Ask HN: What are the Linux Tools/Scripts you don't want to live without anymore?

3 points by wegi 11y ago ↗ HN

Everybody has some piece of software/code on his *nix system that is either cool/ a quality of life improvement/ or just really usefull. I'd like to see some of your favorites.

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oweiler 11y ago ↗

`up`, a small Bash function I once wrote. It allows you to walk up the directory tree by passing it a path or the number of levels you would like to walk up.

Has served me well in Java in projects with deep directory trees (due to deep package hierarchies).

https://github.com/helpermethod/up

th1agofm 11y ago ↗

i have an alias for pwd | pbcopy which basically copies my current directory into clipboard.

ctb_mg 11y ago ↗

Although not specifically Linux:

screen, ack, ssh-agent, git.

ricardobeat 11y ago ↗

Picked up very recently: https://github.com/peco/peco

Git alias for keeping branches up-to-date: https://gist.github.com/ricardobeat/9600953