What's a handy terminal command you use often? - eviltoast
  • walden@sub.wetshaving.social
    6·
    2 months ago

    I learned you can edit .bashrc (in your home dir) and update the alias for ls to include what I like. It has saved me lots of keystrokes. Mine is ls -lha in addition to whatever color coding stuff is there by default.

          • walden@sub.wetshaving.social
            1·
            2 months ago

            Aha. Well, I guess I’m not the target audience because I can’t be bothered to go through the installation steps. It’s not in the LMDE repository, but I wish it were!

            • Noxious@fedia.io
              1·
              2 months ago

              It’s pretty easy. You either get it from Cargo (the Rust package manager) or add a custom repo to apt.

              Cargo is the easier and safer option: curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh && cargo install eza

              Custom apt repo:

              sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y gpg

sudo mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings
wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eza-community/eza/main/deb.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg
echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg] http://deb.gierens.de stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gierens.list
sudo chmod 644 /etc/apt/keyrings/gierens.gpg /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gierens.list
sudo apt update
sudo apt install -y eza

              In my opinion though, you should also try lsd. It’s even better than eza. You can also get it from Cargo, just a simple cargo install lsd.

    • 4am@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 months ago

      A lot of distros include a .bashrc with common ls aliases commented out, just waiting for you to activate them if you like.