13
What are some things that are easier to do in Linux than in Windows or even macOS?
(hilariouschaos.com)
Linux questions Rules (in addition of the Lemmy.zip rules)
Tips for giving and receiving help
Any rule violations will result in disciplinary actions
The big one for me is
grep
/ripgrep
. I'm a dev, so there are often times I need to search the contents of files to figure out where something obscure is mentioned. This is also possible on Windows, but as with most things on Windows, it's slow.The second mention-worthy thing is, oftentimes in conjunction with
grep
, is piping! It's so enjoyable for me to find the files/content, pipe it to anything (sometimes throughxargs
and/ortee
), so that I can replace the text en-masse withsed
, remove all junk files that match a certain parameter withrm
, and generally automatically act upon something that I don't have to manually look for.Although I'm a dev mainly on Windows, I've installed WSL as a compromise, and quite often find myself using its bash to perform tasks like the ones mentioned above.