xdg-open FILE - opens a file with the default GUI app. I use it for example to open PDFs and PNG. I have a one letter alias for that. It can also open a file explorer in the current directory xdg-open . . Should work on any compliant desktop environment (gnome/kde).
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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)
qalc
cd then ls then cd then ls maybe Iโll throw a ls -a
I use -A instead, which doesn't show "." and ".."
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Uhhh...sudo su
Don't be like me
sudo -i
Btop is an amazing resource monitor
Have you tried glances?
Never heard of it, looks cool but not as pretty as btop. Also has a ton of information I don't personally care about so for me it doesn't seem great.
clear because apparently I am too scatterbrained to comprehend more than one full page of text in the terminal
I almost never use clear because i'm afraid if i will need the text later.(just like infinity tab number on firefox)
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I went a little overboard and wrote a one-liner to accurately answer this question
history|cut -d " " -f 5|sort|uniq -c|sort -nr|head -5
Note: history displays like this for me
20622 2023-02-18 16:41:23 ls
I don't know if that's because I set HISTTIMEFORMAT='%F %T ' in .bashrc, or if it's like that for everyone.
If it's different for you change -f 5 to target the command. Use -f 5-7 to include flags and arguments.
My top 5 (since last install)
2002 ls
1296 cd
455 hx
427 g
316 find
g is an alias for gitui. When I include flags and arguments most of the top commands are aliases, often shortcuts to a project directory.
Not to ramble, but after doing this I figured I should alias the longest, most-used commands (even aliasing ls to l could have saved 2002 keystrokes :P) So I wrote another one-liner to check for available single characters to alias with:
for c in a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z; do [[ ! $(command -v $c) ]] && echo $c; done
In .bash_aliases I've added alias b='hx ${HOME}/.bash_aliases' to quickly edit aliases and alias r='source ${HOME}/.bashrc' to reload them.
Helix?
Yup! Migrated from VSCodium; wanted to learn a modal editor but didn't have the time or confidence to configure vim or neovim. It's been my go-to editor for 2+ years now.
I've been using vi (just the basics) for ~4 years, I don't think I could be arsed to pick up the keybindings the other way around lol. I've heard very good things about Helix, of course
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Holy shit, you're a madman
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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.