While "would you rather type" examples are OK, I wish more people would learn how to use their shell's short-cuts and trivial scripting. Whenever you find your

While "would you rather type" examples are OK, I wish more people would learn how to use their shell's short-cuts and trivial scripting. Whenever you find yourself repeatedly running long and awkward commands that you wish were shorter, you ought to think about converting them into an alias or a script.