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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 ../../../../../..'
$ posh /home/ramrachum/Dropbox/notes.txt
$DX/notes.txt
I use this a lot in all of my scripts. Basically whenever any of my script prints a path, it passes it through `posh`.
> alphabet just prints the English alphabet in upper and lowercase. I use this surprisingly often (probably about once a month) I genuinely wonder, why would anyone want to use this, often?
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…
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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
Atuin is new to me! https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin Discussed 4 months ago: Atuin – Magical Shell History https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44364186 - June 2025, 71 comments
I had youtube and serveit and some others, but pasta is really good, thanks!
python3 -m http.server 1337
Then I turned it into an alias, called it "serveit" and tweeted about it. And now I see it as a bash script, made a little bit more robust in case python is not installed :)
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 can't say I relate at all (5 years of experience). They'll have to pry my 1000-line .zshrc from my cold, dead hands. For example, zsh-autosuggestions improves my quality of life so ridiculously much it's not even funny.
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When I had one nix computer, I wanted to customize it heavily. Now I have many nix computers and I want them consistent and with only the most necessary packages installed.
Besides many nix computers I also have wife, dog, children, chores, shopping to be done. Unlike when I was young engineer I could stay all night fiddling with bash scripts and environments.