Presented by Nikhil Mungel at DevOpsDays Bangalore 2011.

1. 5 Time Saving Bash Tricks Nikhil Mungel @hyfather

2. Fun with Control and Meta

3. Meta-Dot and friends scp ~/source/tree/file.cnikhilm@server.tw.com:. M-. nikhilm@server.tw.com:. Yank the last argument to previous command. M-C-y ~/source/tree/file.c Yank the first argument to previous command.

4. Killing and Yanking C-k Kill text till end-of-line. C-y Yanks it back! M-y Cycle through the kill-ring.

5. Bang through the History! !! Substitute previous command. $ sudo !!

6. SSH multiplexing http://bit.ly/bashtips ~/.ssh/config Host * ControlMaster auto ControlPath /tmp/%r0%h:%p

7. pushdand popd A stack of directories! $ pushd . $ popd

8. Multi-Session History http://bit.ly/bashtips ~/.bashrc $ shopt –s histappend

9. tail -f httpd.log & http://bit.ly/bashtips Share STDOUTbetween the REPL and the tail. Even the shell itself is a REPL (!) No switching tabs.

10. Thanks! http://bit.ly/bashtips Nikhil Mungel @hyfather