[Cialug] Evaluating productivity

[Matthew Nuzum]

Those are awesome tips Eric. After I read this I thought of two instances
earlier today where alt . would have made things easier.

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:57 PM, Eric Junker <eric at eric.nu> wrote:

> On 5/10/2010 11:28 AM, Matthew Nuzum wrote:
> > In code there are profilers that inspect program execution and
> > highlight repeating tasks that are inefficient. Is there anything
> > like that for the commandline? Maybe I could run it over my
> > .bash_history file or it could watch me type.
>
> This article shows how to analyze your bash history and talks about
> creating Bash aliases/functions to minimize typing.
>
>
> http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2007/01/whats_in_your_bash_history.html
>
> I've found lots of good command line tips at
> http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes
>
> A few of my favorite commands
> "cd -" to change to the previous working directory
> "ALT+." to insert the argument of the last command
>
> I've got a few Bash aliases that save me some typing, modified my prompt
> to show useful information (current branch). Replaced diff with
> colordiff and use ack instead of grep. Still need to investigate custom
> bash completion.
>
> Also checkout j. http://github.com/rupa/j j keeps track of which
> directories you use often and then instead of using cd to go to the
> directory, you can use j and then type a substring of the path and jump
> to that directory.
>
> Eric
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