On: How to navigate directories faster with Bash (2015...

[motoboi]

Not a word about command editing.

Learn keyboard shortcuts to edit the current command line and you'll save years of your life.

ESC-. (dot) will get the last argument of the last command. This one alone will save you months.

CTRL-R will search backwards. This other will save more months.

[penthief → motoboi]

I remember being advised that it was more efficient to use the command line editing shortcuts instead of changing directory.

That was over 10 years ago and I still use the shell with this in mind.

I’m not saying I never change directory, but once I do, I tend to stay there.

I had to scroll a fair way down to find a comment validating this opinion.

Perhaps we’re wrong when saying to change directory efficiently, you don’t.

[motoboi → penthief]

Much faster. Using absolute (or home-relative ~) paths save a lot of time. Because now you can reuse commands a lot more and CTRL-R will yield more hits.