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   Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 04:13:38 JST Julia Evans

   slowly working on a mega terminal cheat sheet

   here's a link to the draft as a PDF: https://jvns.ca/terminal-cheat-sheet-draft.pdf

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     Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 04:49:39 JST Luke T. Shumaker

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     • Weasel

     @weaselx86 In Bash you have to enable **/ with `shopt - extglob`.

     @b0rk **/ is useful enough and Bash common enough that IMO it'd be worth adding the above to the sheet.

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     Weasel (weaselx86@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 04:49:40 JST Weasel

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     • Laukidh

     @Laukidh @b0rk

     I tried **/*.txt and got the same result as my usual */*.txt. Using bash, but I've always used */*.txt with previous shells such as sh and csh.

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     Laukidh (laukidh@infosec.exchange)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 04:49:41 JST Laukidh

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     @b0rk **/ is new to me

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     Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 05:18:43 JST Luke T. Shumaker

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     @b0rk Because (1) Bash caches PATH lookups by default and sometimes that causes confusing discrepancies with `which`, and (2) `which` isn't always installed, I encourage folks to basically always use `type` instead of `which`.

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     Xenotar (xenotar@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 10:19:00 JST Xenotar

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     • Aléxia :peitudaMetida: :celeste_hearts_lesbian:

     @b0rk @naoEhAlexa

     Also, I use a lot:

     ! xyz repeats the command number xyz in the history list.

     !pattern repeats the last command in the history list that matches the pattern .

     Example, given this history
     505 dmesg
     506 history
     507 top
     508 tail *OUT
     509 history

     !505 -> repeats dmesg
     !to -> repeats top
     !ta -> repeats tail

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     Weasel (weaselx86@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 11:22:56 JST Weasel

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     • Luke T. Shumaker

     @lukeshu @b0rk

     extglob seems to be on by default on my system (Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS).

     I still don't understand what the difference is supposed to be between
     */*.txt and **/*.txt

     Here are my "glob" shopt settings:
     dotglob off
     extglob on
     failglob off
     globstar off
     nocaseglob off
     nullglob off

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     Luke T. Shumaker (lukeshu@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 11:22:56 JST Luke T. Shumaker

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     • Weasel

     @weaselx86 @b0rk

     ** searches down _multiple_ directory levels recursively. So while they'd both find things 1 layer down like foo/bar.txt, **/*.txt will find foo/bar/baz.txt while */*.txt won't.