Everybody has some piece of software/code on his *nix system that is either cool/ a quality of life improvement/ or just really usefull. I'd like to see some of your favorites.
Ask HN: What are the Linux Tools/Scripts you don't want to live without anymore?
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Re: Ask HN: What are the Linux Tools/Scripts you don't want to live without anymore?
#2`up`, a small Bash function I once wrote. It allows you to walk up the directory tree by passing it a path or the number of levels you would like to walk up.
Has served me well in Java in projects with deep directory trees (due to deep package hierarchies).
Re: Ask HN: What are the Linux Tools/Scripts you don't want to live without anymore?
#3i have an alias for pwd | pbcopy which basically copies my current directory into clipboard.
Re: Ask HN: What are the Linux Tools/Scripts you don't want to live without anymore?
#4Although not specifically Linux:
screen, ack, ssh-agent, git.
Re: Ask HN: What are the Linux Tools/Scripts you don't want to live without anymore?
#5Picked up very recently: https://github.com/peco/peco
Git alias for keeping branches up-to-date: https://gist.github.com/ricardobeat/9600953