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What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands?
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I'd say that journalctl is not only boot, but every service that runs on the computer has its logs collected through it, so you can use it as
journalctl --grep="your regex". You can also add-kto check kernel logs,-b -nto check nth precedent boot or-b nto check the absolute nth boot. There is a lot that you can check with it and it is quite nice :)Otherwise, I like eza as an ls replacement, or batcat as a human friendly cat
Don't forget the almighty:
journalctl -fu <servicename>And yes, I am always reading that as "fuck you, service".
Well now I'm aliasing this to
jofuand remembering it as "jerk off fuck you"I love it XD