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What's a handy terminal command you use often? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

ls -al

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] jbrains 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You might like lsd even more than that!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Hmm, that's not working for me. You mean use those as options? 'ls -eza'?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, it's like an ls replacement: https://github.com/eza-community/eza

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Aha. Well, I guess I'm not the target audience because I can't be bothered to go through the installation steps. It's not in the LMDE repository, but I wish it were!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

It's pretty easy. You either get it from Cargo (the Rust package manager) or add a custom repo to apt.

Cargo is the easier and safer option: curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh && cargo install eza

Custom apt repo:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y gpg

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eza-community/eza/main/deb.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg] http://deb.gierens.de stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gierens.list
sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gierens.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y eza

In my opinion though, you should also try lsd. It's even better than eza. You can also get it from Cargo, just a simple cargo install lsd.

[–] jbrains 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, eza is one of those modern Rust replacement programs. It replaces ls.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

There's a whole bunch of cool modern replacements. Here's a handy list: altbox.dev

I personally use bat and rg all the time, and find them much more suitable for everyday tasks.

Edit: And to clarify, I didn't create either list, they're just ones I'd bookmarked at some point.

[–] jbrains 2 points 2 months ago

Even better than rg is rga. Indeed, you have a fine list.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The mobile site doesn't have the list. I was so confused.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ew, sorry. This list is similar and more accessible:

https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

A lot of distros include a .bashrc with common ls aliases commented out, just waiting for you to activate them if you like.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Another ls alias I'm a fan of is ls -latr which I alias to lt. It gives you a time sorted directory listing with the most recent next to your cursor (helpful for large directories).