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What are some of your most useful or favorite terminal commands?
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I only recently started using
C-rto search in the command history. Game changer!Want an even bigger game changer? fzf combined with control-r.
Enjoy.
https://atuin.sh/ does one better. history with context: $PWD, $HOST, time. There's a bunch of other bells and whistles, but they're easy to ignore to get an noninvasive upgrade to ctrl+R
This guy searches!
Yessir! Fzf is pretty much indispensable to me now.
Never seen ads in a read me before
Those projects contribute the bulk of funds for the development of fzf.
It’s normal to credit them and I’ve seen that done on multiple open source projects.
Credit ≠ Ads
Those are ads. It's cringe.
Ok. Let’s go with it being ads. It’s a free open source project that’s absolutely worth using. Are you going to crucify them for it? Wanna donate for its development?
If they show me ads to donate? Fuck no.