6 points afefers | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 15:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source

What are the most useful/essential things in your shell configuration file. Be it custom function, wrappers, aliases, etc. Please provide an explanation since it isn't always obvious to others.

1. wruza ◴[23 Oct 24 02:33 UTC] No.41921183[source]▶

>>41915422 (OP) #

I always alias rm, mv, cp, ln to -i.

Also, gt, gtt, gl, ga, gc, gu, gp, gd, gd2 for git status -s, status, log, add, commit, pull, push, diff, diff to rev. All with useful (to me) flags.

My prompt looks like this:

  \n
  [<status>] user@site [<cwd>]\n
  $

So that I see where I am, all commands line up, the last status is obvious and also there’s never this:

  $ cat nonewline.txt
  Oops no newline$ _

My .inputrc always contains https://stackoverflow.com/a/1030206

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