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In Bash, I like to use cdargs

sudo apt-get install cdargs

It allows you to set up shortcuts on the fly,

cv sdbackup

rather than cd /media/user/Backup Plus/ MyFiles/current/sdbackup

cv with no argument will give you a list to select from current shortcuts

My answers (mostly running in powershell - not that it makes much of a difference!)

Rust-based utilities I couldn't live without:

• fd (fd-find) for finding my files
• rg (ripgrep) for string searches
• sd (sed) for search and replace
• dust (dust) for information about my directories
• lsd (aliased to ls or l) for replacing Dir
• bat (better cat) - for when the help pages are too long

Other stuff I love:

• htop - I just learned you can run this in WSL to see all your system cores. It's pretty!
• nvim - obviously. The best vim. Even works in VSCode

I really like jless. You can pipe the JSON output of a cURL command into it and it displays it in a really nice, easy to read way with collapsible arrays and objects.

Always partial to yq and jq. No easier way to interact with kubernetes outputs on the fly.

pv, which is like cat, simply copying files or stdin to stdout, but prints statistics to the terminal.

A related tip: dd isn't special in the way most people use it. This works too, if you're root: pv my-fav-distro.iso > /dev/sdc

• scoop - closest to apt on Windows
• yt-dlp - active fork of youtube-dl
• neofetch - System information display
• winfetch - Same as neofetch, but for windows
• pandoc - Ultimate converter
• ffmpeg - must have tool
• taskwarrior - best task manager imho