tldr
is great. Basically a crowd-sourced alternative toman
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
Well…slap my ass and call me Mary…
Thanks kind internet stranger!:O
Woah, that’s dope as heck. Thank you!
cd
thenls
thencd
thenls
maybe I’ll throw als -a
Nah you gotta alias ls -a to la for more efficiency.
l
I use -A instead, which doesn’t show “.” and “…”
Don’t forget your
pwd
thrown in to get back your bearings!Done be silly, that’s part of my prompt.
As primarily a Windows admin (Yes, we exist on Lemmy ;) ) here are few I use often.
Enter-PSSesion
Get-ADUser
(also group and computer)CLS
(aka the superiorclear
)ii .
(short forInvoke-Item .
which runs the selected object using the default method. For paths (like.
) the default is explorer, soii .
opens the current directory using explorer.)ft
(short forFormat-Table
formats piped input as a table.)fl
(short forformat-like
. Used likeft
but for lists.)Where-Object
Select-Object
Fucking hell Lol 😂
There are dozens of us.
Also, I’ll add:
- Get-Help
- Get-Command
- Get-Member
I went a little overboard and wrote a one-liner to accurately answer this question
history|cut -d " " -f 5|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|head -5
Note:
history
displays like this for me20622 2023-02-18 16:41:23 ls
I don’t know if that’s because I setHISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T '
in .bashrc, or if it’s like that for everyone. If it’s different for you change-f 5
to target the command. Use-f 5-7
to include flags and arguments.My top 5 (since last install)
2002 ls 1296 cd 455 hx 427 g 316 find
g
is an alias for gitui. When I include flags and arguments most of the top commands are aliases, often shortcuts to a project directory.Not to ramble, but after doing this I figured I should alias the longest, most-used commands (even aliasing
ls
tol
could have saved 2002 keystrokes :P) So I wrote another one-liner to check for available single characters to alias with:for c in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z; do [[ ! $(command -v $c) ]] && echo $c; done
In .bash_aliases I’ve added
alias b='hx ${HOME}/.bash_aliases'
to quickly edit aliases andalias r='source ${HOME}/.bashrc'
to reload them.Helix?
Yup! Migrated from VSCodium; wanted to learn a modal editor but didn’t have the time or confidence to configure vim or neovim. It’s been my go-to editor for 2+ years now.
I’ve been using vi (just the basics) for ~4 years, I don’t think I could be arsed to pick up the keybindings the other way around lol. I’ve heard very good things about Helix, of course
As another longtime Vi user - I had a hell of a time & wound up switching back lol
I think for a lot of folks Helix would be intuitive. Vi has her hooks in me, though.
Holy shit, you’re a madman
history -i
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clear
because apparently I am too scatterbrained to comprehend more than one full page of text in the terminalI like using CRTL+L to clear. It’s nice because you can have a command typed out and still be able to press CTRL+L to clear the screen and keep the command typed out.
I almost never use clear because i’m afraid if i will need the text later.(just like infinity tab number on firefox)
<enter> * 20
Oh god I also do this… See the comment below, I ran
history|cut -d " " -f 5|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|less
on my personal laptop, my third most commonly used command (behindls
andcd
) is just typing in nothing…
Use script instead, you can even have it in your .*shrc to run automatically whenever a shell is invoked (make sure to add a check that the shell wasn’t invoked by script, so you don’t inadvertently forkbomb yourself)
Alternatively, just use Terminator as yout terminal emulator and enable the logger anytime you need it to record the shell session.
Also, use bookmarks. That’s what they’re there for. 100 tabs is a great way to clutter your brain, but terrible for productivity. If you forget about it after bookmarking, it wasn’t important to begin with.
100 tabs is in mobile. I don’t even scroll back to clutter my brain but its there. Tabs are history for me… So I use firefox focus and if there is anything important, i open with firefox.
What script are you reffering to? To log all output? I don’t wanna store that but need an assurance that its there till i close terminal window lol
Sorry I didn’t make it clear that it was a command before
ls and cd
I sometimes hit ls and then need to type dir.
The amount of times i tried to dir in linux and ls in windows is mire than I like to admit
Uhhh…
sudo su
Don’t be like me
sudo -i
I use
atuin
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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 directoryxdg-open .
. Should work on any compliant desktop environment (gnome/kde).I really like how nushell can parse output into it’s native structures called tables using the
detect
command.Unlike string outputs, tables allow for easy data manipulation through pipes like
select foo
will select foo key and you can filter and even reshape the datasets.This is great if you need to work with large data pipes like kuberneters so you can do something like:
kubectl get pods --all-namespaces | detect columns | where $it.STATUS !~ "Running|Completed" | par-each { |it| kubectl -n $it.NAMESPACE delete pod $it.NAME }
This looks complex but it parses kubectl table string to table object -> filters rows only where status is not running or completed -> executes pod delete task for each row in parallel.
Nushell take a while to learn but having real data objects in your terminal pipes is incredible! Especially with the
detect
command.There’s are few more shells that do that though nu is the most mature one I’ve seen so far.
exit
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.
I’ve recently started using
tmux
when starting a new SSH session to try to build the habit.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
Chuck the -y in there for extra lazy mode
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.
topgrade
does this and and a lot more
g-push
which is alias forgit push origin `git branch --show`
Which I’m writing on my phone without testing or looking
git config --global alias.pusho 'push --set-upstream origin HEAD'
You’re welcome.
So that’s making
git push
always push to the current branch?When you’re pushing a new branch you’ve never pushed before you need the
-u
command. That’s what this alias is for.As long as the config’s
push.default
isn’tmatching
,git push
without arguments will only push the current branch.
git push origin HEAD
is a slightly shorter way of doing the same thing, even though you have an alias anyway lol