du -sh /too/bar to get size of files/folders. sudo !! inserts sudo into previous command when forgotten. yay for full system update if yay is installed. cat reads files.

sudo

Zoxide, dust, fd, rg, btm, tokei. So many newer Rust tools that are way better than the old stuff.

plz from https://github.com/m1guelpf/plz-cli

compgen -back to see all valid things you can type into a shell.

Ctrl-r with https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin is amazing. Never forget a command you used ever again.

I really like how nushell can parse output into it’s native structures called tables using the detect command.

Unlike string outputs, tables allow for easy data manipulation through pipes like select foo will select foo key and you can filter and even reshape the datasets.

This is great if you need to work with large data pipes like kuberneters so you can do something like:

kubectl get pods --all-namespaces | detect columns | where $it.STATUS !~ "Running|Completed" | par-each { |it| kubectl -n $it.NAMESPACE delete pod $it.NAME }

This looks complex but it parses kubectl table string to table object -> filters rows only where status is not running or completed -> executes pod delete task for each row in parallel.

Nushell take a while to learn but having real data objects in your terminal pipes is incredible! Especially with the detect command.

There’s are few more shells that do that though nu is the most mature one I’ve seen so far.

Alt + F4

sudo !! to rerun last command as sudo.

history can be paired with !5 to run the fifth command listed in history.

jq

I use atuin (link) all the time

ls

git

rsync

I use it to backup important work to an external drive.

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