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Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity) (blog.hofstede.it)
submitted 1 day ago by lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 39 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Nothing gets my nerdrage on more than using CTRL+w in a browser-based shell and closing the tab.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 5 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

Pretty much the one and only good thing about work forcing us to switch from Linux laptops to Macbooks.

[–] MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk 5 points 15 hours ago

The mixed used of the command key and CTRL on Macs has tricked me to pressing command+w in a terminal window quite a few times.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 6 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I hated the Command + C and Command + V for Copy / Paste until I realized it meant not clobbering ^C in the terminal. Instantly loved it.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 5 points 16 hours ago

The biggest issue I have with it is that I have Linux on all my personal systems and OSX on my work laptop and sometimes switch rapidly between them.

My fingers don't seem to adapt as quickly, though, and I often press the wrong combination between them.

[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah, annoying that it has different meanings.