Watch someone backspace 40 characters instead of pressing CTRL+W, and you’ll understand why this list exists. A collection of shell tricks-grouped by what wo...

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A practical collection of shell tricks grouped into universally portable POSIX/Bourne tricks and Bash/Zsh-specific features. Covers keyboard shortcuts for line editing (CTRL+W, CTRL+U, CTRL+R), navigation shortcuts (cd -, pushd/popd), scripting safety flags (set -e, set -u), brace expansion for quick backups and renames, process substitution, globstar, backgrounding with disown, and piping both stdout and stderr with |&. Each trick is explained with a concrete real-world scenario.

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