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@climagic

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Cool Unix/Linux Command Line tricks you can use in $TWITTER_CHAR_LIMIT characters or less. Here mostly to inspire. Also on https://t.co/YYJE9JpVnF

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@climagic
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7 months
Wondering where the content is? I've been on Mastodon for years (@climagic) and now Bluesky ( as well. I tend to post more to those networks lately and will reduce the amount here (whatever you want to call this place anymore).
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8 months
Every Unix is sacred, every Unix is best, every Unix is different, when you run ps.
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9 months
Please vote. (And yes, these are VT100 keycaps)
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9 months
RT @ychaouche: If you like @climagic then I just found an underrated youtube channel that you might be interrested in. I've watched a coupl….
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Command Line Magic
9 months
I can talk to plants and they say they want water.
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9 months
RT @gumnos: Here's your regular reminder that you can toggle options within less(1) without having to re-start it. Type minus followed by t….
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9 months
Besides, they might say one day that they think all us Linux users believe in freedom too much and should be sent to Antarctica in exile to be with the penguins.
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9 months
I have a rule for climagic of "No politics", but I'm violating that rule because quite frankly this is more important than the command line. This is about protecting my family and yours and I'm just trying to do something instead of ignoring it. You can too. Be strong.
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9 months
Dear Supporters of Trump, .I'd like to even call you fellow Americans, partners in democracy, friends, and neighbors.
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Oct 30, 2024 Dear Supporters of Trump, I'd like to even call you fellow Americans, partners in democracy, and friends. We have less than one week to save the America that you love, because once you...
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9 months
Now would be a great time to learn Morse Code.
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Command Line Magic
10 months
What kind of loser attacks the Internet Archive. Seriously not cool.
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10 months
If you've been looking to get the new CLImagic stickers at a reduced price, I have a coupon SUSOOCT20OFF running til the end of the month for 20% off.
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Command Line Magic
10 months
Sorry, the command got cut off when I copy/pasted it. for i in {16. 250};do printf "\x1b[48;5;${i}m%$(($COLUMNS*$LINES))s" "";sleep 0.1;done.
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Command Line Magic
10 months
Countdown to 20,000 + surprise (bash version + requires cowsay):. tt=$((20000*86400));until [[ $(date +%s) -ge $tt ]];do cowsay $(($tt - $(date +%s) ));sleep 1;clear;done ; for i in {16. 250};do printf "\x1b[48;5;${i}m%.
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10 months
Some of you might remember celebrating day 15,000.
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10 months
Happy 20,000th day of Unix epoch time:. echo $(( $( date +%s ) / 86400 )).
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Command Line Magic
11 months
HP adding AI to their printers. "I'm sorry Dave, I can't print that.".
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11 months
If you are a user of geeqie (a nice *nix photo viewer) and need to start a second session, but don't want it to interfere with the first, you can use the -n option:. geeqie -n. Check 'man geeqie' for a bunch of other useful options.
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11 months
That one time they let me make the agenda posters. #TBT #xkcd #linux #security
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11 months
Add some spice to your text by randomly coloring each word in a text file. head -n30 cat_haiku.txt | awk 'BEGIN{srand()} RS=" " {c=int(rand()*200)+32;printf "\033[38;5;" c "m" $0 "\033[0m "}'
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