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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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[–] 5 points 10 months ago* (2 children)

For interactive editing, the keybind alt+. inserts the last argument from the previous command. Using this instead of $_ has the potential to make your shell history a little more explicit. (vim $_ isn't as likely to work a few commands later, but vim actual_file.sh might)

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