Bash turns 32 today, which is the default shell on many Linux distros. Happy cake day! Let us share this day with your favorite shell tips and tricks.

• dotfiles

  1 2 4.6 Python

  My dotfiles repository (by dannycolin)

Talking about ~/.inputrc. Here's mine. It supports more vim motions than the stock vi mode. https://github.com/dannycolin/dotfiles/blob/master/user/console/.inputrc

• cheat.sh

  140 37,541 0.0 Python

  the only cheat sheet you need

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com featured

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• thefuck

  305 82,982 4.2 Python

  Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command.

If you want something more complex and written in Python, there’s thefuck which implements the same fuck command. I never looked far into the code, but with over 1500 commits it probably handles some edge cases the above alias won’t.

• ShellCheck

  489 35,098 8.7 Haskell

  ShellCheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts

shellcheck, a static analysis tool for shell scripts. Caught me loads of bugs already.

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