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Learn keyboard shortcuts to edit the current command line and you'll save years of your life.
ESC-. (dot) will get the last argument of the last command. This one alone will save you months.
CTRL-R will search backwards. This other will save more months.
I've really taken a shine to using a real file manager with lots of nifty features without any bloat.
No mentions of https://github.com/jarun/nnn yet? I've really taken a shine to using a real file manager with lots of nifty features without any bloat.
I upvoted for this alone: Another neat short hand is !$ which is an alias for the last argument of the previous command. This can be handy if one creates a new directory and wants to change into it without typing the the directory again. So commands would be mkdir -p make/new/directory cd !$ You've no idea how many years I've been thinking "This is Linux fer gawd's sake. Surely there must be some easy way to make a n…
I upvoted for this alone: Another neat short hand is !$ which is an alias for the last argument of the previous command. This can be handy if one creates a new directory and wants to change into it without typing the the directory again. So commands would be mkdir -p make/new/directory cd !$ You've no idea how many years I've been thinking "This is Linux fer gawd's sake. Surely there must be some easy way to make a n…
In zsh, you use -> % take which makes the dir and cd's into it.
¹ https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/blob/master/lib/functions...
> alias u="cd .."
And on Dvorak, "u" is under the left index finger. Can't get faster than that ;)
https://github.com/junegunn/fzf also has a “cd mode”, by default triggerable using Alt-C, which can be useful.
- I define "cdn" to be what others call "mkcd", as then if I have a command line "cd foo" and it tells me that foo doesn't exist, I can just add the 'n' to the previous entry. I also overload "cdn" so that when not given any argument, it goes into the newest subdirectory in the current directory.
- "u", "uu", "uuu", "uuuu", "uuuuu" for going "up" that many levels, and unlike the aliases in OP, I define them as functions and if those are given an argument, they descends into the path from there: "u foo" is equivalent to "cd ../foo", "uu foo" to "cd ../../foo".
- I also have a function called "mvcd foo bar" that moves foo to bar and then goes into bar. "mvcdnewdir foo bar" that does the same but will create bar. (I'm pondering unifying them to a version that always calls mkdir -p)
- an alias "c" for cd [2]. The single letter messes with the history search though (ctl-r c space or ctl-r cd space ?), so it's not necessarily a good idea. `shopt -s autocd` that I just learned about here may be better.
- some functions for special locations, "cs" for ~/scratch, "cb" for ~/bookmarks, etc.
[1] see .bashrc at https://github.com/pflanze/chj-home [2] but I never use bash's "alias" since aside of being shorter it is always worse than a function (no way to extend it later to take parameters, and messes up live redefinitions)