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<div style="">Now all I need is an "undo" command for the occasional errant for loop, and I'd be set. :)
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF933398"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> cialug-bounces@cialug.org [cialug-bounces@cialug.org] on behalf of Matthew Nuzum [newz@bearfruit.org]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, May 10, 2010 16:03<br>
<b>To:</b> Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Cialug] Evaluating productivity<br>
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<div>Those are awesome tips Eric. After I read this I thought of two instances earlier today where alt . would have made things easier.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Eric Junker <span dir="ltr">
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<div class="im">On 5/10/2010 11:28 AM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:<br>
> In code there are profilers that inspect program execution and<br>
> highlight repeating tasks that are inefficient. Is there anything<br>
> like that for the commandline? Maybe I could run it over my<br>
> .bash_history file or it could watch me type.<br>
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This article shows how to analyze your bash history and talks about<br>
creating Bash aliases/functions to minimize typing.<br>
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<a href="http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/whats_in_your_bash_history.html" target="_blank">http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/whats_in_your_bash_history.html</a><br>
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I've found lots of good command line tips at<br>
<a href="http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes" target="_blank">http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes</a><br>
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A few of my favorite commands<br>
"cd -" to change to the previous working directory<br>
"ALT+." to insert the argument of the last command<br>
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I've got a few Bash aliases that save me some typing, modified my prompt<br>
to show useful information (current branch). Replaced diff with<br>
colordiff and use ack instead of grep. Still need to investigate custom<br>
bash completion.<br>
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Also checkout j. <a href="http://github.com/rupa/j" target="_blank">http://github.com/rupa/j</a> j keeps track of which<br>
directories you use often and then instead of using cd to go to the<br>
directory, you can use j and then type a substring of the path and jump<br>
to that directory.<br>
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