Useful command-line aliases?

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Published on 2009-07-17T14:01:55Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 18:21 UTC
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I've been wondering what command-line aliases (such as in bash, or just even .bat files under Windows) you can't live without?

I'll start off with my favourite:

alias q=exit

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