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What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands? (piefed.social)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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I've been setting up a new Proxmox server and messing around with VMs, and wanted to know what kind of useful commands I'm missing out on. Bonus points for a little explainer.

Journalctl | grep -C 10 'foo' was useful for me when I needed to troubleshoot some fstab mount fuckery on boot. It pipes Journalctl (boot logs) into grep to find 'foo', and prints 10 lines before and after each instance of 'foo'.

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[–] 6 points 10 months ago

Another one of my favorite is ctrl+r to quickly search for a previous command.

Then type in a word from the command you are looking for and then hit tab to find the right command if there is more than one with that word.

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