Time saving command line tricks in linux and mac for terminal lovers.
The original article is mentioned at become a command line ninja - lifehacker The command line can be quite powerful, but typing in long commands and file paths gets tedious pretty quickly. Here are some shortcuts that will have you running long, tedious, or complex commands with just a few keystrokes. Power users love the command line for its ability to perform complicated tasks with just a few keystrokes. But for beginners who don't know the shortcuts and type everything out longhand, it can seem like it takes forever (I know this because I'm just past beginner myself, and I still didn't know most of these shortcuts). These commands apply primarily to *NIX-based command lines, which, out of the box, are included on systems like OS X and Linux. To use them on Windows, install Cygwin . (We highly recommend ditching Windows' crappy command line for Cygwin .)