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Any extra tips or tricks are welcome!

Yesterday I learned that set -x enables trace for a bash, sh, or zsh script and prints the trace to the terminal.

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In Bash, I like to use cdargs

sudo apt-get install cdargs

It allows you to set up shortcuts on the fly,

cv sdbackup

rather than cd /media/user/Backup Plus/ MyFiles/current/sdbackup

cv with no argument will give you a list to select from current shortcuts

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Of those mentioned, this one intrigues me most. Thanks!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

My answers (mostly running in powershell - not that it makes much of a difference!)

Rust-based utilities I couldn't live without:

  • fd (fd-find) for finding my files
  • rg (ripgrep) for string searches
  • sd (sed) for search and replace
  • dust (dust) for information about my directories
  • lsd (aliased to ls or l) for replacing Dir
  • bat (better cat) - for when the help pages are too long

Other stuff I love:

  • htop - I just learned you can run this in WSL to see all your system cores. It's pretty!
  • nvim - obviously. The best vim. Even works in VSCode
[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I really like jless. You can pipe the JSON output of a cURL command into it and it displays it in a really nice, easy to read way with collapsible arrays and objects.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Always partial to yq and jq. No easier way to interact with kubernetes outputs on the fly.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Don't forget about fq!

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

How I have never heard of yq, I'm unsure, but thank you as I'm sure it will make life easier

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

pv, which is like cat, simply copying files or stdin to stdout, but prints statistics to the terminal.

A related tip: dd isn't special in the way most people use it. This works too, if you're root: pv my-fav-distro.iso > /dev/sdc

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
  • scoop - closest to apt on Windows
  • yt-dlp - active fork of youtube-dl
  • neofetch - System information display
  • winfetch - Same as neofetch, but for windows
  • pandoc - Ultimate converter
  • ffmpeg - must have tool
  • taskwarrior - best task manager imho
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