Entries tagged command-line interface (cli)
Simple calculator on the command line
Post a message to your twtxt file with no client
Short roadmap & resources to learn to use LaTeX
Set up and start using GPG with Mutt: sign & encrypt messages
Where to search for answers about usage of GPG?
Copy from xterm to clipboard
Mount, unmount and power-off a LUKS-encrypted volume
Back up LUKS’s header of an encrypted volume
Mount a USB device, e.g. a USB stick or a hard drive
A decluttered, minimal and customised desktop with netinstall Trisquel GNU/Linux
Check if Swap partition is active
Show the total size of a folder recursively with du
Remove metadata from a file e.g. a photo with mat2
Remove all files except one with find and rm
Check log entries after crash on GNU/Linux with journalctl
List files of a zip archive file without unzipping it with zip
Create a “self-deploying” website (no server to manage) with Codeberg Pages
Git: Push only the last commit to remote
Git: Move all non-pushed commits to a new branch
Git: Only merge the last commit of a specific branch to the main branch
Abook: Show birthdays for the next 30 days
Move message to another folder in Mutt
Log in into a text-based session (tty)
Find out how much memory (RAM) a laptop has with free
Remapping the key Caps Lock as Ctrl on GNU/Linux
Delete all emails at once in Mutt
Git: Select which staged files to commit
Git: Check which branch.es have been merged with the main branch
Sum up a column of numbers in a text file from the command line with Datamash
Test internet speed from command-line interface with speedtest-cli
Git: Add the keyid of a signing GPG keypair to git config and sign commits
Display mailboxes in Mutt’s sidebar
Display Notmuch search results with Mutt
Look up U.S. Zip codes from the command line offline
Less: do not wrap lines - use horizontal scroll to browse full lines
(Solved) Mutt sends an empty email when I click on a mailto: link in Abrowser
Memo: Mutt’s Index flags
Convert text to an ASCII art slanted text banner
Adjust delay between audio and video in VLC
Reverse (flip) the order of rows of a text file with tac
Convert an HTML webpage into a “clean” Markdown file
Curate your own web, search your own web with lieu
Generate a fake list of name, email address, phone number and more with faker
sdcv: an offline dictionary you can query from the command line
Display the conjugation of French and Italian verbs in the terminal
Git: Change the color of git’s output e.g. git diff
Pass the output of french-conjugator (verbiste’s cli) to less
Delete large log files with ncdu - “no space left on device”
Install and run Libretranslate on your computer
Add a dictionary to sdcv (Stardic’s cli)
Look up the definition of a word in a specific dictionary with sdcv
Create a YAML template with variables to pass when compiling a pdf with Pandoc
Run a command on the output of a first command
Increase line spacing when compiling a pdf with Pandoc
Pass sdcv’s output to less
Create a contingency table (a.k.a. cross tabulation) with Datamash
Set up msmtp to queue ‘sent emails’ when you are offline
Highlight current date with Cal (cli)
Find and connect to WiFi networks from the command line with nmcli
Show decimal numbers with bc
Turn a pad into a website with Cryptpad and Codeberg Page (no code)
Change margins when producing pdf files with Pandoc
Display JPEG attachment in Mutt
Remove all git files from a local repository
Guidelines for password management for small and medium organisations
Modify permission to make a Bash script file executable with chmod
Count number of page(s) of one or multiple pdf files with pdfinfo, grep and awk
Remove pages from a pdf file from the command line with pdfseparate and pdfunite
Create and populate a file from the command line with cat
Display a .csv file as a table in the terminal with Visidata
Convert a .ods file to a .csv file from the command line with libreoffice
Send an email from the command line with msmtp
Remove a specific range of files at once from the command line
Convert a PDF to 2 pages per sheet from 1 page per sheet from the command line with pdfxup
Git: Show changes (diff) that are staged
Add a second email account to your Mutt, msmtp, mbsync configuration
Resize an image on the command line with the utilty convert
Unzip (decompress) and extract files from a .tar.gz file
Remove page numbers when producing a .pdf file using Pandoc
View PDF attachments as text in Mutt
Downloads all your emails from ProtonMail with mbsync
Git: Commit only partial changes of a file
Git: Checkout partial changes of a file interactively
Check for existing SSH keys
List available fonts on a system from the command line with fc-list
Copy a file from your local machine to a remote server with rsync
Indent multiple lines in Vim
Show file permissions on the command line with ls
Append text at the end of a line with Sed
Grep multiple patterns (words) occuring at the beginning of a line
Grep multiple patterns
Renew LetsEncrypt certificates & set up auto-renew with cron
Multiply field’s (column’s) entries and sum them up with awk
Sum values per group (of a text/data file) from the command line with Datamash
Memo to change permissions in absolute modes with chmod
You don’t need new apps (or to search the web) to get things done
Convert files to .ogg from .flac from the command line with ffmpeg
Show SSH’s key fingerprint
Part 2: Connect to shared server (VPS) using SSH
Show the release (“version”) of the kernel on GNU/Linux
Automatically indent HTML tags in Vim
Add a new website to a server running nginx, LetsEncrypt HTTPS and Certbot
Backup /etc/letsencrypt directory with rsync from remote server to local machine
Prepend multiple files with a pattern with the command line with Bash
Switch default browser from the command line
View content of a tar.gz archive without extracting with tar
Compress multiple directories (folders) with gzip
My .muttrc file
Start using Mutt: a setup with GPG, mbsync, msmtp and notmuch
Git: Change the email address git uses
Set up your own webserver (& webpage) with nginx, LetsEncrypt and Certbot
Remove “Save in password manager” option in GPG pinentry
Uncomment a line with sed (i.e. delete #)
Change the time zone used by date on GNU/Linux
Set up a VPS with Trisquel GNU/Linux NetInstall
[Solved] Permission denied (publickey,password) with correct password
Change root password on GNU/Linux
Undelete a message in Mutt
Show size of a file from the command line with ls or du
GPG: Show the keyID of subkeys
GPG: Show or export GPG public key
Vim: Error “E212: Can’t open file for writing”
GPG: Show the key ID of key used to encrypt
Create and store email aliases for Mutt
Append multiple lines at the end of a file with cat
Set up your own instance of Jitsi
Send an email from the command line with Mutt
Justify text in Vim
Set Mutt to store deleted messages in the trash folder
Check whether a package is installed on GNU/Linux
Check whether a package is availabile in the repository of a GNU/Linux distribution with apt list
Git: Undo the last commit, nothing more
Git: Remove a file from the last commit
Pass the output of the last command as an argument to the next
Mutt: store passwords encrypted with GPG
Exclude files and directories when listing with ls
Find out the license of a programme locally
List directories (folders) only with ls
Show lines below and/or above a match with grep
My current Vim mnemonic sheet
Shortcuts to edit on the command line
Create a permanent alias for a command
Edit and reexecute a command from the shell history with fc
Open all grepped files in vim
Count the number of files grepped with wc
Find files created or modified in the last days with find
Move (cp) all files found with the command find
Count the number of files in a folder with wc
Display the amount of disk space available with df
GPGtar: Encrypt and decrypt a directory with a symmetric cipher using a passphrase with gpgtar
Edit the message of the last commit
Copy a command from the shell history to a file
Copy a command from the shell history to the clipboard
Merge pdf files freely without installing another programme with pdfunite
Convert a pdf to a text file from the command line with pdftotext
Check the version a GNU/Linux distribution from the command line
Search multiple files for an expression (e.g. a keyword) with grep
Git: Create, edit and delete git alias
Commands and shortcuts I use the most in the Shell (the Terminal)
You don’t need a new app for your Zettelkasten
Show local time for a given time and date of a different time zone
Find out what takes up disk space on your computer with ncdu
Git: Squash (combine, merge) git commits together
Generate a table of contents on a pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Increase the font size of a pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Add today’s date automatically when converting a Markdown file to pdf with Pandoc
Show word count with Pandoc and a lua script
Show paragraph count on pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Rename multiple files from the command line with rename.ul
Copy, move or delete recently modified or downloaded files with find
Find files or directories from the command-line with find
You don’t need a new app to run a tagging system on your files: use the programme grep
Replace all occurences of a word in one or many files from the command line with sed
Aspell: Spellcheck a file in the shell (terminal
Compare files, “accept/reject” (like in Word) and merge changes, with diff and patch
Show word count of a text file from the command line with wc or pandoc & lua
A guide to simple and stupid usage of computers for writers (anyone who writes really)
Start using vim
Start using (the programme) “less” to display files
Start using Pandoc
Start using git to keep track of file versioning
Set Vim as the default text editor for Mutt
Show word count in vim
Start using the command-line interface (cli)
Remove file id extension from file name when downloading with youtube-dl
Download mp3 audio track only (no video) from YouTube with youtube-dl
Copy the content of a file to the clipboard from the command line with xclip
GPG: Change the expiration date (time) of a GPG subkey
Download mp3 files from a webpage with wget
Show the time of other time zones from the command line
Restore your data from backup with the programme Back in Time
Back up your computer (/home) on an external drive with the programme Back in Time
Switch from nano to vim as default editor in the shell
Make Pandoc file conversion faster
Git asks for password each time I “git push”. Solution: caching credentials with git
Convert an HTML webpage into an EPUB file with Pandoc
Follow a YouTube channel with RSS (without a Google/YouTube account)
Mac Terminal command-line interface (CLI) cheatsheet
A roadmap to reclaiming my attention and time
Follow websites or blogs you like with a RSS reader
git - remote: Invalid username or password. fatal: Authentication failed for [remote’s URL]
Git: Add a forgotten file to the last commit
Git: Edit the message of the last commit
Git: Add newly made modifications to the last commit
Post a message to your twtxt file with no client
Short roadmap & resources to learn to use LaTeX
Set up and start using GPG with Mutt: sign & encrypt messages
Where to search for answers about usage of GPG?
Copy from xterm to clipboard
Mount, unmount and power-off a LUKS-encrypted volume
Back up LUKS’s header of an encrypted volume
Mount a USB device, e.g. a USB stick or a hard drive
A decluttered, minimal and customised desktop with netinstall Trisquel GNU/Linux
Check if Swap partition is active
Show the total size of a folder recursively with du
Remove metadata from a file e.g. a photo with mat2
Remove all files except one with find and rm
Check log entries after crash on GNU/Linux with journalctl
List files of a zip archive file without unzipping it with zip
Create a “self-deploying” website (no server to manage) with Codeberg Pages
Git: Push only the last commit to remote
Git: Move all non-pushed commits to a new branch
Git: Only merge the last commit of a specific branch to the main branch
Abook: Show birthdays for the next 30 days
Move message to another folder in Mutt
Log in into a text-based session (tty)
Find out how much memory (RAM) a laptop has with free
Remapping the key Caps Lock as Ctrl on GNU/Linux
Delete all emails at once in Mutt
Git: Select which staged files to commit
Git: Check which branch.es have been merged with the main branch
Sum up a column of numbers in a text file from the command line with Datamash
Test internet speed from command-line interface with speedtest-cli
Git: Add the keyid of a signing GPG keypair to git config and sign commits
Display mailboxes in Mutt’s sidebar
Display Notmuch search results with Mutt
Look up U.S. Zip codes from the command line offline
Less: do not wrap lines - use horizontal scroll to browse full lines
(Solved) Mutt sends an empty email when I click on a mailto: link in Abrowser
Memo: Mutt’s Index flags
Convert text to an ASCII art slanted text banner
Adjust delay between audio and video in VLC
Reverse (flip) the order of rows of a text file with tac
Convert an HTML webpage into a “clean” Markdown file
Curate your own web, search your own web with lieu
Generate a fake list of name, email address, phone number and more with faker
sdcv: an offline dictionary you can query from the command line
Display the conjugation of French and Italian verbs in the terminal
Git: Change the color of git’s output e.g. git diff
Pass the output of french-conjugator (verbiste’s cli) to less
Delete large log files with ncdu - “no space left on device”
Install and run Libretranslate on your computer
Add a dictionary to sdcv (Stardic’s cli)
Look up the definition of a word in a specific dictionary with sdcv
Create a YAML template with variables to pass when compiling a pdf with Pandoc
Run a command on the output of a first command
Increase line spacing when compiling a pdf with Pandoc
Pass sdcv’s output to less
Create a contingency table (a.k.a. cross tabulation) with Datamash
Set up msmtp to queue ‘sent emails’ when you are offline
Highlight current date with Cal (cli)
Find and connect to WiFi networks from the command line with nmcli
Show decimal numbers with bc
Turn a pad into a website with Cryptpad and Codeberg Page (no code)
Change margins when producing pdf files with Pandoc
Display JPEG attachment in Mutt
Remove all git files from a local repository
Guidelines for password management for small and medium organisations
Modify permission to make a Bash script file executable with chmod
Count number of page(s) of one or multiple pdf files with pdfinfo, grep and awk
Remove pages from a pdf file from the command line with pdfseparate and pdfunite
Create and populate a file from the command line with cat
Display a .csv file as a table in the terminal with Visidata
Convert a .ods file to a .csv file from the command line with libreoffice
Send an email from the command line with msmtp
Remove a specific range of files at once from the command line
Convert a PDF to 2 pages per sheet from 1 page per sheet from the command line with pdfxup
Git: Show changes (diff) that are staged
Add a second email account to your Mutt, msmtp, mbsync configuration
Resize an image on the command line with the utilty convert
Unzip (decompress) and extract files from a .tar.gz file
Remove page numbers when producing a .pdf file using Pandoc
View PDF attachments as text in Mutt
Downloads all your emails from ProtonMail with mbsync
Git: Commit only partial changes of a file
Git: Checkout partial changes of a file interactively
Check for existing SSH keys
List available fonts on a system from the command line with fc-list
Copy a file from your local machine to a remote server with rsync
Indent multiple lines in Vim
Show file permissions on the command line with ls
Append text at the end of a line with Sed
Grep multiple patterns (words) occuring at the beginning of a line
Grep multiple patterns
Renew LetsEncrypt certificates & set up auto-renew with cron
Multiply field’s (column’s) entries and sum them up with awk
Sum values per group (of a text/data file) from the command line with Datamash
Memo to change permissions in absolute modes with chmod
You don’t need new apps (or to search the web) to get things done
Convert files to .ogg from .flac from the command line with ffmpeg
Show SSH’s key fingerprint
Part 2: Connect to shared server (VPS) using SSH
Show the release (“version”) of the kernel on GNU/Linux
Automatically indent HTML tags in Vim
Add a new website to a server running nginx, LetsEncrypt HTTPS and Certbot
Backup /etc/letsencrypt directory with rsync from remote server to local machine
Prepend multiple files with a pattern with the command line with Bash
Switch default browser from the command line
View content of a tar.gz archive without extracting with tar
Compress multiple directories (folders) with gzip
My .muttrc file
Start using Mutt: a setup with GPG, mbsync, msmtp and notmuch
Git: Change the email address git uses
Set up your own webserver (& webpage) with nginx, LetsEncrypt and Certbot
Remove “Save in password manager” option in GPG pinentry
Uncomment a line with sed (i.e. delete #)
Change the time zone used by date on GNU/Linux
Set up a VPS with Trisquel GNU/Linux NetInstall
[Solved] Permission denied (publickey,password) with correct password
Change root password on GNU/Linux
Undelete a message in Mutt
Show size of a file from the command line with ls or du
GPG: Show the keyID of subkeys
GPG: Show or export GPG public key
Vim: Error “E212: Can’t open file for writing”
GPG: Show the key ID of key used to encrypt
Create and store email aliases for Mutt
Append multiple lines at the end of a file with cat
Set up your own instance of Jitsi
Send an email from the command line with Mutt
Justify text in Vim
Set Mutt to store deleted messages in the trash folder
Check whether a package is installed on GNU/Linux
Check whether a package is availabile in the repository of a GNU/Linux distribution with apt list
Git: Undo the last commit, nothing more
Git: Remove a file from the last commit
Pass the output of the last command as an argument to the next
Mutt: store passwords encrypted with GPG
Exclude files and directories when listing with ls
Find out the license of a programme locally
List directories (folders) only with ls
Show lines below and/or above a match with grep
My current Vim mnemonic sheet
Shortcuts to edit on the command line
Create a permanent alias for a command
Edit and reexecute a command from the shell history with fc
Open all grepped files in vim
Count the number of files grepped with wc
Find files created or modified in the last days with find
Move (cp) all files found with the command find
Count the number of files in a folder with wc
Display the amount of disk space available with df
GPGtar: Encrypt and decrypt a directory with a symmetric cipher using a passphrase with gpgtar
Edit the message of the last commit
Copy a command from the shell history to a file
Copy a command from the shell history to the clipboard
Merge pdf files freely without installing another programme with pdfunite
Convert a pdf to a text file from the command line with pdftotext
Check the version a GNU/Linux distribution from the command line
Search multiple files for an expression (e.g. a keyword) with grep
Git: Create, edit and delete git alias
Commands and shortcuts I use the most in the Shell (the Terminal)
You don’t need a new app for your Zettelkasten
Show local time for a given time and date of a different time zone
Find out what takes up disk space on your computer with ncdu
Git: Squash (combine, merge) git commits together
Generate a table of contents on a pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Increase the font size of a pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Add today’s date automatically when converting a Markdown file to pdf with Pandoc
Show word count with Pandoc and a lua script
Show paragraph count on pdf document compiled with Pandoc
Rename multiple files from the command line with rename.ul
Copy, move or delete recently modified or downloaded files with find
Find files or directories from the command-line with find
You don’t need a new app to run a tagging system on your files: use the programme grep
Replace all occurences of a word in one or many files from the command line with sed
Aspell: Spellcheck a file in the shell (terminal
Compare files, “accept/reject” (like in Word) and merge changes, with diff and patch
Show word count of a text file from the command line with wc or pandoc & lua
A guide to simple and stupid usage of computers for writers (anyone who writes really)
Start using vim
Start using (the programme) “less” to display files
Start using Pandoc
Start using git to keep track of file versioning
Set Vim as the default text editor for Mutt
Show word count in vim
Start using the command-line interface (cli)
Remove file id extension from file name when downloading with youtube-dl
Download mp3 audio track only (no video) from YouTube with youtube-dl
Copy the content of a file to the clipboard from the command line with xclip
GPG: Change the expiration date (time) of a GPG subkey
Download mp3 files from a webpage with wget
Show the time of other time zones from the command line
Restore your data from backup with the programme Back in Time
Back up your computer (/home) on an external drive with the programme Back in Time
Switch from nano to vim as default editor in the shell
Make Pandoc file conversion faster
Git asks for password each time I “git push”. Solution: caching credentials with git
Convert an HTML webpage into an EPUB file with Pandoc
Follow a YouTube channel with RSS (without a Google/YouTube account)
Mac Terminal command-line interface (CLI) cheatsheet
A roadmap to reclaiming my attention and time
Follow websites or blogs you like with a RSS reader
git - remote: Invalid username or password. fatal: Authentication failed for [remote’s URL]
Git: Add a forgotten file to the last commit
Git: Edit the message of the last commit
Git: Add newly made modifications to the last commit
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