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What the fuck!? How am I only learning this now, after years of linux as daily driver?!
Shit is usually a pain in the ass. The challenge is divining how much of a pain in the ass something has to be that someone else might have made a solution for it.
I didn't know you could ctrl+shift+c to copy in the terminal until a month ago when my linux n00b wife said "there has to be a better way to do this. I've been right clicking to copy for 10 years.
most DE's have a thing where you can paste highlighted text using the middle mouse button
It's also independent from the Clipboard so you can do it while keeping your clipboard
Middle mouse button?!
Most mouse wheels can be clicked in place of the middle button, which has been removed from most modern computer mouses.
It's also known as mouse 3 if you need to find it on your mouse or want to bind it to something else.
I think that's just an x11 thing that might have been carried over to Wayland or at least works on Hyprland.
I believe plasma also has it
And ctrl + shift + v to paste, just in case
If that doesn't work, Shift + Insert.
you can also just use ctrl + insert for copy and shift + insert for paste.
I used to have shift insert in my muscle memory from Windows, but since my job has used a Mac since 2020 it's fallen out. I never knew Ctrl insert was copy, that's nifty! Another tool in the arsenal. It will be useful when copy in select isn't set and I don't know how to set it up lol.
I have always used ctrl/shift insert, I never got used to ctrl c/v. Glad you have new tools!
MinGW can do that, too. Useful for Git.
Ctrl+c to copy, Ctrl+v to paste, Ctrl+z to undo last change (chain it multiple times to reverse time) hopes this helps, ctrl+tab also changes applications on macos and Linux to my knowledge. If you know anymore let's put them together
You're getting downvotes because Ctrl+C doesn't work in the terminal. That sends the kill command to the currently running application. You need the shift to tell the terminal program that you're trying to copy.
I use cmd+c cmd+v in my terminal all they time, I do get ctlr+c is the shutdown command. I use a it frequently. I honestly had no clue I was being down voted but I don't care
I don't have a command key. I don't use a mac.
Congratulations! I remember where I was when I first learned it (in a noisy server room at the back of a machine shop).
Now pair it with FZF for fuzzy finding -- it's surprisingly easy to set up, just following any guide. It's insanely useful. I find myself even doing things like typing:
commands with these like comments on the ends as sort of "tags" so I can ctrl+r search for them later. Yes, I know I could just use a named function, but this is like the step just before that--before I know if I'll be issuing the same command all the time, or just for the next couple weeks. (This one was from when I was resting my notebook on my laptop.)
I like this; I have a lot of commands that I don't use often enough to justify an alias, but still need to rerun all the time. thanks!
Same.
As usual, that's documented (we can RTFM).
Before trying ctrl-s, you may want to disable software flow control: run
stty -ixon& add it to your initialization files. Otherwise, you'll pause terminal output. ctrl-q resumes terminal output.sttyreveals terminal special charactersThese special characters/keys often perform special functions. To illustrate
Just checking, because I learnt to type before I worked this out, and because surely someone reading doesn't know: press tab. Bash will fill in file names from your current directory.
E.g. say you have files fred1file, fred2file, jim.
Type f then press tab, it will fill to "fred". Then press 2 and press tab again and it will fill the full "fred2file".
Have a play, it works in heaps of situations.
Yeah already use this all the time, had to set it up on arch to work with sudo tho.
Bash will also do autocomplete for cli programs that have autocomplete functionality. Try typing:
git r<tab><tab>you'll see options for all the git commands that start with r. Often cli commands will have autocompletion for long (double dash) options.
If you want to see all the commands that have auto complete available, look in:
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/
There's a few other locations they can live, notably:
/etc/bash_completion.d/ ~/.bash_completion ~/.local/share/bash-completion/completions/
I don't know if there are more or if there is any variation per distro.
You can also write your own bash completions. They can get pretty smart and context sensitive.
Pretty good beginning tutorial:
https://iridakos.com/programming/2018/03/01/bash-programmable-completion-tutorial
edit - I should've mentioned that this isn't native to bash, it requires installation of bash-completion. But bash-completion is installed by default in many distros.
Use mcfly and it will be even better.
This but with FZF and
agI'm not going to say how long I used linux before learning this. It isn't "this many days old", but it may as well be.
I have 7 headless linux boxes running.
Hey! I've seen you before! You're the unhinged jackass noticer!
...i looked in your comment history for too long to figure out why though. https://lemmy.world/comment/18001123
Wait till you learn about
!?.^r is superior, though.
https://atuin.sh/ Does all that and a lot more, like showing if the command succeeded and which directory it was run in
Even quicker with zsh or atuin: write the first few letters then arrow up to cycle through all matches
Even quicker with fish: Write the first few letters then it auto-suggests the last-run command matching that prefix (and then you can still arrow up to cycle through all matches).
(There is also a zsh plugin for that, called zsh-autosuggestions.)
A lot of stuff assumes Bash, so occasionally when the syntax differs its slightly annoying; sometimes you have to modify a few lines of a file or something (or run it as in Bash manually). Fish is so nice though. It really should replace Bash for almost everyone. If you really need Bash you can still use it.
With script files, you can (and should regardless of Fish usage) put a shebang at the top, like
#!/bin/shor#!/bin/bash. Then it will run with Bash as you'd expect.I also recommend not setting Fish as your system-wide default shell (since then a missing shebang will cause it to run in Fish), but rather just have your terminal emulator start
fishby default.And yeah, outside of scripting, if I notice a command requires Bash syntax (which you can often tell from Fish's syntax highlighting turning red), then I just run
bash, execute the Bash command in there and thenexitback out of there.Having said all that, I'm not trying to take away from your point. If I wasn't just joking around, I would caveat a Fish recommendation just as much.
Yeah, it's just some scripts that come with programs sometimes not including that is the issue. Like I said, it isn't a big issue, just occasionally requires small edits if you try to run the script in Fish, or, like you said, running them with Bash.
I main ZSH and I've been CTRL+R'ing for years damn here I am a fool
Glad to be of service
This is what I love about Linux - always learning new things!
I like to imagine someone added it in for their own personal use and told nobody because surely they are the only one.
It was publicized as part of
readline, I think....in like 1989.
I'm shocked how far I had to scroll down before it was mentioned, I was getting scared I would have to say it lol
gnu readline