10mo ago

Up up and away we go

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I'm not a programmer but I do this on the Linux command line all the time to find a command I used days or weeks ago. Or I'll spend 20 minutes grepping history instead. All to avoid spending 5 minutes reading the manpage so I can remember which flags and arguments I used.
- Perhaps pressing [Ctrl]+[R] and typing to search makes it easier, I mean instead of grepping history?
  Most terminal emulators support it.
  You can also change your query (backspacing and typing again) and press [Ctrl]+[R] multiple times to go to older matches.
  
  I will have to try that, I didn't know that functionality existed, thanks!
  
  Also, atuin.sh.
- And then you realise your dumb endless ls-ing has pushed the command off the history list
  
  This is too accurate!
  
  Can you change the history list size?
- ctrl+r to do a reverse search of the history instead
May i introduce u to atuin
- I think you mean Crtl+R in bash
  
  What does this sometimes appear not to work for me even though the command is clearly in the history?
- Nah thanks, up arrow hasnt failed me yet
- I don't believe in A'tuin. The world is obviously carried on the back of a badger.
  
  But the turtle moves.
- Have you used fish? The built-in fuzzy matching works pretty well for me. Wondering if there's any reason to add atuin in. Sync seems like a negative to me more than a positive.
  
  Yeah they are compatible. Sync can be disabled entirely or self hosted.
  
  I use fish with atuin but without sync. It is nice because I can search commands for a given workspace. For example the commands within a given git repository.
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Okay, NOW it's getting personal!
me typing “sudo !!” instead of rewriting the shell command undoes this.
Who is writing SQL in the terminal?
- MariaDB CLI about once in a blue moon when I have to clear some table that's gotten borked.
- Was thinking the same thing... now, searching through all my SQL scripts for the past year to find the same logic I want to replicate in another script, well that's different.
  
  I save "template" SQL queries in a special directory so that I don't have to google how to do specific things. It's basically my own personal "examples" folder.
Me in the bash terminal

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