If you feel, not unreasonably, that both Vim and Emacs’ keyboard command systems are bizarre and arcane, you can customize Readline’s key bindings and make them whatever you like. This is not hard to do. Readline reads a ~/.inputrc file on startup that can be used to configure various options and key bindings. One thing I’ve done is reconfigured Ctrl-K. Normally it deletes from the cursor to the end of the line, but I rarely do that. So I’ve instead bound it so that pressing Ctrl-K deletes the whole line, regardless of where the cursor is. I’ve done that by adding the following to ~/.inputrc:

A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on Linux and macOS. - theopfr/somo

My experience with moving from Mac to Linux for professional UX and UI design work and how to make the switch yourself.

A beginner's guide to self hosting

I use reverse-i-search often, and that's cool. Sometime though when pressing Ctrl+r multiple times, I pass the command I am actually looking for. Because Ctrl+r searches backward in history, from n...

The one-sentence answer: Run stty -ixon in your terminal, and then use Ctrl+S to change the search direction from backward to forward.

sshx lets you share your terminal with anyone by link, on a multiplayer infinite canvas.

It has real-time collaboration, with remote cursors and chat. It's also fast and end-to-end encrypted, with a lightweight server written in Rust.

Install sshx with a single command. Use it for teaching, debugging, or cloud access.

For the enterprise, that leaves SUSE. Personally, I think the best thing enterprise environments can look at are firms that provide support for FreeBSD, like Klara Systems. [klarasystems.com] Since they don't make a "distro" and FreeBSD is a full OS controlled by a foundation, your support guys can't pull the rug out from the open source community. Plus, since they don't own the system, their bug fixes go to the foundation, not their fork of it. Allowing the support guys to own the code is a recipe for disaster—they're incentivized to lock you in and implement Oracle-style anti-customer tactics. Unfortunately, the guys who pay the bills tend to like the IBMs and Oracles of the world.

Example based guide for text processing with perl from the command line - GitHub - learnbyexample/learn_perl_oneliners: Example based guide for text processing with perl from the command line

Mojo one-liners are just Perl one-liners. You will use -E (or -e) to write the program. You might use -n to loop over input, or -p to do the same while printing $_ after each item, just like normal one-liners.

To get the extra Mojo goodness, add -Mojo. The name itself is a cute hack. Since -M is what loads a module on the command line, the module name is therefore ojo.

Pop!_OS is an operating system for STEM and creative professionals who use their computer as a tool to discover and create. Unleash your potential on secure, reliable open source software. Based on your exceptional curiosity, we sense you have a lot of it.

debian-slim

If you’re looking for a general-purpose base image with a reasonable size that’s not based on musl, then you might consider using UBI (Universal Base Image) made by Red Hat, which has only 26.7MB in its "micro" version ( registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8-micro), which is also fairly close to Alpine.

Rust tooling is taking over the terminal. Use these awesome tools to supercharge your Linux/macOS/Windows terminal. Tagged with rust, terminal, linux, macos.

bat is one of my favorite tools from this list. It's a replacement for cat, and once you have used bat, you will never go back.

$ Cargo
cargo install bat --locked

exa
Both LSD and exa are replacements for the ls command. They both look gorgeous with nice colors and icons and have features like headers, sorting, tree views, and so on. Exa is a bit faster than LSD for tree views and can show the Git status of files and folders. I prefer exa due to the Git support and faster tree views. I have set up my ls alias to use exa by default. Both can be configured to show custom columns and sorting behaviors.

rip
rip is an improved version of the rm command. It is faster, safer, and user-friendly. rip sends deleted files to a temp location so they can be recovered using rip -u.

dust
Dust is an alternative for the du command. It is fast and has a better UX with nice visualization for disk usage.

fd
fd is a simpler alternative to find. It is more intuitive to use and comes with sensible defaults. It is extremely fast due to parallel traversing and shows a modern colorized output and supports patterns and regex, parallel commands, smart case, understands .gitignore files, and so on. I have aliased find to fd as I could never remember what options to pass to get a basic find command working.

bottom
bottom is a top replacement with a nice terminal UI. It's quite feature-rich and customizable.

fselect, find files with SQL-like queries
github.com/jhspetersson/fselect

sudo ln -sfnv /usr/bin/batcat /usr/bin/bat;

Make JSON greppable! Contribute to tomnomnom/gron development by creating an account on GitHub.

gron transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to grep for what you want and see the absolute 'path' to it. It eases the exploration of APIs that return large blobs of JSON but have terrible documentation.

A list of new(ish) command line tools

vidir (from moreutils, lets you batch rename/delete files in vim)

This brief tutorial describes how can we limit network bandwidth in Linux using wondershaper script.

diff <(grep somestring file1) <(grep somestring file2)

:h

I use this one a lot too. If you put it after a filename, it will change that filename to remove everything up to the folder. Like this:

grep isthere /long/path/to/some/file/or/other.txt
cd !$:h

9. Startup Order
   https://blog.flowblok.id.au/2013-02/shell-startup-scripts.html

This document is a collection of Unix/Linux/BSD commands and tasks which are useful for IT work or for advanced users. This is a practical guide with concise explanations, however the reader is supposed to know what s/he is doing.

Readable & Writable
Typora gives you a seamless experience as both a reader and a writer. It removes the preview window, mode switcher, syntax symbols of markdown source code, and all other unnecessary distractions. Instead, it provides a real live preview feature to help you concentrate on the content itself.

How to develop a Makefile

They key to successfully writing a Makefile is to just write down the commands you need at the moment. Ran a new command? Put it in the Makefile. Over time, the Makefile will grow to include even those rare commands you rarely run and can’t remember what they were. Patters with emerge, and these will help guide the prerequisites that may otherwise not be obvious.

o what is Click? From the webpage:

It (Click) aims to make the process of writing command-line tools quick and fun while also preventing any frustration caused by the inability to implement an intended CLI API.