i just do a command close to what i want but slightly wrong just so i can do thefuck
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bash users… zsh is much better
How?
type part of the command, then press up and it’ll complete it from your history….
also i suggest Oh-My-Zsh for nice colors in the terminal
the first time you do it you’ll get angry at all the time wasted in bash… also with oh my zsh it’ll show you what branch you’re in in a git repository… it’s great.
Thanks! I have zsh on some of my machines, and installed zpresto on some but never got the advantages... probably due to bash muscle memory.
You also can get the git branch in bash, and a bunch of other $PS1 customizations are also possible (Tmux, ssh, time, background processes, etc).
I'll try the up completion later :)
yeah you can do anything in bash….
zsh is really just an extension of bash, imo…
but the completion alone makes it worth it for me.
also colors in the terminal
Ctrl+R
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
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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:
$ xinput --disable $(xinput --list | grep -i touchpad | grep 'id=[0-9]\+' -o | cut -d= -f2) # Disable synaptic touchpad trackpad pointer
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.)
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I'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.
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This but with FZF and ag
https://atuin.sh/ Does all that and a lot more, like showing if the command succeeded and which directory it was run in
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I used to be like this but people seriously. CTRL+R
Do it. Don't make this one of those things you've heard about and just never got around to trying. Open your terminal right now and CTRL+R and type any part of the command you did before. If the command you want is not showing first just hit CTRL+R again to go to the next one back.
DO IT.
Edit: I did learn from this thread today though that ZSH has it set to where you can just type part of what you're looking for then hit up to do the same thing. Neat!
Holy shit. I just tried it. ctrl+r is a revelation! How the fuck did I not know about this?
You can empower Ctrl+r event more by using fzf. After I started using it, I can't imagine going back to without it.
WHAT THE FUCJ IS THIS SORCERY BRO I'VE BEEN USING LINUX FOR AGES AND NEVER KNEW THIS BROOOOOOOOOO
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What, and type 'ls' again?
Ctrl + R and start typing the command, it'll come up, press enter. Im just more lazy because I know there are still faster ways.
Edit: instead of hitting enter, keep pressing ctrl + R to cycle through history commands that contain what you typed in
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Pretty much, yeah.
Rather than jot down in a text file the various ffmpeg commands I use frequently...
Raktajino@laptop:~/Downloads$ history | grep ffmpeg
12 sudo apt install audacity gimp ffmpeg mplayer
184 history | grep ffmpeg
215 ffmpeg -i source.mkv -ss 629 -t 7 out.mkv
217 ffmpeg -i out.mkv -s 0.5 -vf scale=1280:720 out.mp4
218 ffmpeg -i out.mkv -ss 0.5 -vf scale=1280:720 out.mp4
231 ffmpeg -i out.mp4 -vf "subtitles=out.srt" final.mp4
503 ffmpeg -i toofat.wav toofat.mp3
...
682 history | grep ffmpeg
684 ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[1:0] [2:0] concat=n=2" out.gif
685 ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[1:0] [2:0] concat=n=2:v=1" out.gif
686 ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[1:0] [2:0] concat=n=2:v=1" -map '[v]' out.gif
687 history | grep ffmpeg
688 ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[0:0] 12:0] concat=n=2:v=1" -map '[v]' out.gif
689 ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[0:0] 1:0] concat=n=2:v=1" -map '[v]' out.gif
690 ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[0:0] [1:0] concat=n=2:v=1" -map '[v]' out.gif
691 ffmpeg -i 1.gif -i 2.gif -filter_complex "[0:0] [1:0] concat=n=2" out.gif
694 history | grep ffmpeg
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history | grep ‘part of the command I remember’
Ha... That as if I would ever remember the part of the tool instead of the fact what it did 🤣
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history | grep then !cmd_number
zsh-history-substring-search
I lazily type part of the thing I want like "sys" and then ctrl+⬆️/⬇️ and sudo systemctl start libvirtd etc. appear like magic.
You're in vim, you forgot to sudo, the file is read only and you have loads of changed you don't feel like saving off to /tmp and playing the copy file shell game.
[esc]:w !sudo tee %
it shoves the current buffer through tee (termina adapter) with sudo privs vim will warn you that the file changed, just [esc]:q! and don't let it save, you already saved it.
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^R
I see everyone posting about Ctrl+R, here's a couple more useful CLI shortcuts you might enjoy:
cd - (change directory to $OLDPWD usually the previous directory)
git checkout - (similarly checkout the previous branch)
Ctrl+A (return caret to beginning of command, great when you forgot a positional argument and you were almost done typing the command)
Ctrl+E (similar to Ctrl+A but move to the end of the command)
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