(Use ^d instead of aliasing x to exit) Use magit in emacs as a git front-end instead of dozens of git aliases. You can continue to use vi or eclipse or whateve

(Use ^d instead of aliasing x to exit) Use magit in emacs as a git front-end instead of dozens of git aliases. You can continue to use vi or eclipse or whatever for editing. Use dired in emacs to replace a lot of file manipulation aliases. Replace all your complicated aliases with ^r reverse search. For example, instead of typing sudo dnf --refresh check-update I type ^rche because 'check' is the most distinct string in that command in my mind, and by 'che' bash has already located the last time I typed it in the history. Save lots of history: HISTSIZE=100000 # Lots of history. HISTFILESIZE=100000 # Lots of history in the file. HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth # Ignore entries with leading white space and dupes. HISTIGNORE="ls:ll:cd:fg:j:jobs" # Uninteresting commands to not record in history. shopt -s histappend # Append history to file, don't overwrite. shopt -s histverify # Show expanded history before running it. shopt -s cmdhist # Store multiline cmds as single Which directory is hiding all the bytes? alias dux='du -x --max-depth=1 | sort -n' Machines on the local network: alias nwho='ping -b -c 2 255.255.255.255 2>&1 | grep "bytes from" | cut -d " " -f 4 | sort | uniq | sed -e "s/://g"' Set the permissions to allow sharing of files in a directory between users in the same group (probably doesn't work on bsd/osx): function rwxs { find $1 -type d | xargs chmod u+rwx,g+rwxs,o+rx find $1 -type f | xargs chmod ug+rw,o+r }