As a noob where do I find more handy tips like this? Alone with handy/popular apps?
Almost every windows app I had was on Linux (most were FOSS already) but I know there will be some unique or interesting ones.
For example in android there is Obtanium now to update apps direct from git, or the many was to use YT without ads.
Why date time isn’t turned on by default I’ll never know.
Can you explain more? I’m getting into Linux and ops post has been a game changer.
This will do a far better job than I: https://ostechnix.com/how-to-enable-timestamp-in-bash-history-in-linux/
If you have
fzf
installed, it is easy to integrate it with your bash history. In my.bashrc
, I have:# Introduce fzf-driven functionality as described here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/fzf. source /usr/share/fzf/key-bindings.bash source /usr/share/fzf/completion.bash
Also, you may be interested in
zoxide
, which keeps track of paths you have navigated to. Also from my.bashrc
:# Enable an autojump-like 'j' command. Use 'ji M' to select paths starting with M using fzf. # This needs to always come last. eval "$(zoxide init --cmd j bash)"
I have a bash function in
fuzzy_arg
that I bind to Alt-a to uses fzf for interactively inserting arguments from previous commands. It’s Ctrl-r for Alt-. – I’ve found it super useful for essentially inserting partial commands (single arguments) from the history