Everybody has some piece of software/code on his *nix system that is either cool/ a quality of life improvement/ or just really usefull. I'd like to see some of your favorites.
`up`, a small Bash function I once wrote. It allows you to walk up the directory tree by passing it a path or the number of levels you would like to walk up.<p>Has served me well in Java in projects with deep directory trees (due to deep package hierarchies).<p><a href="https://github.com/helpermethod/up" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/helpermethod/up</a>
Picked up very recently: <a href="https://github.com/peco/peco" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/peco/peco</a><p>Git alias for keeping branches up-to-date: <a href="https://gist.github.com/ricardobeat/9600953" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/ricardobeat/9600953</a>