Once you start using Terminal on a regular basis, you learn many tricks to make life easier and more efficient. Some of these tricks include setting an alias for commands as well as having bash use color when cruising around the CLI. The 318 Tech Journal has some helpful tips and tricks for make things better for you when using bash. Adding some of the suggested Exports and Aliases to your ~/.bash_profile will make your life on the command line much more enjoyable. Check out the article here.
Nate Walck
Nate is a Systems Reliability Engineer at Dropbox, Inc in San Francisco, CA. He runs afp548.com along with Sam Keeley and is one of the founding members of the ##osx-server IRC channel on freenode.net. He loves being involved in the Mac Admin community and using Open Source projects whenever possible, especially Munki, The Luggage and Puppet.
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