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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).
ncdu
tldr because I am too impatient to read through man pages or google the exact syntax for what I want to do.
There are exactly three kinds of manpages:
I will take 1 any day over 2 or 3. Sometimes I even need 1, so I'm grateful for them.
But holy goddamn is it awful when I just want to use a command for aguably its most common use case and the flag or option for that is lost in a crowd of 30 other switches or buried under some modal subcommand. grep helps if you already know the switch, which isn't always.
You could argue commands like this don't have "arguably most common usecases", so manpages should be completely neutral on singling out examples. But I think the existence of tl;dr is the counterargument.
Tangent complaint: I thought the Unix philosophy was "do one thing, and do it well"? Why then do so many of these shell commands have a billion options? Mostly /s but sometimes it's flustering.
Sudo !!
It reruns the last command as sudo.
Pretty useful since I'm always forgetting.
Seems like an appropriate place to share https://github.com/agarrharr/awesome-cli-apps
I'm a fan of ripgrep and lsd in particular.
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.
Is there something similar in fish shell?
control+R
in bash, it lets you quickly search for previously executed commands.
its very useful and makes things much quicker, i recommend you give it a try.
CTR + u will delete the whole command. I use that a lot so I don't have to backspace. It's saved me a ton of time
Related: Alt + ., to cycle through arguments used in previous commands
atools, which includes als, 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 / ...unitsbc - 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 -roh yeah, and for the shell readline, alt-b, alt-f, ctrl-w, ctrl-u, ctrl-k, ctrl-a, ctrl-e