tldrbecause I am too impatient to read through man pages or google the exact syntax for what I want to do.Sudo !!
It reruns the last command as sudo.
Pretty useful since I’m always forgetting.
cdevery single day.Seems like an appropriate place to share https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
I’m a fan of ripgrep and lsd in particular.
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.
slNot 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?
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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 commands
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.
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.
atools, which includesals,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/ …unitsbc- a calculator that’s actually goodpass- the only non-shit password store tool i’ve found so far. no gui, uses gpg and git to do the encrypting and storage/sharingalias lr='ls -lrth'- so you can easily find the newest file, cos that’s frequently what you wantunip- my script to look up things in the unicode dbfind -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
ls
jqsudo pacman -Syu
I just aliased “sudo pacman -Syu && yay -Syu --aur” to “update” cause I got tired of writing it every day.
You can just run
yaywith no arguments and it does exactly what your update script does.Huh, the more you know.
