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[-] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

Fish once again undefeated. If I want to find that weird image magick command I used earlier with foo.png in it I just type foo.png, hit up and its usually the first one. It doesnt matter where foo.png occurs in the command, fish will find it.

[-] MashedTech@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago
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[-] janAkali@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
  • zsh-autosuggestions
  • history | fzf
  • alias cat="bat --plain --theme=gruvbox-dark"
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[-] nullPointer@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

zsh tab completion also looks through history wich is pretty nice.

[-] Tiberus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago

I accidentally found out one day that I could use a wildcard operator in the terminal instead of a full file or folder name due to always doing this.

cd Pho* or cd /documents/Pho*

Will for example open my "Photo Examples" folder in the working directory or based on the path

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

You can use || between two commands as well. If the first command returns exit code != 0, the second command will run.

I.e. which ansible || pip install ansible.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Or && for if you only want the second command to run if the first command succeeded.

[-] TheOakTree@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This only works until you grow an addiction to making pho at home and start documenting your progress.

cd "Pho Recipes and Pictures"

[-] DarkAri 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

cd /

sudo rm -rf *

Basically the Linux version of deleting system32 but idk I'm not a super Linux nerd yet.

[-] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

The fun thing is that you can create a file named "-rf *" and hope an admin tried to delete it!

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[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

I'm in this picture, and I didn't like it....

[-] clashorcrashman@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

...Yeah, you got me.

[-] RedSnt@feddit.dk 4 points 2 months ago

I write part of the command then ctrl+r. Using FZF mind you. Such a great utility.

[-] RustyNova@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Oh come on! I at least type the beginning so that it filters the history

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago

The one people see me doing that gets a "huh?" Is:

~$ !find
find -type f -name '*blah*' -print0 | xargs -0 gzip
~$

"Wait! What did you do?" "Oh. Do you not know about bang?"

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[-] Cevilia 3 points 2 months ago

I feel like there should be a cursed "long way round" for this that involves needlessly copying .bash_history to a "text file", running it through an asciibetical sorter (for "efficiency"), using sed to null out any command which doesn't match the search term...

[-] T156@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Being able to just enter a partial command, and hit [up] to jump to prior commands that started in the same way in zsh is a godsend.

[-] Entitle9294@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

If you ever have to go back to bash, it supports it as well. In my bashrc:

bind '"\C-p":history-search-backward'

That's ctrl-p, but I'm sure the up arrow is possible too.

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[-] stealth_cookies@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

This is why I like atuin, I can just press up and start typing part of the command and it will likely find it in my history.

[-] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

You could already do that with just "Ctrl-R" but without atuin redrawing your screen.

[-] Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org 2 points 2 months ago

I wish this wasn't so painfully true.

[-] Quexotic@infosec.pub 2 points 2 months ago

Featherpad, copy, paste. Extra work, but you get a work log

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