Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier

A single-page reference for shell tricks that save keystrokes, sanity, and production servers.

Live page: https://jains99.github.io/shell-tricks/

What's covered

• Keyboard shortcuts (cursor movement, line editing, history search)
• History navigation (!!, !$, ^old^new)
• Scripting safety flags (set -euo pipefail)
• Brace expansion and globbing
• Process control (Ctrl+Z → bg → disown, |& tee)

Credits

Based on the original article by Christian Hofstede-Kuhn: Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier — reformatted for readability.