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What's a handy terminal command you use often? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 day ago by cybercitizen4@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

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

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Chuck the -y in there for extra lazy mode

[–] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 hours ago

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.