Hacking the command line
One liners and shell tricks that make the prompt feel like home.
Copy cwd from Terminal.app to clipboard
Kenneth Rose
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terminal, clipboard, cwd
Download images from feed
Nick den Engelsman
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perl, shell, linux
One-liner: Destroy all Heroku Postgres Backups
James Martin
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heroku, linux, unix, postgres
Current branch name in the prompt with Subversion
François Pietka
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shell, svn, prompt, subversion
Tricked out VIM
Dustin Dalen
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vim
Linux Tunnel
Martin Downton
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ssh, tunnel
Executing local node packages
Sam Murray
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bash, node, npm
Using sudo with an alias
Marius Cotofana
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bash, terminal, alias, sudo
Write a valid OpenDocument file using zip
Paul Frields
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cli, zip, opendocument
Make a Backup of a File
Steven Wade
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shell, bash
Enabling Public Access To Development Machine
Joon You
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ruby, rails, ssh
Make and Change to a Directory in a Single Command
Devon Campbell
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shell, zsh, bash
Be notified for content in a website
Matteo Cappadonna
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osx, bash
Tab through Vim Buffers
volk
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vim, vimrc
List most recent files with minute precision
Franco Cedillo
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console, bash
Edit the command line with Vi commands
James Leonis
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terminal, vim, awesome
Using different SSH keys for multiple git accounts
davewatts
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git, github, ssh, ssh-keygen
Interact with the clipboard from VIM
Daniel Rodríguez
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vim, linux, xclip
get latest file
tacoen
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perl, bash
Alias Your Compass Init
Mike Wille
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bash, compass
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