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atools
, which includesals
,aunpack
,apack
. so you can stop caring about the kind of archive and just unpack it. it also saves you from shit archives that have multiple files/dirs in their root.perl -e
/perl -lne
/ ...units
bc
- a calculator that's actually goodpass
- the only non-shit password store tool i've found so far. no gui, uses gpg and git to do the encrypting and storage/sharingalias lr='ls -lrth'
- so you can easily find the newest file, cos that's frequently what you wantunip
- my script to look up things in the unicode dbfind -type f -exec xzgrep 're' {} +
- because xzgrep cant do -r
oh yeah, and for the shell readline, alt-b, alt-f, ctrl-w, ctrl-u, ctrl-k, ctrl-a, ctrl-e
qmv -f do ${dir}
... for quickly moving and renaming files. The default 'qmv' opens up your preferred text editor with a list of the source and destination name of the directory of files you want to move/rename. The '-f do' tells the command we only want to see/edit the [d]estination [o]nly. If you need to rename/move a bunch of files, it's much quicker to do it in vim (at least for me).
locate
, from the mlocate
package. So useful. Honorable mention goes out to tldr
.
I use "ping" every time I suspect my internet might be going a bit slow.
du -sh /too/bar
to get size of files/folders. sudo !!
inserts sudo into previous command when forgotten. yay
for full system update if yay is installed. cat
reads files.
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):
function cht() { curl cheat.sh/"$1"?style=igor|more }
Going to shamelessly plug my custom bashrc setup which has a ton of little scripting helpers and a few useful aliases. Remember to clone recursively if you want to try it out. (Still very much a work in progress, but it's getting to be pretty robust)
I really like how nushell can parse output into it's native structures called tables using the detect
command.
Unlike string outputs, tables allow for easy data manipulation through pipes like select foo
will select foo key and you can filter and even reshape the datasets.
This is great if you need to work with large data pipes like kuberneters so you can do something like:
kubectl get pods --all-namespaces | detect columns | where $it.STATUS !~ "Running|Completed" | par-each { |it| kubectl -n $it.NAMESPACE delete pod $it.NAME }
This looks complex but it parses kubectl table string to table object -> filters rows only where status is not running or completed -> executes pod delete task for each row in parallel.
Nushell take a while to learn but having real data objects in your terminal pipes is incredible! Especially with the detect
command.
There's are few more shells that do that though nu is the most mature one I've seen so far.
Zoxide, dust, fd, rg, btm, tokei. So many newer Rust tools that are way better than the old stuff.
not sure if it counts as a command, but i use the up arrow to scroll through previous commands like, almost every time I open a terminal.
Ctrl-R: (type something)