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100% agree with CTRL-R. It changed my life. Others that I love: screen, pdsh, perl -pi -e 's/find/replace/g' *.txt redis-cli's new ability to have piped in data be the last argument of a command. vim -o file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt (opening multiple files with vim) Using vim instead of less as a pager: cat file.txt | vim -
vimpager. Set vim as your pager. I love reading man pages in syntax-colored vim glory.
That reddit thread is delightful, because it is full of wonderful commands that I didn't know, or rarely use, or had forgotten. But it's also terrifying, because it exposes how many people will post questions before using man.
872K ./Desktop
78M ./Documents
3.2G ./DownloadsThis is useful for finding and killing a process. ps -A | grep some text in program name upon getting the pid kill -9 pid
Nobody knows this: the bash extension $ diff -u Internally, bash creates a pipe and passes /dev/fd/XXX to the main command.
$ ls a b
a:
1 2 3 4
b:
1 2 3
# Yours:
$ diff -u Not really a command but this: mv /path/to/some/file.{jpg,png} Has been a huge timesaver. It's the same as mv /path/to/some/file.jpg /path/to/some/file.png But saves you the typing/copy pasting the path for the second argument. Can also be used with cp etc.
Step 1: Think "I wish I could do X."
Step 2: Google/duckduckgo "How to do X in bash"
Step 3: Delight that a simple solution already exists.
This method is successful in 95% of all cases.
tee piping to a log file with tee, while still seeing normal stdout on screen
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Never thought to use ``. I always used xargs: find . -name *.java | xargs cat | wc -l
Your approach works better than backtick expansion, since it won't run into 'command line too long' issues; but it will still break on "weird" file names (e.g., file names with spaces in them). The correct way to do this is find . -name *.java -print0 | xargs -0 cat | wc -l
find . -name '*.java' -print0 | xargs -0 cat | wc -l100% agree with CTRL-R. It changed my life. Others that I love: screen, pdsh, perl -pi -e 's/find/replace/g' *.txt redis-cli's new ability to have piped in data be the last argument of a command. vim -o file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt (opening multiple files with vim) Using vim instead of less as a pager: cat file.txt | vim -