Have you ever spent way too much time babysitting a long-running command? Code compilation, large file transfers, software upgrades and other time consuming tasks can trash productivity by requiring intermittent attention.
I have a novel idea; let’s not do that anymore!
Fellow command-line junkies either love the cheat gem by Chris Wanstrath or they’ve never heard of it.
What “cheat” offers is a plethora (currently 601) of text-based cheat sheets at the tip of your fingers. Go ahead, give it a try:
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Command-line jockeys are intimately familiar with the cd command. We’ve typed commands like this one a gozillion times:
jerod@mbp:~/src/ruby/rails$ cd .. jerod@mbp:~/src/ruby$
We all know that . represents the current working directory and .. represents the current working directory’s parent directory. If we follow this pattern to its logical conclusion, then … would represent the current working directory’s parent’s parent, etc. Unfortunately, cd doesn’t work that way.
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