10 Linux Terminal Tips and Tricks to Enhance Your Workflow

Are you a Linux user and/or administrator? These 10 terminal tricks will show you some new and exciting ways you can enhance your workflow, shorten longer tasks, and even have a little fun along the way.

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*⏰ TIME CODES*
00:00 - Intro
00:56 - Spin up your very own Linux server with Linode (Sponsor)
02:25 - Terminal Trick 1: Simplify package installation
05:18 - Creating an alias for your text editor as well
06:08 - Retaining aliases like these for future use
07:59 - Terminal Trick 2: Checking your weather forecast
10:21 - Terminal Trick 3: Resetting your terminal session (without closing the window)
11:28 - Terminal Trick 4: Run a Internet speed test from within your terminal
14:07 - Terminal Trick 5: Use neofetch to show a system summary when you log in
16:48 - Terminal Trick 6: My own personal custom bash prompt
21:00 - Explanation on how my terminal prompt functions
29:33 - Terminal Trick 8: Get your fortune told (use at your own risk!)
32:18 - Terminal Trick 9: How tmux can enhance your workflow
36:29 - Terminal Trick 10: Opening files and launching desktop apps from the terminal

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[toweliethetowel]

What helped me at the beginning was the discovery of "!!". If you forgot "sudo" in front your command you can type "sudo !!" and it adds the last command after the "sudo ".. Saved a lot of nerves :)

[tralphstreet]

Your solution to not see the verbose warning messages when opening audacity is just to drop them in another terminal session. What's better is to send the output to /dev/null

audacity &> /dev/null &

&> redirects both stdout and stderr, dev null is a special device where you can send stuff, it's basically a void. The last ampersand just puts the program in the background, it's optional.

[mrklean]

Great video, I have been a RHEL, Sun Solaris, AIX Sys Admin off and on for about 17 years now, and I would have to say that I have learned more from your videos and the comments, both good and bad, in the past year (I think I just discovered your videos about five months ago). I have read tons of books and watched more videos on Linux systems admin than I can remember, but not all of it would stick. The way you demonstrate and put things just makes sense. Thank you. I really wasn't an Ubuntu user, mostly because I worked mainly with RHEL since 2005, but I recently started using Ubuntu Mate on one of my personal lab setups and really like it, I haven't bought a Linux admin book in years now because I just wasn't really learning from them. But, because of the way your videos are done, I am going to buy your book because I feel that it would be a far better reference than any of the previous books I have sitting on my shelves, well, with the exception of "Unix and Linux System Administration Handbook", there are so many good nuggets in those books.

[SEVE_P]

Brilliant video, so many useful tips and I learnt some new stuff. I like your presenting style as well. Thank you :)

[CDE.Hacker]

Aliases are great. Been using them for a while. I would recommend a naming convention for aliases. I like to capitalize the first letter of each command to indicate it's an alias. I find that very helpful.

[KLGO]

Hello from Japan. Thank you for great educational videos. I love your Japanese writings on the wall and Daibutsu!

[AlazTetik]

My ultimate go-to place for Linux related stuff for the last 4 years. Thank you 🙋🏻

[assgex]

Thank you for those tips, some were very useful!

[scottb]

loved the video. Tmux is one of the best CLI applications bar none, and your series on it is awesome. One of the things that kept coming to me during the video was, why not use a CLI file manager, like ranger, lf, nnn or Midnight Commander. (maybe not the last one). ?

[DanCalloway]

Jay, great video! I already had many of these, but there was one or two that I didn't. Thank you for all that you do. Sorry I couldn't make ATO 2022 this year. I was hoping to get you to sign my "Mastering Ubuntu Server, 3rd ed." book which I purchased a year or so ago. Maybe next year. Take care.

[ucqfozx]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I'd like to see a entirely video about customize Bash prompt.

[rwashi]

You are AWESOME! your tutorials are clear, and easy to follow. I love the weather curl command and the neofetch command too. Thank you very much!

[RandyHanley]

2:25 - I like your slide transition sound. It sort of reminds me of the spawning sound in Quake 1 Original!

[chyldstudios]

You don't need the space at the end of your alias. It works just fine with no space. Try it.

[TheChadXperience]

For your speedtest alias, you could add "&& nslookup " to verify you don't have a DNS issue. Maybe even add a ping to veify you are able to reach the modem/firewall, etc.

[yorkshireplumbing]

Just not ever had aliases really mentioned to me before, but in my case would be super useful for spinning up and down groups of Docker containers, "arr-up / arr-down". I've seen people use 'll' which translates to 'ls -al', so that's already added.
I have the weather tip added also, as 'weather'... super super cool 😁

[mohcine]

the link for the official blog post for this video is not working

[SpiceMinesGaming]

FYI: The link to the blog post in the description is not working.

[TheChadXperience]

For your install alias, you could also add "-y".

[magusfire]

The last tip I love. Launching apps from terminal looks a lot easier the going thru menus