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Since I'm working in git repos the majority of the time, I type these hundreds of times per day:

    alias s="git status"
    alias d="git diff"

I prefer looking at this stuff in a terminal rather than an IDE. Reducing them to a single character just feels so good. Note: not a git alias like "git s", literally just the single character "s" in Bash itself.

And coming in third:

    alias ..="cd .."

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  alias ..="cd .."

If you use zsh, typing a directory name changes to it automatically. It’s almost always a very delightful thing.

add z to it!

I like

  alias h="cd -"

to go to the last directory I was in. Inspired by how you move the cursor to the left in vim.

Bash has this as well

  set autocd

that would be rather

    shopt -s autocd

Yeppity.

> autocd If set, a command name that is the name of a directory is executed as if it were the argument to the cd command. This option is only used by interactive shells

Whoops, sorry. That's right.

side note: i started to get into zsh and then serverless. zsh was balking at finding node.js/yarn stuff and running commands. I had to revert back to bash

I have one that takes an optional numeric arg for the number of times to repeat. Surprisingly useful, but I still keep meaning to get round to making a nicer interactive one with fzf or something.

   $ alias ..
    ..=up
    $ type -f up
    up () {
        local tmp_path=''
        for i in $(seq 1 ${1:-1})
        do
            tmp_path+='../'
        done
        cd "$tmp_path"
    }

I have the same exact aliases but they check for a Git or SVN repo and then use the right tool accordingly.

I also have `..`, but also `...` which maps to `cd ../..`

I also have '..' and '...', AND '....' heheh. I use that last one a lot

One/two char git aliases took me to the next level:

    alias ci='git commit'
    alias co='git checkout'
    alias d='git diff'
    alias dc='git diff --cached'
    alias l='git log --oneline --graph --all --decorate'
    alias ru='git remote update'
    alias s='git status'

You should try Diff2HTML - https://diff2html.xyz/ install the cli with `npm install -g diff2html-cli`

    alias diff='diff2html -s side'

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