Tools to quickly navigate your file system

No matter you are working on a terminal or a GUI system, navigating to the right folder takes pretty time especially when you are drilling through the deep folder hierarchies. Here it talks about several ways to change directory quickly, including creating alias commands(Linux/Windows), using AutoJump(an advanced cd command for Linux/Windows/MacOS) or Listary(an amazing tool for finding/opening files/folders instantly on Windows).

cmd auto

Add tree command to Git bash on Windows

If your Git bash on Windows is not shipped with tree command, you can reinstall it and choose use Git and optional Unix tools option on install or just add this command manually.

cmd git-bash

Improved command line tools

Using command line tools for your job can be highly effective and productive. The author of CLI: improved have been using them over 20 years. He often find better CLI tools to use. In that article, he gives a list of improved CLI tools for the traditional ones. Below are some examples of them. A tip to use the new tools is to create an alias for each new tool with the old one.

cmd best-practice