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What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands? (piefed.social)
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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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[-] Ftumch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 24 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Ctrl-z to suspend the running program.

bg to make it continue running in the background.

jobs to get an overview of background programs.

fg to bring a program to the foreground.

[-] chillhelm@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

and

disown

to keep background jobs alive when you close the terminal.

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