fish has "directory-aware" autocomplete with inlay hints and a fantastic history command. I do not suffer from such weakness
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also when they see this post
$ history | grep 'gre[p]' | less -S
Does fuck all when you can't remember even a piece of the command lol
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I always go past it because I go way to fast.
I have more then once gave up on pressing up, hit ctrl + c to reset only to see the command I wanted briefly flash up as I am hitting ctrl + c
Wow this is really validating for me to read. I’ve been using Linux for a few years but I’m definitely not a computer expert and am intimidated by the command line.
I’ve always felt like googling every command and arrowing up to find an old entry rather than just googling it again marked me as a fake Linux user, not a real one.
Lol don't feel bad, I can do advanced crazy shit with Linux like pivoting the running OS into RAM so I can unmount the boot drive to do whatever without ever rebooting
But I still [Web Search] commands a shit ton of the time LMAO
You can use Ctrl-R and Ctrl-Shift-R to search through your history instead of having to push up a bajillion times.
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history | grep then !cmd no
grep | history [search term]
I think you meant
history | grep [search term]
(which was id 1003 for me btw)
You have to be a linux user to use the console now?
I accidentally found out one day that I could use a wildcard operator in the terminal instead of a full file or folder name due to always doing this.
cd Pho* or cd /documents/Pho*
Will for example open my "Photo Examples" folder in the working directory or based on the path
With ZSH there's something called "path-completion" that makes that even easier.
Say you want to go to "/usr/local/share/fonts" but that's too much to type out, you can instead type "cd /u/l/s/f" and hit tab. If every path element is unambiguous it will just expand it to "/usr/local/share/fonts". In this case though, "/u/l/" can expand to "/usr/local" or "/usr/lib" so when you hit tab it moves the cursor to just after the "l" to indicate it needs you to distinguish between "/usr/local/" and "/usr/lib". If you just type "o" and hit tab again, it will know that there's only one match for "/usr/lo" and expand that to "/usr/local/" Then there's only one match for "s" which is "share", and only one match for "f" which is "fonts".
That avoids the danger of executing a command with an asterisk wildcard.
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You can use || between two commands as well. If the first command returns exit code != 0, the second command will run.
I.e. which ansible || pip install ansible.
Or && for if you only want the second command to run if the first command succeeded.
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I'm in this picture, and I didn't like it....
...Yeah, you got me.
- zsh-autosuggestions
history | fzfalias cat="bat --plain --theme=gruvbox-dark"
Aliasing cat or any other ubiquitous shell utility to a replacement is a mistake. Garuda did this, and it was driving me crazy why cat was giving me errors. Turns out that they had aliased bat to cat, and since bat is a different program, it didn't work in exactly the same way, and an update had introduced some unexpected behavior.
Drop-in replacements are dumb. Just learn to use a different command.
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zsh tab completion also looks through history wich is pretty nice.