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Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

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756 points speckx | 2 comments | 22 Oct 25 14:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.506s | 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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1. dylan604 ◴[23 Oct 25 00:57 UTC] No.45677013[source]▶
man, i couldn't live without alias ..='cd ..' or alias ...='cd ../..'

to this day, i still get tripped up when using a shell for the first time without those as they're muscle memory now.

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2. fiddlerwoaroof ◴[23 Oct 25 02:21 UTC] No.45677475[source]▶
I just use the autocd zsh shell option for this. And I also use `hash -d` to define shortcuts for common directories. Then just “executing” something like `~gh/apache/kafka` will cd to the right place.