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.
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I recently learned to use a for loop on the command line to organize hundreds of files in a few seconds.
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nmtui. But that's because my router is trash.
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.
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jq
ncdu
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.
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Seems like an appropriate place to share https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
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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
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Getting cheatsheets via curl cheat.sh/INSERT_COMMAND_HERE
No install necessary, Also, you can quickly search within the cheatsheets via ~. For example if you copy curl cheat.sh/ls~find will show all the examples of ls that use find. If you remove ~find, then it shows all examples of ls.
I have a function in my bash alias for it (also piped into more for readability):
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g-push which is alias for
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Which I'm writing on my phone without testing or looking
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I've recently started using tmux when starting a new SSH session to try to build the habit.
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