With ZSH there's something called "path-completion" that makes that even easier.

Say you want to go to "/usr/local/share/fonts" but that's too much to type out, you can instead type "cd /u/l/s/f" and hit tab. If every path element is unambiguous it will just expand it to "/usr/local/share/fonts". In this case though, "/u/l/" can expand to "/usr/local" or "/usr/lib" so when you hit tab it moves the cursor to just after the "l" to indicate it needs you to distinguish between "/usr/local/" and "/usr/lib". If you just type "o" and hit tab again, it will know that there's only one match for "/usr/lo" and expand that to "/usr/local/" Then there's only one match for "s" which is "share", and only one match for "f" which is "fonts".

That avoids the danger of executing a command with an asterisk wildcard.

You can use || between two commands as well. If the first command returns exit code != 0, the second command will run.

I.e. which ansible || pip install ansible.

This only works until you grow an addiction to making pho at home and start documenting your progress.

cd "Pho Recipes and Pictures"

cd /

sudo rm -rf *

Basically the Linux version of deleting system32 but idk I'm not a super Linux nerd yet.