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Discussion on: 10 simple Linux tips which save 50% of my time in the command line

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Brendan Hansknecht

Nice article. Personally, I feel that a lot of people can get a huge boost in shell productivity by installing oh-my-zsh and some nice plugins.

I'm also pro cobalt2 color scheme(not sure it really helps that much with productivity though)

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javinpaul

@brendan , looks like a nice idea, but most of the time you don't have the luxury of those plugins on highly secure corporate infrastructure like on a big investment banks.

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8ucik

JavinPaul is true about this. On such an infrastructure you can' t have plugins installed and use them all around. Although I have got the option to use zsh I love the idea of using Ctrl + R.

The best useful thing I have found is the option to set aliases. You can have a cd into folder then run a program do a copy of the result and then return to the home folder. Just in one command.

This is a deal breaker for me that when I switch to a Windows environment I can't handle it.