Shell Tricks to Save Time in Linux

In this video I show you some command line tricks to save you time at your linux shell. Some of the tricks I used in this video are cd .. to go back to parent directory, sudo !! to run the last command as sudo

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[ladyViviaen]

4 am and watching shell tricks to save time is literal mood

[ifrit]

Another time saver: Ctrl+L instead of typing clear every time.

[markusTegelane]

"touch cat"
I would personally alias this to "pet cat"

[nyx]

Ah yes, it's 3;20 AM and I'm listening to this to fall asleep.

[someguy]

>cd .. to go back a folder
I knew that
>sudo !! to do the last command as sudo
WAIT WHAT

[bobbbay]

It scares me that I knew all of these already.

[cattharsis]

this is a very cool Christmas gift
appreciated

[dorukhan]

Your videos are awesome Kenny, always quality videos. I wonder how you even manage to upload that good of videos in such a small time intervals. I just wanted to thank you for what you are doing and have been doing, and for being in YT like a crown jewel.

[Fish_Sticks]

I've been trying to get as much info on linux as i can since I plan in getting a computer and installing Linux to it and your videos have been a godsend with how much I've learned

[m_hrstv]

Damn, the ^text^correction thing is great, I'm a Linux noob and been using Manjaro for 3 months now and was totally unaware of that. Also recently found the !! thingy but didn't know it can cycle through the history like that. Thanks!

[nitsi]

First actually helpful bash tricks video!

[lawrencedoliveiro]

7:18 This kind of cleverness can get dangerous, though. What if it substitutes the wrong thing? Beyond a certain point, you would really like the option of confirming what it is going to do, before doing it.

Found a fix: do “shopt -s histverify”, then instead of immediately executing the substitution, it presents it to you in the readline buffer, so you can edit it before pressing Enter to execute the result.

[dannyzuckerberg]

cd - is a great trick. Thanks man!
.
Another time saver is to use reverse-i-search to cycle through commands' history. Ctrl + r, then type any keyword from your command. Ctrl + r to continue the cycle backward, and Ctrl + b to exit.

[Seselix]

Another way to keep track of previous directories is to use "pushd" and "popd".

For example, if you're in directoryA and you want to go to directoryB, but you need to remember directoryA, use "pushd directoryB"

To go back to directoryA, simply use "popd"

[hyperpug]

This video will save me literally hours. Thank you!

[zolaarczakle]

To see all your commands, don't need to open a file, just type 'history' and if you look for a command in particular: 'history | grep commmand'.
To navigate inside a long line of command, bash knows emacs' short cuts.

[noelj]

Thank you for the viable info on bash tricks that gets me more stuck to linux. I'm one year old xubuntu user on a daily basis. Merry Christmas.

[GearAddict]

I love these kind of videos.
I did not know the !! One but for the most part I just use the up arrow key to traverse the history and make edits as needed.
And I use ctrl+r even more

[BenderdickCumbersnatch]

Great video. Another thing I hate is cd../../../ etc. I just put a bunch of aliases: .. to go up one dir, ... to go up two dirs, etc. So two dots to go up. And then just add more individual dots to go up one extra. This is ultra useful. Need to go up three folders? "...." done!

[dorukhan]

9:24 _and look, we got a nice little Stallman there_ Xd