[declnz]

Hehe, well if we're going here there are various go-to shell commands / filenames / hostnames I inevitably end up using at some point just for the wry smile:

    $ PONG=1.1.1.1; ping $PONG
    $ more cowbell
    $ cat dog | tee hee

And my favourite choice of empty file:

    $ touch me

Also I was fairly please years ago when I briefly re-aliased cd to something that could do "the right thing" (TM):

    $ cd ...
    $ cd ..../src/

etc..

[mkl]

"cd ..." etc. worked in 4DOS, an alternative (and extended) DOS shell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4DOS.

[stevage]

I think it was standard DOS, from maybe DOS 5 upwards?

[mkl]

I was thinking it worked in MS DOS after some point, but I was remembering more like Windows 95 era. I don't think it worked in MS DOS 6.x, because IIRC that's when I was using 4DOS. However, it doesn't work in Windows 10 CMD.EXE.

[murph-almighty]

I wrote a generic bash function to spin up a mongodb instance called `mongo`. I couldn't resist adding

`echo "Mongo only pawn in game of life"`

[jkingsbery]

You would get bonus points if you wrapped the mongodb process so that when it receives a SIGKILL it logs out "Mongo like candy!"

[nocman]

LOL - thanks for sharing this. Especially "$ more cowbell".

I am SO gonna steal that.

:-D