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

submitted 2 months ago by cybercitizen4@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

exit

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[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

sudo

[–] kaidenshi@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

doas

[–] jbrains@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ranger

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

If you change the colours to night mode, the song "Sister Christian" starts playing

[–] this@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I often play an old DOS game in DOSBox, and when I exit it doesn't reset the screen resolution. So I reset it manually by typing

xrandr -output e-DP1 -auto

[–] Hackerman_uwu@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

rsync

I use it to backup important work to an external drive.

[–] kang@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

$ z

A great cd alternative

Also $ sudo paru -Syu

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[–] LEVI@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

flatpak update

[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 2 points 2 months ago

less, watch

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ctrl-r with https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin is amazing. Never forget a command you used ever again.

[–] eric@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

I trigger it with the up arrow.

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

plz from https://github.com/m1guelpf/plz-cli

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