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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Btop is an amazing resource monitor

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (6 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

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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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (7 children)

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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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (7 children)

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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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (7 children)

sudo rm -rf /

Very powerful yet helpful command :-)

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I did this on my personal computer just to prove a point.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (10 children)

You might like eza even more!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Chuck the -y in there for extra lazy mode

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 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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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

The one downvote is from the Vim user

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 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

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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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[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

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[โ€“] alsimoneau 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
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