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Linux CLI Tools

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Create, Copy & Move

touch

• create files

mkdir & rmdir

Make and remove directories

mv & cp

• move or copy files and directories

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Simplification Utilities

ip

Quick way to get your IP address and see all network connections.

• brew install iproute2mac
• ip route show
• ip addr

host

Get host details for any URL.

• host google.com

tree

• viewing directory structure: brew install tree
• tree -L [number of levels]

.aliases

• stop typing so much

history

• no need to scroll up to find the command you recently ran
• no need to re-type long commands
• history displays your numbered command history
• ![number from history] gives you the command with that number
• !gulp gives you the last gulp command you ran
• history | grep gulp shows your history filtered to just gulp commands

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Finding & Displaying Information

less

Read files and command line data from top to bottom.

• pipe lengthy git status output: git status | less
• pipe file contents for better readabililty: cat file.html | less

grep

• find stuff
• useful in combination with other commands

cat

• pull only the content you want out of a file
• push content into the system clipboard

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Advanced

functions

• add variables to shortcuts

scripts

• automate processes

Libraries

• https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k
• https://github.com/sharkdp/bat
• https://github.com/so-fancy/diff-so-fancy
• https://github.com/antonmedv/fx
• https://github.com/Peltoche/lsd
• https://github.com/cantino/mcfly
• https://github.com/orf/gping
• https://www.jedsoft.org/most/
• https://github.com/rakyll/hey
• https://httpie.io/docs/cli
• http://jonas.github.io/tig/
• https://github.com/ajeetdsouza/zoxide

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Use Cases

Moving Around

• / (search forward)
• ? (search backwards)
• F (enable tail -f like behvaior, Ctrl-C to break out of it)
• v (open file in $EDITOR for editing, defaults to vi/vim)
• u - up half page
• d - down half page
• k - scroll single line up
• j - scroll single line down