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https://stackoverflow.com/questions/158 ... ific-cases

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/211 ... es-of-bash

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/683 ... using-bash

Thanks to stark I know now that Ctrl+r searches your history recursively. Yes I didn't know that! This command is the dmenu of bash! It's like realizing the sunglasses you were looking for are actually on your forehead and that they are polarized expensive cool as fuck sunglasses! Thanks stark (heart icon here)

that's why this thread is so great. So much out there, so much to remember (which none of us can).

Yes, it is all good stuff fo sho! Thanks stark :D (I hadn't the faintest idea about reverse searching history either.)

wow, yeah you guys need to go through this thread then :P
I was going to moan at simple thread postage, but that seems to have worked.

ctrl-r is massive, combine it with a '#' and a unique line you have a marker.
yes you can comment out on the cmd line.

My fav is alt dot - which is in this and one of those threads too.
All these things make the CLI a lot more friendly

wuxmedia wrote:ctrl-r is massive, combine it with a '#' and a unique line you have a marker.

This stuff just keeps getting better. Thanks Wux!

Thanks Everyone. I'm just trying to stay away from zsh ( no offence ).

https://github.com/revans/bash-it

Can I put a nano tip here? I often load a second file into vim so I can copy a snippet and paste it into the file I'm working on. nano can do this too. I've used this in the past, but so infrequently that I had to look it up every time. I think I can remember it this time.

1. If you are already running nano, turn on multibuffer mode with "alt F" -- if this is something you like and want to use all the time, put "set multibuffer" in your nanorc, or start nano with "nano --multibuffer" or "nano -F".

2. Once you are editing one file, load more files with "ctrl r"

3. To switch between the buffers, use "alt ," and "alt ."

Now you can cut lines from one file and paste them into the other.

http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.2/faq.html#3.7

Finally, if you know you want two (or more) files loaded at once, use "nano <file1> <file2> ..." -- then "alt ," or "alt ." will switch between them.

Thanks to stark for reminding me to look this up and learn it again.

^ that's handy, most of the work installs have vim as default, but some don't. so that's a great way of visually diffing files, or indeed c/p from/to files.
Again. it's nice having your own system as custom as you can make it, but that just doesn't happen in most work environments. Unless you are the CTO...
So always good to know the defaults of bash certainly.

^ "vimdiff <file1> <file2>" is still my favorite way to compare two files (like kernel configs).

so I'm wondering now ....

vim T & T thread?
nano T & T thread?

I am also thinking about tmux T&T ;)

Maybe "non emacs T&T?"

Good timing, I just learned one tmux trick. You can hide the status bar!

pidsley wrote:Can I put a nano tip here? I often load a second file into vim so I can copy a snippet and paste it into the file I'm working on. nano can do this too. I've used this in the past, but so infrequently that I had to look it up every time. I think I can remember it this time.

1. If you are already running nano, turn on multibuffer mode with "alt F" -- if this is something you like and want to use all the time, put "set multibuffer" in your nanorc, or start nano with "nano --multibuffer" or "nano -F".

2. Once you are editing one file, load more files with "ctrl r"

3. To switch between the buffers, use "alt ," and "alt ."

Now you can cut lines from one file and paste them into the other.

http://www.nano-editor.org/dist/v2.2/faq.html#3.7

Finally, if you know you want two (or more) files loaded at once, use "nano <file1> <file2> ..." -- then "alt ," or "alt ." will switch between them.

Thanks to stark for reminding me to look this up and learn it again.

That's super-neat, thanks for the tip. I only knew about multiple files,but not that new buffers can be created. I should RTFM more :)

A small, but cool one:
To generate an HTML page out of a markdown page, and add a header/footer meanwhile.

One I had to search for last week:
Disk Usage, human readable, 3 folders deep. Feel free to change depth and directory: Generation after generation: ccrypt is my tool of choice, but I use this in scripts all the time:

encrypt: decrypt: All of that being said, here's a PowerShell gem: and then For enabling remote desktop protocol remotely.

^ sounds like a hack ;)

must have been old (or non-gnu) to use du with no '-h' option?
in the spirit of du'ing; only find big files.

Kind of a script (not cli) tip, but if you want to loop a sequence in bash, there is no need to use seq; bash can do this by itself.

^ Thank You, very nice :)