Comment by asphodele
7 hours ago
A few tidbits I wish I had known about sooner:
bash: Ctrl-L to clear the screen
VSCodium: Shift+Alt+[arrows|mouse click] to select a rectangular block
scp for moving files (instead of ftp)
7 hours ago
A few tidbits I wish I had known about sooner:
bash: Ctrl-L to clear the screen
VSCodium: Shift+Alt+[arrows|mouse click] to select a rectangular block
scp for moving files (instead of ftp)
Ctrl-lpj is ingrained in my fingers.
Ctrl-l to clear the screen, Ctrl-p to select previous command, Ctrl-j to enter it again. I don't even use Enter key when in terminal anymore.
When you want to pause entering a command for a moment do Ctrl-a to go to the start of the line, and type # to comment out. Then Ctrl-j. You can return to that later with Ctrl-p, then Ctrl-a again and Ctrl-d to remove that comment.
To edit complex commands you might want to use Alt-e to enter $EDITOR.
Yes, but try rsync instead of scp. Mind the slash though!
Both rsync -avz /path/to/file user@server:/another/path/to/ or rsync -avz /path/to/file/ user@server:/another/path/to/file
Will create directory named /another/path/to/file which will contain all contents of the original directory (/path/to/file/*).
Basically, if you include the trailing slash in the source path, only contents of the directory will be copied (useful when you need to rename it).
If you omit the trailing slash in the source path, rsync will create the target directory for you. See man rsync for more info.