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submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago

You can list your aliases in bash pretty readily.

$ alias
alias emacs='emacs --no-site-file'
alias ls='ls --color=tty -v'
$
[-] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago

I, too, like my ls to show titty colours.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)
$ git clone https://github.com/sharkdp/vivid.git
$ cd vivid && cargo build && cd ..
$ grep -v "^  nord" <vivid/themes/nord.yml >theme-template.yml
$ csplit theme-template.yml /^colors:/1 -f "theme-template"
$ sudo apt install cimg-dev
$ git clone https://github.com/ImageProcessing-ElectronicPublications/palette.git
$ cd palette
$ mkdir build && cd build && cmake ../ && cmake --build .
$ wget https://titis.org/uploads/posts/2022-01/1641518772_4-titis-org-p-nude-breasts-close-up-erotika-4.jpg
$ convert -crop 2298x1041+1878+1560 1641518772_4-titis-org-p-nude-breasts-close-up-erotika-4.jpg cropped.png
$ ./build/cpluspalette cropped.png 16 -k|tail -n+2|tr -s '[:cntrl:]' '\n'|sed s/^.//|awk "/.*/ {print \"  nord\"NR-1\": '\"\$0\"'\"}" >../titty-colors.txt
$ export LS_COLORS=$(../vivid/target/debug/vivid generate <(cat ../theme-template00 ../titty-colors.txt ../theme-template01))
$ clear
$ ls

Works for that too.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I have an alias named cock and I don't remember what it does

Edit: shit

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

You could say it gave me the opportunity for a hop

[-] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago

Did you remove the French language pack by chance?

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[-] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

This is why I follow linux memes, I don't know if I have ever bumped into CTRL+R but I finally can let go of

history
[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you haven't used them before, there's also ! and ^.

! invokes the last command starting with the following string.

^ searches for the last command containing the first string, replaces that string with the second, and invokes that.

$ ls *.mp4
Episode_One.mp4  Episode_Two.mp4
$ !l
ls *.mp4
Episode_One.mp4  Episode_Two.mp4
$ ^mp4^mp3
ls *.mp3
music.mp3
$
[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I used !<index> Together with history by giving an index displayed in the history list, but did not know that you can use it like that! Also didn't know about ^

Thanks for the tips!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

While you are at it, look up readline shortcuts.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The default ones are the same as in emacs, so if you know emacs, you probably know them too, but Control-U kills (roughly equivalent to "cut" for non-emacs people) from the cursor to the beginning of the line, which emacs doesn't do; that defaults to something like M-- M-1 C-k in emacs.

If you're a vi person, you can do set -o vi and use vi functionality. Hit Esc to go into vi-style command mode.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

In emacs it would be C-u - C-k I think.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

You say this, but then you discover $HISTTIMEFORMAT which helps records when you last ran a command as a comment in the history file and Ctrl+R won't tell you that information.

The hard part with adopting that, though, is editing in plausible looking dates for commands that were issued before it was set up (or choosing not to and dealing with the confusion until those commands disappear off the top of the history).

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

This is pretty much the biggest reason why I like fish. It automatically runs Ctrl+R as soon as you start typing and shows it as auto-completion suggestion.
You would not believe all the things past-me has run in their terminal, that I would never think to Ctrl+R. It's like the AI stuff the whole IT world rages about, except past-me has real intelligence.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

I just load bash.history in Kate or whatever and ctrl-f the command, copy the line, insert that in the terminal, adapt if necessary and go. Unless it's one of the last ten or so I used, then it's just ⬆️⬆️⬇️⬇️⬅️➡️⬅️➡️🅱️🅰️

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

history | grep

I like seeing different usages

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Use control r, and press control r repeatedly after the first find. It will cycle through every result.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah that's what I'm trying to avoid, using grep displays all of my options at once.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

also, put a space before history so the useless searches don't end up in the history

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

This is the way

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I alias h to history | grep

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

I installed atuin a while ago and never looked back

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

Or do as I do, set up aliases for everything and forget out to use the actual commands

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

fzf makes ctrl-r really nice so you use it more often, especially if you use tmux as well.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

check out atuin.sh

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Big fan of both fzf and tmux!

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago
[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Using gs, ga and gc for git bullshit has saved me many a keystroke. They show the current status, last log and prompt me for commit message and everything!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

use abhreviations instead of aliases, bacuase they make your history usable on any other machine

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

How did you abbreviate ls?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

l (underscore L), but it expands to eza with some flags

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I was joking, but I aslo tie it to eza lol

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Good advice!

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I basically exclusively use Ctrl+R. Even if I need to enter all but one characters of the command in question.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I started using CTRL+R with McFly and now I don't use the up arrow, except if I remember it's in the last ~10 commands.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

up arrow

If readline hasn't been reconfigured from the default emacs mode, you can use Control-P and keep your fingers on the home row.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That's what I actually use (and ctrl-r also quite a bit), but up arrow for the meme

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

!$(history | grep | awk '{print $1}' | tail -n1) || echo 'bad search, dummy.'

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[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Ive been using Kali in a lab lately and the terminal seems to remember commands and prefills them. How do I do Something like that in Mint?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

There's probably many different ways to achieve this but I would probably use a shell (zsh or fish) that does this by default

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

I use ctrl+r to the point that for some shorter commands i probably waste more time using it vs just typing it normally

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

i like how it's' easier for me to do less ~/.bash_history | grep <some part of a command i want to us> instead of just doing an alias.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Damn just install fzf

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

i only set aliases for flatpak apps i run on terminal

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