I am always tweaking and tricking my bash environment. I hit the same issues again and again and I always have to look up the solution, time after time. This happens until I get annoyed enough to sit down - okay, generally I am already sitting down but you get the point - and create a custom function, put it in my .bashrc and deploy it to any machine I log on to.

Read the full thing at https://developer.atlassian.com/blog/2015/02/ten-tips-for-wonderful-bash-productivity/