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Shell Essentials, Pt. 1 – apropos & man
It seems that I am always teaching someone something about the command line. It also appears to be happening more and more frequently. While the advice is most commonly about using bash, most of this...
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Enhancing git status with gs
Update: 2012-10-19 I never intended for this command to be useful by itself. It becomes useful when combined with other commands. It’s not about making git status searchable, but cleaning the output...
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Fuzzy Finder in the Style of Bash
TL;DR I find fuzzy finders useful, they save me time and keystrokes. I wrote one for bash, the shell. I call it ff. ff () { # Author: Joshua Toyota (Unix Superhero) find . -type f | grep -i "$(echo...
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Shell Tip: Run an aliased command, ignoring the alias (Solution #0)
How Bash Uses Aliases/Commands First, it will try to find an alias for the given name. If no alias is found, then it will use the first command in your $PATH by the given name. Scenario You set...
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Shell Tip: Run an aliased command, ignoring the alias (Solution #1)
How Bash Uses Aliases/Commands First, it will try to find an alias for the given name. If no alias is found, then it will use the first command in your $PATH by the given name. Scenario You set...
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Faster Bash Fuzzy Finder; Ignores .gitignore Files; Combined with vim
I use grep a lot and at work we have a large code base, many different apps. Grep’s switches to exclude files from the search aren’t exactly quick to type. The files I normally want to exclude from my...
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Grep Tip: How To Include or Exclude dotfiles
Obligatory Introduction Over the years, cmd options have become engrained in my brain. For grep, they are: grep -Rin (recursive, case-insensitive, line numbers) grep -Ril (recursive, case-insensitive,...
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Git Tip: Remove a file from your entire git repo
tl;dr git filter-branch --force --index-filter 'git rm --cached --ignore-unmatch path/to/file' --prune-empty --tag-name-filter cat -- --all Why Do This? Here are a few reasons why you might want to do...
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Advanced Bash Keyboard Shortcuts
I strive for efficiency and precision when typing. I do most of my typing in vim and bash (or zsh). Bash has many functions that can be assigned to keyboard shortcuts with the bind command. Using...
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Bash: Easy Way to Loop Through All Arguments
#!/bin/bashfor arg; do echo "someone passed in: $arg"done Of course, “arg” can be named anything: for x; do echo "var name is x: $x"done If this script were saved as argtest.sh, here is sample...
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