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Speed up your time on the command line
# first, find out which commands you use the most:
cut -f1 -d" " ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr | head -n 30
# example output:
95 cd
63 bundle
40 exit
33 vi
33 ls
...
# next, in your ~/.bashrc file, alias the longer commands into one or two character commands
alias b='bundle'
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