What's a handy terminal command you use often?

cybercitizen4@lemm.ee · 9 months ago

What's a handy terminal command you use often?

some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org · 9 months ago

cd every single day.

InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · edit-2 9 months ago

You haven’t discovered exa? Noob

/s

LEVI@feddit.org · edit-2 2 months ago

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unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone · edit-2 8 months ago

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jbk@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 months ago

Control + D

unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone · edit-2 8 months ago

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sgtnasty@lemmy.ml · 9 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.

toastal@lemmy.ml · 9 months ago

GNU Parallel

BigLime@lemmy.ml · 9 months ago

Neofetch

Sneezycat@sopuli.xyz · 9 months ago

Get on with the times, install fastfetch ;)

electric_nan@lemmy.ml · 9 months ago

Saving this thread for later, but I use rsync -a a lot.

blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world · 9 months ago

Have you heard of our lord and saviour rclone?

I haven’t gone back to rsync in a long time.

macattack@lemmy.world · edit-2 9 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 }

lluki@feddit.org · 9 months ago

xdg-open FILE - opens a file with the default GUI app. I use it for example to open PDFs and PNG. I have a one letter alias for that. It can also open a file explorer in the current directory xdg-open . . Should work on any compliant desktop environment (gnome/kde).

berryjam@lemmy.world · 9 months ago

qalc

pyr0ball@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 9 months ago

Going to shamelessly plug my custom bashrc setup which has a ton of little scripting helpers and a few useful aliases. Remember to clone recursively if you want to try it out. (Still very much a work in progress, but it’s getting to be pretty robust)

https://GitHub.com/pyr0ball/PRbL-bashrc.git

/home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee · 9 months ago

Neofetch

potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish · 9 months ago

let me guess, you either use arch or gentoo

/home/pineapplelover@lemm.ee · 9 months ago

You caught me. (I use arch btw)

LazaroFilm@lemmy.world · 9 months ago

cd then ls then cd then ls maybe I’ll throw a la -a

vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 months ago

I use -A instead, which doesn’t show “.” and “…”

blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world · 9 months ago

Nah you gotta alias ls -a to la for more efficiency.

JackbyDev@programming.dev · 9 months ago

papertowels@lemmy.one · 9 months ago

Don’t forget your pwd thrown in to get back your bearings!

RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 9 months ago

CTR + u will delete the whole command. I use that a lot so I don’t have to backspace. It’s saved me a ton of time

darvit@lemmy.darvit.nl · 9 months ago

How about ctrl+c to cancel and clear the command you are typing? It’s much easier because you only need 1 hand, and does not impact your shell’s history.

call_me_xale@lemmy.zip · 9 months ago

Related: Alt + ., to cycle through arguments used in previous commands

emergencybird@lemmy.world · 9 months ago

This is great for when you type in your root password incorrectly!

potentiallynotfelix@lemmy.fish · 9 months ago

I just use control C, is there a difference other than whether the line shows up or not?

AnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.works · 9 months ago

And then ctrl+y to paste it back and recover that text.