compgen -back to see all valid things you can type into a shell.
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not sure if it counts as a command, but i use the up arrow to scroll through previous commands like, almost every time I open a terminal.
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Zoxide, dust, fd, rg, btm, tokei. So many newer Rust tools that are way better than the old stuff.
ranger
If you change the colours to night mode, the song "Sister Christian" starts playing
Saving this thread for later, but I use rsync -a a lot.
Have you heard of our lord and saviour rclone?
I haven't gone back to rsync in a long time.
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Ctrl-r with https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin is amazing. Never forget a command you used ever again.
I trigger it with the up arrow.
qalc
flatpak update
I often play an old DOS game in DOSBox, and when I exit it doesn't reset the screen resolution. So I reset it manually by typing
xrandr -output e-DP1 -auto
More of a shortcut, CTRL + A + D to exit the current session (exits a sudo su first, then a ssh, then the actual terminal)
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