Bash Essential Aliases and Functions

I used to maintain a .bashrc file with 200+ aliases I copied from various dotfiles repositories. I used maybe five of them. The rest were performance theater - shortcuts for commands I ran once a month, if ever. Good aliases remove friction from paths you actually walk multiple times per day. These are the ones that survived my periodic purges, plus a few functions that solve specific annoyances I kept running into. Navigation Shortcuts The .. family is worth mentioning: # filename: ~/.bashrc al