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Discussion on: What are the most used commands in your shell history?

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Valentin Baca

No surprise here. git, cd, ls, vim, build, search

     1  3663  36.6337%   g
     2  938   9.38094%   cd
     3  534   5.34053%   igs        # inall git status (runs 'git status' in each dir in pwd)
     4  516   5.16052%   ..
     5  277   2.77028%   vim        # <3
     6  258   2.58026%   ls
     7  216   2.16022%   <redacted> # company build command, aliased to be 2 letters :)
     8  200   2.0002%    ws         # alias to cd to my workspace dir
     9  175   1.75018%   <redacted> # company workspace information command, aliased to be 2 letters
    10  167   1.67017%   ag         # the silver searcher > (grep or awk or find)
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Abhinav Kumar • Edited

You might want to look into autojump or autojump-rs to quickly jump to your workspace directories.

Also, ripgrep is a competent (not drop-in though) alternative to ag/grep.

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Valentin Baca

Thanks. I've found that autojump and the like are too non-determistic to be reliable.

ripgrep is missing two very critical features: -G (--file-search-regex) and the ability to grep gzip'd files. The ripgrep vim plugin is also sub-par to ag's.

ripgrep is certainly faster, but they're both so fast their difference is often in ms.