Asklemmy

nmtui. But that's because my router is trash.

diff -y -W 200 file1 file2

Shows a side by side diff of 2 files with enough column width to see most of what I need usually.

I have actually aliased this command as diffy

ctrl-r

searching bash history

du -sh * | sort -h

shows size of all files and dirs in the current dir and sorts them in ascending order so you can easily see the largest files or dirt ant the end of the list

ls -ltr

Shows the most recently modified files at the end of the listing.

ll

df -h

du -sch

Ctrl+r

• man
• fd
• entr
• rg
• gitui
• nvim
• tee
• cd
• mv
• rm
• ls
• tmux
• btop
• yazi
• du
• xargs
• cat
• less

I recently learned to use a for loop on the command line to organize hundreds of files in a few seconds.

ncdu

sudo rm -rf /

Very powerful yet helpful command :-)

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.

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.

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

ls -al

jq

Seems like an appropriate place to share https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps

I'm a fan of ripgrep and lsd in particular.

sudo

Neofetch

nano

exit

I've recently started using tmux when starting a new SSH session to try to build the habit.

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/wiki

g-push which is alias for

git push origin `git branch --show`

Which I'm writing on my phone without testing or looking

I use atuin (link) all the time

history | fzf

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).

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.