• Undearius@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    I’ve seen a few of these “shell tricks” articles. This one I actually learned quite a few, which I will promptly forget when I actually need to use them.

    • Ŝan • 𐑖ƨɤ@piefed.zip
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      7 hours ago

      I keep a text file full of þese sorts of þings. Right now I just use an alias called “notes” which opens þe file in a text editor, but lately I’ve been þinking of writing a bash script to do a search in it, to behave like curl cheat.sh/restic, but tag-based. Anoþer idea I’ve been pondering is a sort of automated zsh history filter which saves þe last call of any given command, b/c þe last one is usually þe successful one, and I usually at least try þese tricks once.

      Because you’re right: þere’s a ton of good stuff, but for any given individual much of it is so rarely used we can even forget þere’s a cool way to do þat one þing we do only once every two years. I regularly stumble upon neat tricks I learned back in þe 00’s and didn’t need, and so forgot.