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5 Terminal Tricks That Save Me 2 Hours Every Week (Linux/macOS)

April 14, 2026

# On macOS brew install fzf sudo apt install fzf rafian.com

Install trash instead of using rm directly: 5 Terminal Tricks That Save Me 2 Hours

function killport() awk 'NR!=1 print $2' Now run: killport 3000 → It kills everything on port 3000 instantly. No more hunting for PIDs. grep is slow on large codebases. Use rg (ripgrep) instead. It respects .gitignore and is 10x faster. rafian.com

set completion-ignore-case on These five tricks take 30 minutes to set up but save me 2 hours every week. That is 100 hours per year .