niche stuff that I won't use but found funny

The nato phonetic alphabet one cracked me up. My dude you don't need that, call center employees don't know it, just say S as in Sugar like ur grandma used to.

Post by o11c » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 7:46 PM UTC

  #!/bin/sh
  if test "$#" != 2
  then
      echo 'Error: unmv must have exactly 2 arguments'
      exit 1
  fi
  exec mv "$2" "$1"

Post by revicon » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 7:55 PM UTC

Post by vunderba » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 8:03 PM UTC

revicon wrote: post #55

I have a bunch of little scripts and aliases I've written over the years, but none are used more than these... alias ..='cd ..' alias ...='cd ../..' alias ....='cd ../../..' alias .....='cd ../../../..' alias ......='cd ../../../../..' alias .......='cd ../../../../../..'

Post by heyitsguay » Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 8:07 PM UTC

chis wrote: post #46

oceanplexian wrote: post #10

It's weird how the circle of life progresses for a developer or whatever. - When I was a fresh engineer I used a pretty vanilla shell environment - When I got a year or two of experience, I wrote tons of scripts and bash aliases and had a 1k+ line .bashrc the same as OP - Now, as a more tenured engineer (15 years of experience), I basically just want a vanilla shell with zero distractions, aliases or scripts and use…

I think it's more likely to say that this comes from a place of laziness than some enlightened peak. (I say this as someone who does the same, and is lazy). When I watch the work of coworkers or friends who have gone these rabbit holes of customization I always learn some interesting new tools to use - lately I've added atuin, fzf, and a few others to my linux install