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Oh My Posh a beautiful prompt for your shell

1 Comment / CLI / By sedlav / June 3, 2023

Oh My Posh is a custom prompt engine for any shell that has the ability to adjust the prompt string with a function or variable. It’s beautiful, elegant and intuitive; if you use git from the command line it will be great for you, it has several predefined themes that allow you to customize your prompt in a matter of seconds, it is also possible to create your own theme, it is compatible with BASH, PowerShell, CMD, Fish, Zsh and nushell is developed in golang and can be installed on GNU/Linux, MacOS, Windows and Termux (Android).

pkgin, a NetBSD package manager

Leave a Comment / CLI / By sedlav / November 6, 2021

pkgin is aimed at being an apt / yum like tool for managing pkgsrc binary packages. It relies on pkg_summary(5) for installation, removal and upgrade of packages and associated dependencies, using a remote repository.

Termux a terminal emulator for Android

Leave a Comment / CLI / By sedlav / June 14, 2020

Termux is a terminal emulator for Android and a minimalistic GNU / Linux environment. Termux installs a minimum default base system allowing additional applications to be installed using the apt package manager. Termux does not need your phone to be rooted to run.

Wake up your computer using rtcwake

Leave a Comment / CLI / By sedlav / May 5, 2020

If we want to “wake up” the computer at a certain moment, we can use the rtcwake command. rtcwake hibernates or suspends the system and to automatically wake from it at a specified time

A practical example of the du and awk commands

2 Comments / CLI / By sedlav / February 13, 2020

Today I bring you an interesting tip about du command, the problem was proposed by a friend in the following way: I want to know the available hard disk space, I told him: use the df command.

Reading a file line by line from BASH

Leave a Comment / CLI / By sedlav / November 26, 2016

To read a file line byline from BASH you use an of the following variants

1. While, read, operator < 2. Cat, while, read 3. AWK

How to create directories from a text file

Leave a Comment / CLI / By sedlav / November 7, 2016

I have a list of directories in a text file.

Q. Can I create directories from the previous text file?

A. Yes, you can use the xargs command.

16 Practical rsync examples

2 Comments / CLI / By sedlav / June 12, 2016

Rsync is a fast and versatile file synchronization tool that allows to copy and sync files locally and from rsync service or any device that supports remote shell (Rsync does not support synchronization between remote devices). Rsync offers a large number of options that control every aspect of its behaviour and permit very flexible specification of the set of files to be copied.

25 Practical examples of the find command

Leave a Comment / CLI / By sedlav / June 3, 2016

find is a utility that allows to search files (regular file, directory, symbolic link…) through a hierarchy of directories, it is powerful and feature-rich.

Clean up the GNU/Linux console

Leave a Comment / CLI / By sedlav / May 25, 2016

If your console (terminal) is in a state where you don't see what you write because of an aborted ssh session or it is showing unreadable characters after trying to open a binary, this can be solved by typing the command: