5 life-changing Linux tips

Here are five Linux command tricks that will change your life if you're a programmer.

mkdir { }
cd -
touch {1..100}
tail -f
history

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[Fireship]

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[_scored]

cd - is literally the most useful thing ever, how did I not know about it sooner

[s_]

"sudo !!" will run the previous command with sudo

[gorudonu]

You can also do cd-1 or cd -2 to go back 1 or 2 folders back in history

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More Linux tips:
- salt your steaks with 1.5% salt by weight several hours (up to 2 days) before and leave it in the fridge uncovered on a wire rack. This is called dry brining. Also works for poultry.
- grate your lemon with the microplane above, lemon below.
- did you know? You can buy MSG and make your healthy veggies addictive too!
- you're not using enough salt and butter.
- frozen veggies are very easy to make into a side dish whenever you're lazy.
- stuff is often cheaper in bulk.

[itslonewolf]

Fireship making reference to Jordan's video is arguably the best thing I've seen this week.

[VVP-ltnl]

You can also do "git checkout -" similar to "cd -"

[PaulBunkey]

Cool fact: the less command has "follow the tail functionality", like tait -f. Run less <file> and then press Shift+f

[oxygenownz]

ctrl + r, reverse shell search is life changing

[chris-pee]

"cd -" goes back in history, "cd +" goes forward I believe

[thanos]

That egg trick better work tomorrow morning or else I’m gonna be grumpy 😠

[jackdavenport]

I prefer "less +F" over tail so you can stop/start following and scroll through the logs

[bejcsmith]

The retention graph on this one is probably insane

[ajcosta]

The braces are an all around thing, they interact with every command. Instead of cd - try pushd and pops, it creates a stack of directories that you have visited

[michaelwang]

came for tech tips, stayed for cooking tips

[zawadlttv]

Missed the opportunity to call the command line "shell"😢

[vsjn]

You forgot to add the neofetch command if you are running Arch

[RemizZ]

Recursive mkdir and cd - are amazing, thank you.

[louiszhang]

Idk if I'll use any of these tricks, except the egg one. That was pretty useful.

[asailijhijr]

HowToBasic has been teaching us the right way for years.