Vector terminal screenshots: xterm > CTRL+left_mouse_button > svg screen dump
enca file.txt -L czech
- detect encoding of the file.txt, assume it's in czech.
enca file.txt -L czech -x utf-8
- detect and convert encoding of the file.txt to utf-8, assume it's in czech.
dd bs=4M if=os_img.iso of=/dev/sdb status=progress
- create bootable usb drive by writing os_img.iso to /dev/sdb, show progress.
vim -p $(grep -rl '#warn')
- open all files containing "#warn" as tabs in vim. search current directory recursively.
https://lvc.github.io/pkgdiff/ - An awesome tool for visualizing changes in Linux software packages
curl
http://wttr.in/ - get weather in ASCII using your terminal or browser.
https://github-forks.abumalick.com/ - find maintained forks of your favorite GitHub repos.
Python searches /usr/local/lib/python...
before /usr/lib/python...
- it had caused me problems.
getopts
is a (POSIX) shell builtin that can parse simple arguments.
getopt
is an external command (GNU and BSD variants) that can parse all kinds of arguments.
Many tools are bound to a single directory - this greatly simplifies usage of the tool by reducing the amount of possibilities. (Makefile
, Dockerfile
, Rakefile
, etc.)