UNIX Tips and Tricks To Save You Time In Terminal

Once you get used to it, your brain just triggers this combination whenever the command is more complex than let's say `ls -al`. This means you have to change some habits like to `tail` your logs with absolute paths, so you don't need to `cd` into the folder first, etc.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6360320

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6046682

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5022457

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4985393

First it's quite funny, second it shows very pragmatic yet abstract usage of unix way of life, like quickly gathering data about your code base by combining other these atoms into new abstractions (as in SICP).

As he says, it's often half-assed, but it's the right half of the ass.

http://www.commandlinefu.com/

I found some nice tricks there that I ended up using.

On the other hand, I found that customizing my shell, emacs, and other such things too much a bit frustrating when dealing with multiple machines. So often I have learned to live with the defaults. In other words I don't want to get used to typing "gst" for "git status" I just type "git status" because next machine I log into might not have the gst alias.

No, it won't. It only looks like it's like reopening the terminal, it won't reload your configs and stuff. Instead of writing "clear", you can do ctrl + r to achieve the same thing.

If you instead really want your terminal to be like reopened, do "reset" instead.

Regarding the history command, combining it with grep is when it becomes really useful. Example, all my latest git commands:

history | grep -i "git"