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[-] anonymouse2@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

I recently learned to use a for loop on the command line to organize hundreds of files in a few seconds.

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[-] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 9 points 2 months ago
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[-] beirdobaggins@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

diff -y -W 200 file1 file2

Shows a side by side diff of 2 files with enough column width to see most of what I need usually.

I have actually aliased this command as diffy

ctrl-r

searching bash history

du -sh * | sort -h

shows size of all files and dirs in the current dir and sorts them in ascending order so you can easily see the largest files or dirt ant the end of the list

ls -ltr

Shows the most recently modified files at the end of the listing.

[-] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago

Btop is an amazing resource monitor

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[-] NaevaTheRat@vegantheoryclub.org 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Not a command but bang expansions. For example !? is the args of last command useful for stuff like mkdir foo ; cd !?

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/bash-bang-commands learn these. you suck at using your computer if you don't know them.

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[-] _thebrain_@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Not a command as much as I press the up arrow a lot. I'm.pretty lazy and hitting the up arrow 12 times is easier then retyping a complex rsync command.

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[-] nichtburningturtle@feddit.org 8 points 2 months ago

nmtui. But that's because my router is trash.

[-] pocopene@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago
[-] Wuttin@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago
[-] korthrun@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 2 months ago

Seems like an appropriate place to share https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps

I'm a fan of ripgrep and lsd in particular.

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[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 8 points 2 months ago
[-] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I learned you can edit .bashrc (in your home dir) and update the alias for ls to include what I like. It has saved me lots of keystrokes. Mine is ls -lha in addition to whatever color coding stuff is there by default.

[-] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

You might like eza even more!

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[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago
[-] potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish 9 points 2 months ago

let me guess, you either use arch or gentoo

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[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

For Debian based/descended distros:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

And technically I also regularly use

redshift -O 3000

all of the blue light filter programs try to align themselves with a user's geographic location and time, but I don't keep normal hours

[-] sirico@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago

Chuck the -y in there for extra lazy mode

[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

I would but much like somebody else's recent post I have in the past nuked my install by blindly agreeing to some recommended software removals before. These days I like to double check what packages are being updated and replaced.

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[-] CameronDev@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago
[-] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 2 months ago

I remember touch

[-] nameisnotimportant@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago
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[-] macattack@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Getting cheatsheets via curl cheat.sh/INSERT_COMMAND_HERE

No install necessary, Also, you can quickly search within the cheatsheets via ~. For example if you copy curl cheat.sh/ls~find will show all the examples of ls that use find. If you remove ~find, then it shows all examples of ls.

I have a function in my bash alias for it (also piped into more for readability):

function cht() { curl cheat.sh/"$1"?style=igor|more }

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

g-push which is alias for

git push origin `git branch --show`

Which I'm writing on my phone without testing or looking

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[-] Spider89@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago
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[-] Cruxil@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

I've recently started using tmux when starting a new SSH session to try to build the habit.

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki

[-] squid_slime@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

du -sh /too/bar to get size of files/folders. sudo !! inserts sudo into previous command when forgotten. yay for full system update if yay is installed. cat reads files.

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