What's Your Go to Command When You Open a Terminal?

I use zsh and like keeping my terminal clear, so I found a zsh script called almostontop which clears on pressing enter.

link: https://github.com/Valiev/almostontop/blob/master/README.md

I have some some shortcuts to open some of my most used "Go to" SSH locations, I'm too lazy to manually write ssh root@192... so cmd+opt+r ssh into my router, cmd+opt+p ssh into RPi etc...

.bashrc runs tmux for me automatically but only if I ssh in. It removed just enough friction from using tmux that I finally put in the time to learn it. Would recommend/10

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27613209/how-to-automati...

history | grep <thing>

I use a number of tools and I've often forgotten an individual command, or when I'm using tools like curl or docker that have a long single line command that I know I can't remember.

tmux

I always go to the same place, my programming directory, so for years I've done the sequence:

{cd Pr<tab><enter>cd c<tab><enter>}

Takes me to my current project folder, and there I can use gcc or vim or whatever I need to do. I thought about shortening it or setting my terminal to start in that directory but the ritual is important to me, it sets me in the right mood, for whatever reason.

ls -l as a force of habit I guess

I started using 'w' as a habit on BBS's back in the day... then kept that up when I had an account on super computers in high school...(https://newfutures.aps.edu/supercomputing) it's still muscle memory for me. I have no idea why as most of the machines I'm on now, I'm the only one with an account.

Old habits die hard. It's just muscle memory at this point.

cd to get to the directory of interest. After that, probably workon.

It depends what I am trying to do; often the first command will be cd (to access whatever directory I will intend to work on), but not always.

Sometimes ls.

Other times I'll hit enter a few times and then Ctrl+L to clear the screen.

Sort of feels like tapping my fingers on the desk.

Probably "pwd", from the days when it wasn't the prompt / my profile / the shell I was using

The command I opened that terminal for.

Lol, same here. ls and then clear. Now I'm ready to do whatever I want

99% of the time, I'm ssh'ing to a remote host

So it's `ssh <host>`

no matter what I do `ls` as well

cat .ssh/config

ssh nameIforgot:/to/fix

ls

clear