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What's a handy terminal command you use often? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by cybercitizen4@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

compgen -back to see all valid things you can type into a shell.

[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

sudo

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[–] berryjam@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

qalc

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

More of a shortcut, CTRL + A + D to exit the current session (exits a sudo su first, then a ssh, then the actual terminal)

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[–] potentiallynotfelix@lemdro.id 2 points 2 months ago

less, watch

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ctrl-r with https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin is amazing. Never forget a command you used ever again.

[–] eric@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

I trigger it with the up arrow.

[–] FrostyCaveman@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

plz from https://github.com/m1guelpf/plz-cli

[–] BigLime@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Neofetch

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[–] kang@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

$ z

A great cd alternative

Also $ sudo paru -Syu

[–] theshatterstone54@feddit.uk 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think you can run paru without sudo and it should still do privilege escalation no problem

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I often play an old DOS game in DOSBox, and when I exit it doesn't reset the screen resolution. So I reset it manually by typing

xrandr -output e-DP1 -auto

[–] LEVI@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

flatpak update

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