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Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

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756 points speckx | 5 comments | 22 Oct 25 14:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.626s | 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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chis ◴[22 Oct 25 19:37 UTC] No.45674098[source]▶
I think it's more likely to say that this comes from a place of laziness than some enlightened peak. (I say this as someone who does the same, and is lazy).

When I watch the work of coworkers or friends who have gone these rabbit holes of customization I always learn some interesting new tools to use - lately I've added atuin, fzf, and a few others to my linux install

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1. bigwheels ◴[22 Oct 25 22:20 UTC] No.45675898[source]▶
Atuin is new to me!

https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin

Discussed 4 months ago:

Atuin – Magical Shell History https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44364186 - June 2025, 71 comments

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2. auraham ◴[23 Oct 25 00:10 UTC] No.45676728[source]▶
I gave it a try a few months ago, but did not work for me. My main issue is that atuin broke my workflow with fzf (If I remember correctly, pressing ctrl + r to lookup my shell history did not work well after installing atuin).
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3. bigwheels ◴[23 Oct 25 01:06 UTC] No.45677064[source]▶
I'm sympathetic, also a longtime fzf user here. I install it reflexively on any system I use for more than a day or two.
4. tacker2000 ◴[23 Oct 25 07:13 UTC] No.45679105[source]▶
I like atuin but why is it so slow when first opening (hitting up) in the shell?
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5. johntash ◴[23 Oct 25 07:30 UTC] No.45679188[source]▶
I'd recommend disabling atuin when hitting up and just leave it on ctrl+r instead