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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.
ncdu
I recently learned to use a for loop on the command line to organize hundreds of files in a few seconds.
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.
ls -al
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.
jq
Seems like an appropriate place to share https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
I'm a fan of ripgrep and lsd in particular.
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.
I've recently started using tmux
when starting a new SSH session to try to build the habit.
exit
g-push
which is alias for
git push origin `git branch --show`
Which I'm writing on my phone without testing or looking
du -sh /too/bar
to get size of files/folders. sudo !!
inserts sudo into previous command when forgotten. yay
for full system update if yay is installed. cat
reads files.
I use "ping" every time I suspect my internet might be going a bit slow.