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diff -y -W 200 file1 file2
Shows a side by side diff of 2 files with enough column width to see most of what I need usually.
I have actually aliased this command as diffy
ctrl-r
searching bash history
du -sh * | sort -h
shows size of all files and dirs in the current dir and sorts them in ascending order so you can easily see the largest files or dirt ant the end of the list
ls -ltr
Shows the most recently modified files at the end of the listing.
sudo rm -rf /
Very powerful yet helpful command :-)
I did this on my personal computer just to prove a point.
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.
I recently learned to use a for loop on the command line to organize hundreds of files in a few seconds.
ncdu
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.
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
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.
Seems like an appropriate place to share https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
I'm a fan of ripgrep and lsd in particular.
exit
I've recently started using tmux when starting a new SSH session to try to build the habit.
g-push which is alias for
git push origin `git branch --show`
Which I'm writing on my phone without testing or looking