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What's a handy terminal command you use often? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by cybercitizen4@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] HeartyOfGlass@lemm.ee 22 points 2 months ago (4 children)

clear. Constantly, and for no reason.

[–] igorette@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ctrl-L

[–] HeartyOfGlass@lemm.ee 26 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh. I know. But you don't understand - I'm compelled to type it out. I must.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I used to, but the terminal clear is better, so I don't.

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

CMD/CTRL-K for me.

[–] 7dev7random7@suppo.fi 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Someone who doesn't know the benefits of dedicated, unlimited scrollback buffers. This command is useful but has a bad effect (when unintentionally).

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

No, I do. Clearing the scrollback because I want a new, very clear start point for a new activity and don't care about the rest is frequently the goal.

If I do care about the history I'll do something else or possibly been saving history to disk, although that's far more rare.

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

I like it so much I alised it to c.

[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 points 2 months ago

i’d like to introduce you to your new best friend: reset… it doesn’t everything clear does and a LOT more

[–] omxxi@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

haha, I can relate to that :). formerly I had the compulsion to execute sync frequently. Now my compulsion is to push Ctrl-C like 4 times every time I need it. I read somewhere that's common because of ^C has a lack of feedback to the user, so, a script showing an alert that the clipboard received some information helped with this compulsion.