• huf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago
    • atools, which includes als, aunpack, apack. so you can stop caring about the kind of archive and just unpack it. it also saves you from shit archives that have multiple files/dirs in their root.
    • perl -e / perl -lne / …
    • units
    • bc - a calculator that’s actually good
    • pass - the only non-shit password store tool i’ve found so far. no gui, uses gpg and git to do the encrypting and storage/sharing
    • alias lr='ls -lrth' - so you can easily find the newest file, cos that’s frequently what you want
    • unip - my script to look up things in the unicode db
    • find -type f -exec xzgrep 're' {} + - because xzgrep cant do -r

    oh yeah, and for the shell readline, alt-b, alt-f, ctrl-w, ctrl-u, ctrl-k, ctrl-a, ctrl-e

  • sgtnasty@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago

    pv (Pipe Viewer) is a command line tool to view verbose information about data streamed/piped through it. The data can be of any source like files, block devices, network streams etc. It shows the amount of data passed through, time running, progress bar, percentage and the estimated completion time.

  • renzev@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    tldr is great. Basically a crowd-sourced alternative to man with much more concise entries. Example:

    $ tldr dhcpcd

  DHCP client.
  More information: <https://roy.marples.name/projects/dhcpcd>.

  Release all address leases:

      sudo dhcpcd --release

  Request the DHCP server for new leases:

      sudo dhcpcd --rebind
  • Bob@feddit.nl
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    2 months ago

    I use “ping” every time I suspect my internet might be going a bit slow.

    • LordCrom@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Try mtr . It’ll run kinda like a trace route but will show you where the delay is happening. Still relys in icmp not being blocked

  • macattack@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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 }

  • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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    2 months ago
    sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

    And technically

    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

      • NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml
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        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.

  • seth@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    In my ~/.bashprofile: alias resource="source ~/.bashprofile"

    In my terminal: resource

    Anything to save a few characters

    • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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      2 months ago

      omz reload

      not going to say zsh is better than bash or fish, but oh-my-zsh does make it more attractive for some use-cases

        • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
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          2 months ago

          I’ll have to give starship a try, seems like a cool way to handle customizing the prompt

          as to the “omz is bloat and slows down your shell”:

          1. How slow? Because I’ve never noticed. Are we talking about waiting for 15 seconds when I should only have to wait for 1, or are we talking theory and the difference between 0.5 vs 0.08 seconds in benchmarks?

          Because I’ve never been inconvenienced by the speed of my shell nor terminal emulator, despite having tried all kinds of setups. Turns out that “blazing fast” gpu accelerated terminal really didn’t make much of a difference on human timescales. Now I’m at the point where I appreciate the features over the performance.

          1. In reply to Brody’s point, I’m inclined to say “yes, and…?”

          OMZ automates a lot. Sure, I could follow his way of manulaly sourcing dozens of individual shellscripts and making my own aliases and have a zshrc 1200 lines long… Or I could just let omz handle it.

          Yes it’s mostly just a plugin manager, and…? Yes it automates a process I could do manually, and… ? Yes, it uses bindings that I didn’t personally write, and… ?

          Fuck off with the clickbait “You’re living your life wrong, do this lifehack instead!!!” (and the lifehack is to reinvent the wheel) bullshit

          Here’s a fun real lifehack: try things out for yourself, don’t just listen to and parrot other people’s opinions, don’t be afraid to go against the grain. Way more fun and fulfilling that way!