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Re: "Favorite command/program?"
It's amazing what you can achieve with awk. I didn't fully appreciate it until I became a sysadmin and text reporting/wranging was a regular occurrence.
May 30 · 2 weeks ago
ncdu is fantastic
I really like z:
Moving around the filesystem after setting up z is magical. After setting it up, it builds up a db of your most frequent/recent directories and lets you jump around using a search query. Previous to this, I would manually keep up a dir stack using bash built-ins pushd/popd, but using z is more flexible and helps to keep me in the flow.
e.g.
~$ cd projects/my-special-project
~/projects/my-special-project$ cd
~$ z sp
~/projects/my-special-project$ z ff
~/projects/ffmpeg$ z usi
~/music$
🐰 bubstance · May 30 at 23:39:
Distrobox.
task is my favorite command, for the amazing taskwarrior task management program. Either that, or taskwarrior-tui (I always alias it as tt for quick access).
It's a very powerful, very low friction to-do list. Syncs between my devices seamlessly. Highly recommend it.
I use timewarrior for tracking the time I spend on each project for work.
`l`, aliased to `ls -lA`
qmv for bulk editting of directories or files
Hard do say. I’ve weird sentiment for Git. I remember looking for Gitg (GNOME Git thingy) alternative. I’ve tried git-cola, tig, gitui and something else. But nothing catch my eye. While I love CLI applications I’m not sold on the whole TUI idea, except of some applications which doesn’t really need to display more than few lines of colorful or not text (Kakoune, vim and family). And some time ago kind soul on IRC pointed me to few interesting flags in Git commands (git log -p, git add -p etc.) and this way of using Git clicked immediately.
But I really like Kakoune, too – My editor!
I'm a big fan of sftp; it's nice to be able to poke around on my file server and then download what I'm looking for in the same process.
| Bui I really like Kakoune, too - My editor!
Ha, I've recently started using it, coming from Emacs
Favorite command/program? — does anyone else have a command they like using the most? for me, its btop just because it works really well as a screensaver and saves me a ton of time.