Favorite Linux Commands

[stacksofplates]

This is also helpful, diff is confusing unless you use some flags.

diff -y -W 70 file file2

It makes viewing changes much easier. Below is a screenshot. The pipe shows there is a difference in the line, and the < or > show that there is a line added or subtracted.

[brianlittlejohn]

@travisdh1 said:

@johnhooks said:

@Lakshmana said:

My favourite linux command is "ls"
"cd"

I use those quite a bit also.

I use them all the time, doesn't mean I like them. At least ls is shorter than dir.

I always end up typing dir on my linux machines and ls on my windows machines.... it just frustrates me...

[Nic]

Back in the day, one of my faves was "rn"

[RamblingBiped]

@brianlittlejohn Switch to powershell and always use "ls"

[travisdh1]

This thread deserves more attention than it gets. I was getting annoyed with dd and no status display today (lots of Raspberry Pis to image.) This time I know the exact size of the sd cards being imaged tho, so pv is very helpful.

dd if=/home/comtech/rpi.img | pv -s 16g | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4k

[root@localhost comtech]# dd if=/home/comtech/rpi.img | pv -s 16g | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0
^[34MiB 0:01:37 [ 249KiB/s] [==>                                                                        ]  2% ETA 1:17:2

[dafyre]

@travisdh1 said in Favorite Linux Commands:

This thread deserves more attention than it gets. I was getting annoyed with dd and no status display today (lots of Raspberry Pis to image.) This time I know the exact size of the sd cards being imaged tho, so pv is very helpful.

dd if=/home/comtech/rpi.img | pv -s 16g | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4k

[root@localhost comtech]# dd if=/home/comtech/rpi.img | pv -s 16g | dd of=/dev/mmcblk0
^[34MiB 0:01:37 [ 249KiB/s] [==>                                                                        ]  2% ETA 1:17:2

This isn't installed by default on some systems, but i easy & quick to add.

[dbeato]

Mine has been grep and cat.

[black3dynamite]

When I want to use virt-manager from my Mac.

ssh -Y username@ip-address
virt-manager &

[stacksofplates]

I use ^ quite frequently any more.

[EddieJennings]

free -h

[black3dynamite]

@eddiejennings said in Favorite Linux Commands:

free -h

I tend to use free -hm

[black3dynamite]

cat <<EOF | sudo tee /home/user/Documents/hello-MangoLassi.txt
Hello MangoLassi!
EOF

[wirestyle22]

history as of late lol

[travisdh1]

@wirestyle22 said in Favorite Linux Commands:

history as of late lol

ctrl + r Searches typed query in command history.

[JaredBusch]

@travisdh1 said in Favorite Linux Commands:

@wirestyle22 said in Favorite Linux Commands:

history as of late lol

ctrl + r Searches typed query in command history.

Pretty much this. Use it all the time.

[stacksofplates]

@jaredbusch said in Favorite Linux Commands:

@travisdh1 said in Favorite Linux Commands:

@wirestyle22 said in Favorite Linux Commands:

history as of late lol

ctrl + r Searches typed query in command history.

Pretty much this. Use it all the time.

I've been using ZSH and I have it automatically do that.

[stacksofplates]

@stacksofplates said in Favorite Linux Commands:

@jaredbusch said in Favorite Linux Commands:

@travisdh1 said in Favorite Linux Commands:

@wirestyle22 said in Favorite Linux Commands:

history as of late lol

ctrl + r Searches typed query in command history.

Pretty much this. Use it all the time.

I've been using ZSH and I have it automatically do that.

So as I type it dynamically auto suggests things. Then just hit ctrl+e to auto complete.

[hobbit666]

Die die die

Sorry that's what I shout when something doesn't work as I'm a newbie lol

[black3dynamite]

Finding a file or folder without seeing any permission denied texts.
find / -name "filetofind" 2>/dev/null