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Command Line Magic

@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
Command Line Magic
9 months
Wondering where the content is? I've been on Mastodon for years (@climagic) and now Bluesky ( https://t.co/AeJASx55bN) 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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Command Line Magic
10 months
Every Unix is sacred, every Unix is best, every Unix is different, when you run ps.
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Command Line Magic
11 months
Please vote. (And yes, these are VT100 keycaps)
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Yassine Chaouche
11 months
If you like @climagic then I just found an underrated youtube channel that you might be interrested in. I've watched a couple of his videos and they're all about the beauty of command line and bash scripting. Check out this video on FZF for example :
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@climagic
Command Line Magic
1 year
I can talk to plants and they say they want water.
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Tim Chase
1 year
Here's your regular reminder that you can toggle options within less(1) without having to re-start it. Type minus followed by the option-letter. So -i for case-(in)sensitivity -R for ANSI handling -S for wrapping long lines -N for line-numbers -g for search-match highlighting
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Command Line Magic
1 year
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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Command Line Magic
1 year
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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Command Line Magic
1 year
Now would be a great time to learn Morse Code.
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Command Line Magic
1 year
What kind of loser attacks the Internet Archive. Seriously not cool.
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Command Line Magic
1 year
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. https://t.co/M5ZMUbzCn9
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Command Line Magic
1 year
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
1 year
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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Command Line Magic
1 year
Some of you might remember celebrating day 15,000 https://t.co/8OKASTmtW4
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Command Line Magic
1 year
Happy 20,000th day of Unix epoch time: echo $(( $( date +%s ) / 86400 ))
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Command Line Magic
1 year
HP adding AI to their printers. "I'm sorry Dave, I can't print that." https://t.co/ErnYX9LKiR
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Command Line Magic
1 year
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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Command Line Magic
1 year
That one time they let me make the agenda posters. #TBT #xkcd #linux #security
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Command Line Magic
1 year
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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