sudo !!to rerun last command as sudo.historycan be paired with!5to run the fifth command listed in history.Fifth as in fifth most recent command or fifth oldest?
I believe it's the fifth oldest - I think
!-5will get you the fifth impost recent, but I was shown that and haven't put it into practice.The most common usecase I do is something like
history | grep dockerto find docker commands I've ran, then use!followed by the number associated with the command I want to run in history.
@[email protected] I've been working in the bash shell since 1993 and did not know
sudo !!was a thing. Good lord, I no longer have to press up, press crtl-left a bunch of times, then type sudo enter space anymore. And I can give it an easy-to-remember alias like 'resu' or 'redo'! Ahahaha, this changes everything! Thank you!!We're all learning tricks in this thread! Grateful for all y'all nerds.
Love these, I used a terminal select from history with fuzzy finding to do the !5 as
redo
cdthenlsthencdthenlsmaybe I’ll throw als -aI use -A instead, which doesn't show "." and ".."
Nah you gotta alias ls -a to la for more efficiency.
l
Don't forget your
pwdthrown in to get back your bearings!Done be silly, that's part of my prompt.
tldrbecause I am too impatient to read through man pages or google the exact syntax for what I want to do.There are exactly three kinds of manpages:
- Way too detailed
- Not nearly detailed enough
- There is no manpage
I will take 1 any day over 2 or 3. Sometimes I even need 1, so I'm grateful for them.
But holy goddamn is it awful when I just want to use a command for aguably its most common use case and the flag or option for that is lost in a crowd of 30 other switches or buried under some modal subcommand.
grephelps if you already know the switch, which isn't always.You could argue commands like this don't have "arguably most common usecases", so manpages should be completely neutral on singling out examples. But I think the existence of tl;dr is the counterargument.
Tangent complaint: I thought the Unix philosophy was "do one thing, and do it well"? Why then do so many of these shell commands have a billion options? Mostly /s but sometimes it's flustering.
tldris great. Basically a crowd-sourced alternative tomanwith 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 --rebindWell....slap my ass and call me Mary.....
Thanks kind internet stranger!:O
Woah, that's dope as heck. Thank you!
Sudo !!
It reruns the last command as sudo.
Pretty useful since I'm always forgetting.
Most commands soon followed by sudo !!
sudo udevadm monitor
Figuring out which usb device went on holiday.
Wow, super useful command. Starring this comment
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 -5Note:
historydisplays like this for me20622 2023-02-18 16:41:23 lsI 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 5to target the command. Use-f 5-7to include flags and arguments.My top 5 (since last install)
2002 ls 1296 cd 455 hx 427 g 316 findgis 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
lstolcould 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; doneIn .bash_aliases I've added
alias b='hx ${HOME}/.bash_aliases'to quickly edit aliases andalias r='source ${HOME}/.bashrc'to reload them.control+R
in bash, it lets you quickly search for previously executed commands.
its very useful and makes things much quicker, i recommend you give it a try.
I use this constantly
clearbecause 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)
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.
Since nobody has said yet, I use screen pretty heavily. Want to run a long running task, starting it from your phone? Run screen to create a detachable session then the long running command. You can then safely close out of your terminal or detach with ctrl a, d and continue in your terminal doing something else. screen -r to get back to it.
I recently switched to tmux and boy, it's way better. I basically use only tmux now anymore. Creating panes to have two processes in one glance, multiple windows, awesome. Plus all the benefits of screen.
Try zellij. Not as popular as tmux, but very intuitive to use.
Maybe someone reading wants to now about
prefix+s. This doubles your excitement.
Also, screen can connect to an UART device or serial or anything that offers up a TTY
How does screen / tmux work when detached from a session, how does it keep the session alive (both when running locally, and while ssh:ing to a server)? Is there a daemon involved?
You can find out by running screen and executing pstree, that way you can see how the screen process is run.
Not a specific command, but I learned recently you can just dump any executable script into ~/bin and run it from the terminal.
I suffer greatly from analysis paralysis, I have a very hard time making decisions especially if there's many options. So I wrote a script that reads a text file full of tasks and just picks one. It took me like ten minutes to write and now I spend far more time doing stuff instead of doing nothing and feeling badly that I can't decide what to do.
This is because
$HOME/binis in your$PATHenvironment variable. You can add more paths that you'd like to execute scripts from, like a personal git repo that contains your scripts.I think the standard is ~/.local/bin, for the people that like standards.
or add it to path
After using too much WINE, I type
pwd,whoamiAs primarily a Windows admin (Yes, we exist on Lemmy ;) ) here are few I use often.
Enter-PSSesionGet-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-Tableformats piped input as a table.)fl(short forformat-like. Used likeftbut for lists.)Where-ObjectSelect-Object
Fucking hell Lol 😂
There are dozens of us.
Also, I'll add:
- Get-Help
- Get-Command
- Get-Member
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.
Uhhh...
sudo suDon't be like me
sudo -i
clear. Constantly, and for no reason.i’d like to introduce you to your new best friend: reset… it doesn’t everything clear does and a LOT more
haha, I can relate to that :). formerly I had the compulsion to execute sync frequently. Now my compulsion is to push Ctrl-C like 4 times every time I need it. I read somewhere that's common because of ^C has a lack of feedback to the user, so, a script showing an alert that the clipboard received some information helped with this compulsion.
cdevery single day.You haven't discovered
exa? Noob/s
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
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
Related: Alt +
., to cycle through arguments used in previous commandsI just use control C, is there a difference other than whether the line shows up or not?
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.
This is great for when you type in your root password incorrectly!
And then ctrl+y to paste it back and recover that text.
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).ls
ls -ltrc
Show most recently modified files.
slChoo choo!
A lemming of taste
sudo pacman -Syu
ll
df -h
du -sch
Ctrl+r
ll
Is an alias for
ls -alyea?
I set mine to
ls -lAhI have it as
ls -alFh
- man
- fd
- entr
- rg
- gitui
- nvim
- tee
- cd
- mv
- rm
- ls
- tmux
- btop
- yazi
- du
- xargs
- cat
- less
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.
On my desktop:
df -hto check disk usagehtopto see resource usagelllist directory contentsI recently found btop and am trying to use that instead of htop.
looks up btop ooooo
Btop is an amazing resource monitor
Have you tried glances?
Never heard of it, looks cool but not as pretty as btop. Also has a ton of information I don't personally care about so for me it doesn't seem great.
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.
nmtui. But that's because my router is trash.
I recently learned to use a for loop on the command line to organize hundreds of files in a few seconds.
Example of said Black Magik?
Let's say, for example, you have a directory of files named x01-001; x01-002; x02-001; x02-002; x03-001... and so on.
I want to create subdirectories for each 'x' iteration and move each set to the corresponding subdirectory. My loop would look like this:
for i in {1..3}; do mkdir Data_x0$i && mv x0$i* Data_x0$i; done
I've also been using it if I need to rename large batches of files quickly.
ncdu
Not a command but bang expansions. For example
!?is the args of last command useful for stuff likemkdir foo ; cd !?https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/bash-bang-commands learn these. you suck at using your computer if you don't know them.
Is there something similar in fish shell?
For Debian based/descended distros:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgradeAnd technically I also regularly use
redshift -O 3000all 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.
topgradedoes this and and a lot more
jqNeofetch
let me guess, you either use arch or gentoo
You caught me. (I use arch btw)
ls -alI 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 isls -lhain addition to whatever color coding stuff is there by default.Another
lsalias I'm a fan of isls -latrwhich I alias tolt. It gives you a time sorted directory listing with the most recent next to your cursor (helpful for large directories).
I've recently started using
tmuxwhen starting a new SSH session to try to build the habit.nano
The one downvote is from the Vim user
The one downvote is from the Vim user
g-pushwhich is alias forgit push origin `git branch --show`Which I'm writing on my phone without testing or looking
Seems like an appropriate place to share https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
I'm a fan of ripgrep and lsd in particular.
I use
atuin(link) all the timeGNU Parallel
Getting cheatsheets via
curl cheat.sh/INSERT_COMMAND_HERENo install necessary, Also, you can quickly search within the cheatsheets via
~. For example if you copycurl cheat.sh/ls~findwill show all the examples oflsthat usefind. If you remove~find, then it shows all examples ofls.I have a function in my bash alias for it (also piped into
morefor readability):function cht() { curl cheat.sh/"$1"?style=igor|more }history | fzfAwesome, didn't know fzf yet
Fzf is so useful its ridiculous. I recreated the functionality of sshs with fzf and a small bash script.
Check out the fzf docs. It ships with helpers that offer better shell integration than you're getting here.
du -sh /too/barto get size of files/folders.sudo !!inserts sudo into previous command when forgotten.yayfor full system update if yay is installed.catreads files.I do love
fuck.And you mistype it as fsck
I use "ping" every time I suspect my internet might be going a bit slow.
sudo rm -rf /
Very powerful yet helpful command :-)
Someone has to say this. Don't do it anyone
Agree. Don’t just copy and paste CLI commands you find on the internet, suggested by a stranger
For reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rm_(Unix)
The rm -rf / variant of the command, if run by a superuser, would cause every file accessible from the present file system to be deleted from the machine.
The most deceptive joke I've seen on this is
sudo rm -fr /to remove the French language pack
I did this on my personal computer just to prove a point.
touch😏I remember
touch
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)
I really like how nushell can parse output into it's native structures called tables using the
detectcommand.Unlike string outputs, tables allow for easy data manipulation through pipes like
select foowill 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
detectcommand.There's are few more shells that do that though nu is the most mature one I've seen so far.
qmv -f do ${dir}
... for quickly moving and renaming files. The default 'qmv' opens up your preferred text editor with a list of the source and destination name of the directory of files you want to move/rename. The '-f do' tells the command we only want to see/edit the [d]estination [o]nly. If you need to rename/move a bunch of files, it's much quicker to do it in vim (at least for me).
It sounds similar to one of my favorite commands! vidir 🙂
locate, from themlocatepackage. So useful. Honorable mention goes out totldr.compgen -backto see all valid things you can type into a shell.Saving this thread for later, but I use rsync -a a lot.
Have you heard of our lord and saviour rclone?
I haven't gone back to rsync in a long time.
I use it to mount cloud storage as network drives... I'll have to look into your implication though!
Zoxide, dust, fd, rg, btm, tokei. So many newer Rust tools that are way better than the old stuff.
sudo
doas
rangerIf you change the colours to night mode, the song "Sister Christian" starts playing
not sure if it counts as a command, but i use the up arrow to scroll through previous commands like, almost every time I open a terminal.
Ctrl-R: (type something)
qalcrsync
I use it to backup important work to an external drive.
less,watchplzfrom https://github.com/m1guelpf/plz-cliCtrl-r with https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin is amazing. Never forget a command you used ever again.
I trigger it with the up arrow.
$ z
A great cd alternative
Also $ sudo paru -Syu
I think you can run paru without sudo and it should still do privilege escalation no problem
oh yes, i was thinking about pacman when writing haha
Neofetch
Get on with the times, install fastfetch ;)
I often play an old DOS game in DOSBox, and when I exit it doesn't reset the screen resolution. So I reset it manually by typing
xrandr -output e-DP1 -autoNeofetch
I just think it's neat.
It's been abandoned btw. People recommend to switch to alternatives. Fastfetch and hyfetch seem to be the best ones rn.
Though I can't confirm as I wrote my own minimal fetch
Works just fine for me
flac -t *git<Esc>[2J<Esc>[H
Is one of my favorites. Of course, most of you are too young to know what that means.
Is that easier than typing
clear? Also, not sure why you'd say something like that about people's age. Anyone using terminals today is often going to run into weird quirks of them being around for decades even if they're young.In the days before *nx, "terminal" meant a VT terminal and "clear" wasn't a thing.
