Start all of your commands with a comma

I believe I saw a Hynek Schlawack YouTube video where he mentions this tip that he got from Brandon’s article. Putting a comma at the start of your commands will make it easy to search, prevent name collisons, etc.

Brandon used the following to get a count of the commands on his laptop. Mine is below:

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$ apt-file search -x '^/usr/bin/[^/]*$' | wc -l
47768

Then your commands can live in ~/bin/ or ~/.bin/ directory or somewhere else, because you could just type a comma followed by tab and your list of commands will appear:

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$ ,_«tab»_
,complete-scp        ,go-thpgp            ,range
,complete-ssh        ,gr                  ,svn-store-password
,coreoff             ,hss                 ,umount
,coreon              ,mount-thpgp
,find                ,mount-twt