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I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Post by stoniejohnson »

zem wrote: post #150
brundolf wrote: post #148

I'm curious to hear what people's usecases are for retaining long shell history. For myself, I never really use it beyond the current work day (up arrow)

for work, there are a lot of commands with complex invocations that I do not use regularly enough to bother remembering all the flags. it is really useful to just grep through my full shell history to find all the times I ran that command and just copy/paste the relevant one.

Yep, I do `history | grep ""` all the time..

I should probably make it a function now that I think about it.

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Post by brundolf »

zem wrote: post #150
brundolf wrote: post #148

I'm curious to hear what people's usecases are for retaining long shell history. For myself, I never really use it beyond the current work day (up arrow)

for work, there are a lot of commands with complex invocations that I do not use regularly enough to bother remembering all the flags. it is really useful to just grep through my full shell history to find all the times I ran that command and just copy/paste the relevant one.

It may just be that I don't use the shell very much compared with other people, mostly for building and running local code

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Post by pompino »

goodpoint wrote: post #87
pompino wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are grants, but you have to qualify for them. https://opensource.guide/getting-paid/ https://www.state.gov/supporting-critical-open-source-techno... https://new.nsf.gov/tip/updates/nsf-invests-over-26m-open-so...

Some grants exists but they are really tiny compared to the amount of FOSS that needs funding.

You have to weed out the people who just want to dick-around at home versus people who are actually providing value to society, so the bar is set very high right now.

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

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Post by _kblcuk_ »

stoniejohnson wrote: post #151
zem wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

for work, there are a lot of commands with complex invocations that I do not use regularly enough to bother remembering all the flags. it is really useful to just grep through my full shell history to find all the times I ran that command and just copy/paste the relevant one.

Yep, I do `history | grep " "` all the time.. I should probably make it a function now that I think about it.

Most of the shells have built-in recursive search, why not just use that? `Ctrl + R` in bash / fish / zsh at least.

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

#158

Post by zem »

stoniejohnson wrote: post #151
zem wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

for work, there are a lot of commands with complex invocations that I do not use regularly enough to bother remembering all the flags. it is really useful to just grep through my full shell history to find all the times I ran that command and just copy/paste the relevant one.

Yep, I do `history | grep " "` all the time.. I should probably make it a function now that I think about it.

i called my function `fh` for "full history"

Re: I quit my job to work full time on my open source project

#159

Post by zem »

_kblcuk_ wrote: post #156
stoniejohnson wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, I do `history | grep " "` all the time.. I should probably make it a function now that I think about it.

Most of the shells have built-in recursive search, why not just use that? `Ctrl + R` in bash / fish / zsh at least.

i usually want to just see all the options at once and pick the one i want, rather than searching through them one by one
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