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The Fabulous Brain-Fart Command

Sometimes I forget the little scripts and applications I have (or have made) to make my life at the terminal a little easier.

For those moments, I have a little script called **brainfart**.

I use the awesome "notes" script by Tim Perry, which I've written about before.

Delightful Notes With Bash

One of those notes is called 'brainFart.md' and I have a shortcut that'll print it's contents to the screen by running "notes cat hack/brainFart".

So if I forget a command, I can run brainfart at the terminal and get a list of commands that I tend to forget. And if I find myself forgetting the name of a command, I add it to the brainFart note.

Example output

$ brainfart

at                   # execute a one-off command at a certain date/time
batch                # execute command when sys resources are available
cheat <application>  # usage cheat-sheet
date -d '+30day'     # date 30 days from now
dotfile              # fish function for managing dotfile git tracking
easytag              # gui for editing id3 music tags
epr                  # epub reader
freeplane            # replaces freemap
gpg --verify <file> <sigfile> # verify a file against sig
gpg --keyserver hkp://keys.gnupg.net --recv-keys <key> # downloads public key
gourmet              # recipe app
lxappearance         # theme gtk windows
random_username      # generate random username
rsync -sh --progress <files> <destination> # copy file(s) with progress
rscp <files> <dest>  # fish function to copy with rsync (as above)
soffice --headless --convert-to pdf <filename.doc>  # convert doc to pdf
t[imetrap]           # time tracking
    t in [desc.]         # log in
    t out                # log out
    t display -v         # show entries
    t edit               # edit entry (defaults to last one)
        * date/time format YYYY-MM-DD.HH:MM
tmaps                # CLI mind maps
today                # Lists Remind events for today
tornewcircuit        # Fish function to create new tor circuit
uname -r             # find running kernel version

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