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I remember being advised that it was more efficient to use the command line editing shortcuts instead of changing directory. That was over 10 years ago and I s
by penthief 5y ago
I remember being advised that it was more efficient to use the command line editing shortcuts instead of changing directory.
That was over 10 years ago and I still use the shell with this in mind.
I’m not saying I never change directory, but once I do, I tend to stay there.
I had to scroll a fair way down to find a comment validating this opinion.
Perhaps we’re wrong when saying to change directory efficiently, you don’t.
- motoboi 5y agoMuch faster. Using absolute (or home-relative ~) paths save a lot of time. Because now you can reuse commands a lot more and CTRL-R will yield more hits.