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...until you press up one too many times and enter the same command but with a typo. Again.
Been there, done that.
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The number of people who don’t reverse-I-search is too damn high
^r
Ctrl-r, l ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r. To get ls.
No way! I didn't know you could cycle through the results like that... awesome!
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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.
I typed it once, I'm not typing it again
I’ve probably done that for ls
taptaptaptap.... taptaptaptap.... taptaptaptap taptaptaptap taptaptaptap
.... taptaptaptap
... tap ...
... shit I was on a different user when I typed it.
Or "shit, I did in tmux last time so I could close the terminal window."
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1168/
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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tar --help
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O(n) access, very efficient.
No, I do not care to share the value of n
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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In fish, you can enter part of the command, and then press up to search for it. It's kinda awesome.
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Substring completion on ZSH. Type in a small part of the command you want to find and then press up.
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You have to be a linux user to use the console now?
fish has "directory-aware" autocomplete with inlay hints and a fantastic history command. I do not suffer from such weakness
- zsh-autosuggestions
history | fzfalias cat="bat --plain --theme=gruvbox-dark"
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.
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.
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also when they see this post
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