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[โ€“] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Not a specific command, but I learned recently you can just dump any executable script into ~/bin and run it from the terminal.

I suffer greatly from analysis paralysis, I have a very hard time making decisions especially if there's many options. So I wrote a script that reads a text file full of tasks and just picks one. It took me like ten minutes to write and now I spend far more time doing stuff instead of doing nothing and feeling badly that I can't decide what to do.

[โ€“] friend_of_satan@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

This is because $HOME/bin is in your $PATH environment variable. You can add more paths that you'd like to execute scripts from, like a personal git repo that contains your scripts.

I think the standard is ~/.local/bin, for the people that like standards.

or add it to path