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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Saturday, 11-Oct-2025 21:49:14 JST kaia

   another #linux question if I may: how do you deal with long and complex folder paths in the terminal?

   ./Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner-Board Certified (PMHNP-BC)/ ./Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner-Board Certified (PMHNP-BC) Test Book 2025/
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     hiddenalpha (hiddenalpha@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Oct-2025 22:16:26 JST hiddenalpha

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     @kaia
     Glob patterns can be handy too:

     echo Psy*Test*

     echo Psy*BC?

     Same works for any command. Like with cd:

     cd Psy*BC?

     In my example "*" stands for several chars and "?" says here's exactly one char. shell globs have some more features like sequences, sets etc.

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Saturday, 11-Oct-2025 22:16:51 JST kaia

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     • hiddenalpha
     @hiddenalpha oh that is new to me, thank you!!
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     sampo (sampo@pleroma.soykaf.com)'s status on Saturday, 11-Oct-2025 22:18:11 JST sampo

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     @kaia bind TAB:menu-complete
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     Martina Neumayer (martinaneumayer@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Oct-2025 23:35:49 JST Martina Neumayer

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     @kaia With tabulator key.

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     ZeStig (zstg@fedia.social)'s status on Saturday, 11-Oct-2025 23:44:14 JST ZeStig

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     @kaia tab complete and zoxide (thanks for the video @thelinuxcast!)

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     बुद्धीविनाषक् भेड़ मीपर् [Meeper] (meeper@udongein.xyz)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 01:29:40 JST बुद्धीविनाषक् भेड़ मीपर् [Meeper]

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     @kaia Wildcards?
     
     * - matchws any Character 0 and infinity times so like Psy*Test\ Book\ 2025
     
     ? matches any (single character)
     
     You'd probaby need regex for some stuff and fine yourself using Find+xargs (or something less shitth like fd)
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     👾 Seher Taak 🐃 (taak@troet.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 12-Oct-2025 01:50:36 JST 👾 Seher Taak 🐃

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     @kaia Use the fzf shell plugin. Then hit alt-c fuzzy search to your destination directory.

     https://junegunn.github.io/fzf/shell-integration/

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     Aroop Roelofs (finlaydag33k@social.linux.pizza)'s status on Monday, 13-Oct-2025 03:30:24 JST Aroop Roelofs

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     @kaia I use "nushell" which allows me to just press `tab` and then I can just select whichever option I want with the arrow keys and pressing "enter".

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     Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥 (andrzejwasowski@social.itu.dk)'s status on Monday, 13-Oct-2025 16:23:00 JST Andrzej Wąsowski ☑️ 🟥

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     @kaia Also: fzf https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

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