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What's a handy terminal command you use often?

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DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone
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ls -al

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walden@sub.wetshaving.social
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I learned you can edit .bashrc (in your home dir) and update the alias for ls to include what I like. It has saved me lots of keystrokes. Mine is ls -lha in addition to whatever color coding stuff is there by default.

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jbrains@sh.itjust.works
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You might like eza even more!

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walden@sub.wetshaving.social
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Hmm, that’s not working for me. You mean use those as options? ‘ls -eza’?

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Noxious@fedia.io
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You might like lsd even more than that!

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4am@lemm.ee
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A lot of distros include a .bashrc with common ls aliases commented out, just waiting for you to activate them if you like.

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avguser@lemmy.world
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Another ls alias I’m a fan of is ls -latr which I alias to lt. It gives you a time sorted directory listing with the most recent next to your cursor (helpful for large directories).

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Nicht BurningTurtle@feddit.org
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nmtui. But that’s because my router is trash.

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majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com
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On my desktop: df -h to check disk usage htop to see resource usage ll list directory contents

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Albbi@lemmy.ca
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I recently found btop and am trying to use that instead of htop.

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majestictechie@lemmy.fosshost.com
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looks up btop ooooo

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emb@lemmy.world
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I really like that cd command. :P

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Jeena@piefed.jeena.net
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Hm I wonder, is it really a command? I thought it is just a function of the shell to change the working directory.

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ClassifiedPancake@discuss.tchncs.de
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A command is anything you execute in the shell.

cd is just a built-in command

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unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
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You’ll love zoxide then.

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jeffreyosborne@lemm.ee
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On arch the command is just z

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Yoddel_Hickory@lemmy.ca
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The command is ‘z’

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alsimoneau@lemmy.ca
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When you set it up you tell it which command you want. Default is “cdi” but I changed it to “cd” immediately.

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blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
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ll

df -h

du -sch

Ctrl+r

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notfromhere@lemmy.ml
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ll

Is an alias for

ls -al

yea?

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subtext@lemmy.world
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I set mine to

ls -lAh
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blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk
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I have it as ls -alFh

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