Fish once again undefeated. If I want to find that weird image magick command I used earlier with foo.png in it I just type foo.png, hit up and its usually the first one. It doesnt matter where foo.png occurs in the command, fish will find it.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 4 points 6 days ago

I write part of the command then ctrl+r. Using FZF mind you. Such a great utility.

[–] janAkali@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

zsh-autosuggestions
history | fzf
alias cat="bat --plain --theme=gruvbox-dark"

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Aliasing cat or any other ubiquitous shell utility to a replacement is a mistake. Garuda did this, and it was driving me crazy why cat was giving me errors. Turns out that they had aliased bat to cat, and since bat is a different program, it didn't work in exactly the same way, and an update had introduced some unexpected behavior.

Drop-in replacements are dumb. Just learn to use a different command.

[–] janAkali@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I think it's ok to add this in a personal .zshrc, not on a distro level:

If it breaks something - I'd probably know why and can easily fix it by removing alias/calling cat directly.

Also, scripts almost always use bash or sh in shebang, not zsh. So it only triggers if I type cat in terminal.

[–] crater2150@feddit.org 2 points 6 days ago

Also, even zsh scripts don't read your .zshrc by default.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It's better to learn the new command, then it still works when you use a different machine that doesn't have your alias

[–] janAkali@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 days ago

If you are me, there is no brain space for remembering new commands. I can already barely hold on to few dozens that I use often. And occasionally when I need "that one that does that niche thing... how was it?" program - I just sit there sifting through logs for couple minutes.

Today it was od (tbh it's od almost half the time; not really the best name to memorize (I really need to make a note or something, so I stop forgetting it, lol))

Also, for this reason I went to great lengths to keep my ~/.zsh_history protected from being randomly deleted/overwritten by mistake, as it happened a couple of times. Currently it's sitting at around 30_000 lines, oldest command is 2 years old.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 91 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've been using ctrl + R more now :3.. though I definitely used to ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑

[–] sbeak@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

Woah Ctrl R looks super cool, never knew that I could do that before…

[–] I_Am_Jacks_____@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

check out fzf (install fzf and add (assuming bash) eval "$(fzf --bash)" to your .bashrc) Makes ctrl+r a superpower

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[–] tyler@programming.dev 22 points 1 week ago

Ctrl + r with fzf and you’ll never go back.

[–] iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (4 children)

...until you press up one too many times and enter the same command but with a typo. Again.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 10 points 1 week ago

Been there, done that.

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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ctrl R

[–] sol6_vi@lemmy.makearmy.io 0 points 6 days ago

holy fucking shit 🤌💪🤯❤️💯

[–] aeharding@vger.social 34 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The number of people who don’t reverse-I-search is too damn high

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It was quite a while before I realised that was possible.
Then not long after starting to use it, that I got fed up and just started opening up the history file and searching in it.

[–] dropcase@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

why not history | grep -i and the search term?

even if there are several, you can use ! and the command's line number to run it again

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 1 points 6 days ago

history is shell dependent.

[–] derpgon@programming.dev 26 points 1 week ago

CTRL+R for those unitiated

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[–] mvirts@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (2 children)

[–] veni_vedi_veni@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

and whenever you forget to sudo: sudo !!

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[–] bandwidthcrisis@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Ctrl-r, l ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r. To get ls.

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[–] Mad_Punda@feddit.org 17 points 1 week ago

I’ve probably done that for ls

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

taptaptaptap.... taptaptaptap.... taptaptaptap taptaptaptap taptaptaptap

.... taptaptaptap

... tap ...

... shit I was on a different user when I typed it.

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[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 13 points 1 week ago (8 children)

Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1168/

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

tar -jcvf archive.tbz ~/stuff/*

Of course I don't know the bomb had bzip2 on it.. I wonder if we can start with ls to see if there's anything to tar or untar

[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

tar -xvf

but only because I had to look it up twice so now my brain has committed it to memory
I don't even know what it does

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[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

O(n) access, very efficient.

No, I do not care to share the value of n

[–] ezekielmudd@reddthat.com 12 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Or, just type the command “history”, find the index number of the desired command, then type “! ”, then .

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 week ago

That's way more mental effort than pressing up a bunch of times.

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[–] pcouy@lemmy.pierre-couy.fr 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin is a great tool to manage and search your shell history. I especially enjoy it being able to search commands based on the working directory I was in when I ran them.

It also has more features (which I don't use) to manage dotfiles and sync shell history across hosts/devices.

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[–] freewheel@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Substring completion on ZSH. Type in a small part of the command you want to find and then press up.

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[–] SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

In fish, you can enter part of the command, and then press up to search for it. It's kinda awesome.

[–] RedSnt@feddit.dk 2 points 6 days ago

That's what I do in bash except for pressing up it's ctrl+r. FZF does the fuzzy finding for me. It's so convenient.

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