Useful Unix Commands

Here are some terminal snippets I like to keep at hand. The most useful commands can be easily forgotten because you just don't use them enough.

source

Want your Vim configuration on another computer? Consider checking it into source control. Then, add this line to your ~/.vimrc file.

source /your-git-repo/vimrc

zmv

If you're using zsh, you should know it comes with zmv. Here's how to remove a prefix from a bunch of files.

zmv 'prefix-(*)' '$1'

recursively delete specific file or folder

For a particular folder:

find . -type d -name '.git' -print -exec rm -rf {} \;

For a particular file:

find . -name '.DS_Store' -print -exec rm -rf {} \;