check out fzf (install fzf and add (assuming bash) eval "$(fzf --bash)" to your .bashrc) Makes ctrl+r a superpower

Ctrl + r with fzf and you’ll never go back.

Woah Ctrl R looks super cool, never knew that I could do that before…

ls .. enter ↑ enter ↑ enter

Now I don't have to type that in again. Phew!

Been there, done that.

There is an option you can set in .zshrc or .bashrc which only includes lines that exit 0 (success)

CTRL+R for those unitiated

reverse-i-search + fzf = <3

It was quite a while before I realised that was possible.
Then not long after starting to use it, that I got fed up and just started opening up the history file and searching in it.

To use ctrl-r I have to remember something about the command. To use up arrow I just have to know about how many commands ago I used it.

and whenever you forget to sudo: sudo !!

Ctrl-r, l ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r, ctrl-r. To get ls.

Or "shit, I did in tmux last time so I could close the terminal window."

tar -xvf

but only because I had to look it up twice so now my brain has committed it to memory
I don't even know what it does

tar --help

tar - h

tar -jcvf archive.tbz ~/stuff/*

Of course I don't know the bomb had bzip2 on it.. I wonder if we can start with ls to see if there's anything to tar or untar

or Ctrl+R then search? I don't know why some people still bother with history tbh.

That's way more mental effort than pressing up a bunch of times.

Holy cow!! I didn’t know that. I have been using history > history.txt to find “that one command for that one thing” I only need once every other month or so. Thanks, now I can just do that.

Ctrl-R if you know part of the command.

yeah I ONLY just recently switched to fish after using zsh and oh my zsh for so long - pretty much since first starting linux cause I once saw someone using it on unixporn and I thought "that's cool"

when I switched to NixOS zsh with all the plugins was a total slog. switched to fish and it just HAS everything that zsh/oh my zsh and the various plugins had but baked in.

so yeah in Fish it's just starting to type something and hoping it's still in the history.

That's what I do in bash except for pressing up it's ctrl+r. FZF does the fuzzy finding for me. It's so convenient.

bash supports this feature too btw

I was going to talk about it too ! Even though I'm on fish (which helps a lot with history search) atuin really changed my habits and made my life easier !

You can use Ctrl-R and Ctrl-Shift-R to search through your history instead of having to push up a bajillion times.

Lol don't feel bad, I can do advanced crazy shit with Linux like pivoting the running OS into RAM so I can unmount the boot drive to do whatever without ever rebooting

But I still [Web Search] commands a shit ton of the time LMAO

I think that actually makes you a real Linux user...

I have more then once gave up on pressing up, hit ctrl + c to reset only to see the command I wanted briefly flash up as I am hitting ctrl + c

Not sure I understand the point of mcfly. zsh and fish have this functionality built in, where pressing Up with a command partially typed will give auto-completions to that partial match.

With ZSH there's something called "path-completion" that makes that even easier.

Say you want to go to "/usr/local/share/fonts" but that's too much to type out, you can instead type "cd /u/l/s/f" and hit tab. If every path element is unambiguous it will just expand it to "/usr/local/share/fonts". In this case though, "/u/l/" can expand to "/usr/local" or "/usr/lib" so when you hit tab it moves the cursor to just after the "l" to indicate it needs you to distinguish between "/usr/local/" and "/usr/lib". If you just type "o" and hit tab again, it will know that there's only one match for "/usr/lo" and expand that to "/usr/local/" Then there's only one match for "s" which is "share", and only one match for "f" which is "fonts".

That avoids the danger of executing a command with an asterisk wildcard.

You can use || between two commands as well. If the first command returns exit code != 0, the second command will run.

I.e. which ansible || pip install ansible.

This only works until you grow an addiction to making pho at home and start documenting your progress.

cd "Pho Recipes and Pictures"

cd /

sudo rm -rf *

Basically the Linux version of deleting system32 but idk I'm not a super Linux nerd yet.