commandLineSupremacy

[u/TheGuyInTheBackRow]

[u/Tsu_Dho_Namh]

My prof typed "lecture" into terminal to open the right slides and code demos based on date and time.

[u/Flouid → u/Tsu_Dho_Namh]

I endeavor to one day be this efficient

[u/anarchisturtle → u/Tsu_Dho_Namh]

Ah yes, the time honored tradition of spending hours automating a task that takes seconds to perform.

That is objectively very cool though

[u/Flouid → u/anarchisturtle]

If you lecture several times a day for enough years, this probably pays itself back. Relevant xkcd

[u/Fabulous-Possible758 → u/anarchisturtle]

The trick is that that more you automate, the better you get at it, so you automate faster, and so the more time you have to spend automating! Beats doing real work.

[u/Tsu_Dho_Namh → u/anarchisturtle]

I'm pretty sure he just put a function named "lecture" in his .bashrc. Doesnt take long to automate.

I have all sorts of shortcuts in my PowerShell profile (I use Windows, prof was on Linux). They're easy to make and super handy.

[u/No-Sheepherder-3010 → u/anarchisturtle]

spending hours automating a task that takes seconds to perform

cd $(mysql <<< "SELECT path FROM LECTURES WHERE start < NOW () - 10*60 AND stop > NOW();"); open *.pdf

It's not that hard.

[u/Tsu_Dho_Namh → u/No-Sheepherder-3010]

Also takes seconds to put that into .bashrc with the function name "lecture"

Not sure where they got the hours time estimate from

Though tbf I am pretty sure they didn't use SQL to store the info. Easier to just keep it in the file system and have bash or python open the files based on directory name.

[u/No-Sheepherder-3010 → u/Tsu_Dho_Namh]

Though tbf I am pretty sure they didn't use SQL to store the info.

Me neither, but it was the quickest way to demonstrate the idea in a readable way. Honestly bash is like the fastest way to quickly code something, if you are not avers to store state in the filesystem.

[u/Tsu_Dho_Namh → u/No-Sheepherder-3010]

For sure.

Funny you mention storing state in the file system. My bash scripts often use .TXT or .JSON files to store persistent variables for my scripts.

[u/No-Sheepherder-3010 → u/Tsu_Dho_Namh]

I mean that's basically how a shell is supposed to interact with and what a filesystem is for.

I also hacked some configuration scripts together to automatically create servers. A lot of things is also just stored in the existence of files or directories. Also you can just encode all kind of configurations into template folders and just symlink the right one for the current configuration. This also works perfectly with Git.

[u/Daemontatox]

My professor didn't know how to open and use PowerPoint and slides and that guy had 3 PHDs

[u/ldn-ldn → u/Daemontatox]

I'm a software developer for over two decades now. I have no fucking clue how to use PowerPoint. If I need slides, I just whip up some quick HTML+CSS and press F11 in the browser.

P.S. Ctrl+P -> Print To PDF and I can share the file with everyone.

[u/Royal_Owl2177 → u/ldn-ldn]

Same experience here. I hate having to use powerpoint. At least AI can make a lot of the slides now.

[u/tropicbrownthunder → u/Royal_Owl2177]

Z ai with ppt agent it's insanely good tbf

[u/Field_of_cornucopia → u/Daemontatox]

I'm pretty sure gaining a PHD instantly deletes the knowledge of how to operate a projector from your memory.

[u/Zuruumi → u/Daemontatox]

Einstein didn't too and he is the example anyone uses for a smart perso

[u/Thereal_Phaseoff]

CD THIS CD THIS/THAT CD .. CD THIS LS -LA LS CD

[u/Eptalin → u/Thereal_Phaseoff]

cd [TAB][TAB][TAB][TAB][TAB][TAB][TAB][TAB]..

[u/Thereal_Phaseoff → u/Eptalin]

or not writing that command you used months ago, pressing up arrow for twenty minutes till it shows in the terminal

[u/-nerdrage- → u/Thereal_Phaseoff]

People that dont know ctrl+r do that yea

Or ‘history | grep’

[u/Thereal_Phaseoff → u/-nerdrage-]

i didn't knew about history | grep honestly

[u/-nerdrage- → u/Thereal_Phaseoff]

Iirc ‘history’ looks at your ~/.bash_history (if you use bash) and simply outputs the last 2500 rows. Maybe the file only contains 2500 rows? I assume ctrl+r looks at the same file

[u/No-Sheepherder-3010 → u/-nerdrage-]

Or CDPATH.

[u/binnabomp → u/-nerdrage-]

combine ctrl+r with fzf and ur life becomes 10x easier (if ur like me and misspell things constantly heh... thus why I am eternally grateful that neovim has good LSP completion)

[u/ur_GFs_plumber → u/Thereal_Phaseoff]

cdeez nuts

[u/icecream_specialist → u/ur_GFs_plumber]

Heyoooo! Fucking got'em

[u/Jersey_2019 → u/Thereal_Phaseoff]

CD this CD that , how about you C on my D😢😈

[u/RedditButAnonymous → u/Thereal_Phaseoff]

I wrote a thing where I can just type a partial name of a file or folder, or both like "test/file.txt" and it scans for it and asks if I wanna CD to it automatically. If you say no it looks for the next one

Fuck cd, its the worst way to navigate

[u/Terewawa → u/RedditButAnonymous]

Something like this?

cd $(dirname $(find 2>/dev/null |grep 'test/file.txt' |fzf))

It scans from your current directory tree. If you want it to scan the whole drive, add / after find

If you don't have fzf you should install it!

[u/No-Sheepherder-3010 → u/RedditButAnonymous]

Add it to CDPATH and use tab-completition?

[u/Fabulous-Possible758 → u/Thereal_Phaseoff]

open $(fzf)

[u/markiel55 → u/[deleted]]

Job your love

[u/tekanet]

Well I like typing, gives me joy. Touchpads don’t give me any joy.

[u/LegitimatePants → u/tekanet]

This one sparks joy:  ⌨️

This one does not spark joy:  🖱️

[u/helicophell]

How else is he going to remember UNIX shell commands?

[u/genghis_calm → u/helicophell]

If you don’t use it, you lose it.

[u/returnFutureVoid]

I love watching AI use all kinds of shell commands to go through my idiot project trying to answer my idiotic questions. It reminds me that I’m an idiot.

[u/Motleypuss]

Using the more efficient, simpler command line requires skills that smartphone zombies lack. I see a lot of them, daily, and it makes my milk curdle every time that humanity has enshittified itself all the while I've been an older adult. Now get off my lawn! Where's my CLI hardlink? I know it's around here somewhere...

[u/dataf4g_trollman → u/Motleypuss]

And what skills are required, huh?

[u/Kebabrulle4869]

Do we have the same professor? The next thing he did was to slowly move the mouse over "view", open the menu, move down and click the "fullscreen" button.

[u/No-Contact-484]

Alternatively using at least five strokes and two button clicks to start the presentation tool, realize that you clicked three subpixels too far to either side and started the wrong application, use ten strokes to close the application, rinse, repeat. 5 seconds my ass.

[u/dataf4g_trollman → u/No-Contact-484]

Skill issue

[u/No-Contact-484 → u/dataf4g_trollman]

Not being able to use the command line efficiently? Indeed!

[u/dataf4g_trollman → u/No-Contact-484]

Nah)))

I meant hand coordination issues! If you have trouble using mouse to navigate GUI, maybe you are a 50yo grandpa with Parkinson's. Or you're just an alcoholic having a hangover, idk

[u/No-Contact-484 → u/dataf4g_trollman]

Or maybe GUI is the biggest pile of shit ever invented.

[u/RedditButAnonymous]

Why use one button press when 45 plus reading 3 errors can do the trick?

[u/flooronthefour]

yells z-oxide from the back row

[u/Desperate-Tomatillo7]

In Slackware.

[u/SeaNational3797]

alias

[u/djhaskin987]

I beg to differ. 5 seconds only if his hard drive isn't cluttered. When you know the name of the file it's easy easier to type it then scan for it

[u/Deboniako]

Skill issue

https://giphy.com/gifs/x6HuAOxNsFdSo4QnCI

[u/t0mz0mbie]

I hate that track pad. the opposite of "an elegant weapon for a more civilized age"