Wow this is really validating for me to read. I’ve been using Linux for a few years but I’m definitely not a computer expert and am intimidated by the command line.

I’ve always felt like googling every command and arrowing up to find an old entry rather than just googling it again marked me as a fake Linux user, not a real one.

Too many people still use Bash.

https://marko.tech/journal/fzf-ftw

You have to be a linux user to use the console now?

grep | history [search term]

history | grep then !cmd no

I accidentally found out one day that I could use a wildcard operator in the terminal instead of a full file or folder name due to always doing this.

cd Pho* or cd /documents/Pho*

Will for example open my "Photo Examples" folder in the working directory or based on the path

Fish once again undefeated. If I want to find that weird image magick command I used earlier with foo.png in it I just type foo.png, hit up and its usually the first one. It doesnt matter where foo.png occurs in the command, fish will find it.

zsh tab completion also looks through history wich is pretty nice.

I'm in this picture, and I didn't like it....

...Yeah, you got me.

• zsh-autosuggestions
• history | fzf
• alias cat="bat --plain --theme=gruvbox-dark"

I write part of the command then ctrl+r. Using FZF mind you. Such a great utility.

I just use mcfly

The one people see me doing that gets a "huh?" Is:

~$ !find
find -type f -name '*blah*' -print0 | xargs -0 gzip
~$

"Wait! What did you do?" "Oh. Do you not know about bang?"

Being able to just enter a partial command, and hit [up] to jump to prior commands that started in the same way in zsh is a godsend.

This is why I like atuin, I can just press up and start typing part of the command and it will likely find it in my history.

Oh come on! I at least type the beginning so that it filters the history