What’s a handy terminal command you use often?

@cybercitizen4@lemm.ee · 7M

What’s a handy terminal command you use often?

walden · edit-2 7M

I learned you can edit .bashrc (in your home dir) and update the alias for ls to include what I like. It has saved me lots of keystrokes. Mine is ls -lha in addition to whatever color coding stuff is there by default.

@jbrains@sh.itjust.works · 7M

You might like lsd even more than that!

walden · 7M

Hmm, that’s not working for me. You mean use those as options? ‘ls -eza’?

@jbrains@sh.itjust.works · 7M

No, eza is one of those modern Rust replacement programs. It replaces ls.

@emb@lemmy.world · edit-2 7M

There’s a whole bunch of cool modern replacements. Here’s a handy list: altbox.dev

I personally use bat and rg all the time, and find them much more suitable for everyday tasks.

Edit: And to clarify, I didn’t create either list, they’re just ones I’d bookmarked at some point.

@jbrains@sh.itjust.works · 7M

Even better than rg is rga. Indeed, you have a fine list.

@bradboimler@lemmy.world · 7M

The mobile site doesn’t have the list. I was so confused.

@emb@lemmy.world · 7M

Ew, sorry. This list is similar and more accessible:

https://github.com/ibraheemdev/modern-unix

@babeuh@lemmy.world · 7M

No, it’s like an ls replacement: https://github.com/eza-community/eza

walden · edit-2 7M

Aha. Well, I guess I’m not the target audience because I can’t be bothered to go through the installation steps. It’s not in the LMDE repository, but I wish it were!

Noxious · 7M

It’s pretty easy. You either get it from Cargo (the Rust package manager) or add a custom repo to apt.

Cargo is the easier and safer option: curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh && cargo install eza

Custom apt repo:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y gpg

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eza-community/eza/main/deb.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg] http://deb.gierens.de stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gierens.list
sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gierens.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y eza

In my opinion though, you should also try lsd. It’s even better than eza. You can also get it from Cargo, just a simple cargo install lsd.

@4am@lemm.ee · 7M

A lot of distros include a .bashrc with common ls aliases commented out, just waiting for you to activate them if you like.