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Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

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768 points speckx | 2 comments | 22 Oct 25 14:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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oceanplexian ◴[22 Oct 25 18:11 UTC] No.45672984[source]▶
It's weird how the circle of life progresses for a developer or whatever.

- When I was a fresh engineer I used a pretty vanilla shell environment

- When I got a year or two of experience, I wrote tons of scripts and bash aliases and had a 1k+ line .bashrc the same as OP

- Now, as a more tenured engineer (15 years of experience), I basically just want a vanilla shell with zero distractions, aliases or scripts and use native UNIX implementations. If it's more complicated than that, I'll code it in Python or Go.

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trenchpilgrim ◴[22 Oct 25 18:42 UTC] No.45673397[source]▶
When I had one nix computer, I wanted to customize it heavily.

Now I have many nix computers and I want them consistent and with only the most necessary packages installed.

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sestep ◴[22 Oct 25 20:29 UTC] No.45674750[source]▶
For anyone else reading this comment who was confused because this seems like the opposite of what you'd expect about Nix: Hacker News ate the asterisks and turned them into italics.
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1. fragmede ◴[22 Oct 25 21:06 UTC] No.45675141[source]▶
use a backslash. \*

(had to use a double backslash to render that correctly)

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2. latexr ◴[22 Oct 25 21:26 UTC] No.45675365[source]▶
Or two consecutive asterisks: ** becomes *