Bash commands that are helpful to me on a daily basis and which I initially found difficult to use

I learned most of what I know about bash from The Linux Command Line by William Shotts.

Find something by name and ignore a directory.

• find . -path ./ignoreDir -prune -o -name "findName" -print
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/4210072/1108891

Use ssh to run a local script with arguments on a remote host.

• ssh user@host -i rsa_private_key 'bash -s arg01 arg02' < some_script.sh
• https://stackoverflow.com/a/2732991/1108891

Add a key to the ssh agent.

eval $(ssh-agent -s)
ssh-add /tmp/id_rsa_evidently