Fish once again undefeated. If I want to find that weird image magick command I used earlier with foo.png in it I just type foo.png, hit up and its usually the first one. It doesnt matter where foo.png occurs in the command, fish will find it.
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I've been using ctrl + R more now :3.. though I definitely used to ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑
Woah Ctrl R looks super cool, never knew that I could do that before…
check out fzf (install fzf and add (assuming bash) eval "$(fzf --bash)" to your .bashrc)
Makes ctrl+r a superpower
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Ctrl + r with fzf and you’ll never go back.
or documentation.
To use ctrl-r I have to remember something about the command. To use up arrow I just have to know about how many commands ago I used it.
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I knew there was an
ls
In there somewhere
ctrl + r, l, s
Much faster than simply typing ls!
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...until you press up one too many times and enter the same command but with a typo. Again.
Been there, done that.
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Ctrl R
holy fucking shit 🤌💪🤯❤️💯
The number of people who don’t reverse-I-search is too damn high
^r
Ctrl-r, l ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r. To get ls.
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I’ve probably done that for ls
taptaptaptap.... taptaptaptap.... taptaptaptap taptaptaptap taptaptaptap
.... taptaptaptap
... tap ...
... shit I was on a different user when I typed it.
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O(n) access, very efficient.
No, I do not care to share the value of n
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1168/
tar -jcvf archive.tbz ~/stuff/*
Of course I don't know the bomb had bzip2 on it.. I wonder if we can start with ls to see if there's anything to tar or untar
tar -xvf
but only because I had to look it up twice so now my brain has committed it to memory
I don't even know what it does
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Or, just type the command “history”, find the index number of the desired command, then type “! ”, then .
That's way more mental effort than pressing up a bunch of times.
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https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin is a great tool to manage and search your shell history. I especially enjoy it being able to search commands based on the working directory I was in when I ran them.
It also has more features (which I don't use) to manage dotfiles and sync shell history across hosts/devices.
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Substring completion on ZSH. Type in a small part of the command you want to find and then press up.
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In fish, you can enter part of the command, and then press up to search for it. It's kinda awesome.
That's what I do in bash except for pressing up it's ctrl+r. FZF does the fuzzy finding for me. It's so convenient.
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I typed it once, I'm not typing it again
fish has "directory-aware" autocomplete with inlay hints and a fantastic history command. I do not suffer from such weakness
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