Posts tagged: cli

To ignore commands that start with a space character, use the HIST_IGNORE_SPACE option in bash or zsh. setopt HIST_IGNORE_SPACE

Today I found a way to test model syntax, cause the clankers always get the exact model name that copilot wants wrong. copilot --model claude-sonnet-4.5 -p "Reply with OK" --allow-all --no-ask-user -s copilot --model gpt-5.4 -p "Reply with OK" --allow-all --no-ask-user -s

In the age of agents sometimes work gets done on so many different worktrees and branches its hard to tell if there is already a PR or any of them or not, the great gh cli has us covered. gh pr list --head fix/markata-go-connections-graph

- Yeah there’s some basics, you know things you might expect like using standard error and standard out correctly. One thing I’ll say on that because I think this is commonly misunderstood, standard error is not for errors, it’s for any information that isn’t part of the normal output. So you know often times that’s warnings and errors, but it might just be progress information. You know anytime that you just need to have something go to the user that’s what it’s there for." (6:15 - 6:42) I’ve definitely done this sin in my own tooling before, and it does make things harder to use. I think I still take err/out at face value. I really like the translation Jeff gave here, one is for normal output, i.e. what the user asked for and the other is extra information. So if I wanted to list something and pipe it into something else, stdout only captures the list, thats it. if you have a bunch of information about config warnings, showing environment, are you sure questions, none of that is captured. Note This post is a thought [1]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /thoughts/

When using two GitHub accounts the gh cli gives very easy gh auth switch workflow from the cli. from the docs gh auth switch –help Switch the active account for a GitHub host. This command changes the authentication configuration that will be used when running commands targeting the specified GitHub host. If the specified host has two accounts, the active account will be switched automatically. If there are more than two accounts, disambiguation will be required either through the --user flag or an interactive prompt. # list accounts gh auth status # switch accounds (interactive if more than 2, i've never seen this personally) gh auth switch

setting COLUMNS env var to a number greater than 0 will make the terminal resize to that number of columns. COLUMNS=80 uvx --from rich-cli rich myscript.py Note Not all programs respct the COLUMNS env var, but rich does, and a lot of stuff I’m building uses rich. I discovered this when I was trying to make a low effort readme generated from the code, but did not depend on the size of terminal it was ran on. # justfile readme: echo "# Workspaces" > README.md echo "" >> README.md echo '``` bash' >> README.md COLUMNS=80 ./workspaces.py --help >> README.md echo '```' >> README.md

The tea command for gitea (used by forgejo) has a flag for login. With gitea you can have multiple accounts logged in. When you try to run a command such as repo create it will prompt you which login to use, but I learned that you can bake it in to all of them with --login <login-name> ❯ tea repo create --name deleteme --description 'for example' ┃ NOTE: no gitea login detected, whether falling back to login 'git.waylonwalker.com'? [1] tea repo create --name deleteme --description 'for example' --login git.wayl.one References: [1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/11dc820d-1680-414c-9624-cd970b057a74.webp

- Atuin desktop sounds dope AF, tried to install it off the AUR [1] and it was broken for me. Seems early and the dev team is all in on mac. They have an official .deb and .rpm. I’ll have to try again later, maybe the binary will work. The idea of building out runbooks from my Atuin data sounds dope AF. It sounds like a mix of markdown and executable cells like a jupyter notebook, but not. Really pitching hard to those of us in the system administration, dev ops, SRE space. Having something that you walk through when a system goes down and you are feeling panicked in DR mode sounds relieving. Note This post is a thought [2]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: /aur/ [2]: /thoughts/

Today I learned how to use tar over ssh to save hours in file transfers. I keep all of my projects in ~/git [1] (very creative I know, I’ve done it for years and haven’t changed). I just swapped out my main desktop from bazzite to hyprland, and wanted to get all of my projects back. Before killing my bazzite install I moved everything over (16GB of many small files), it took over 14 hours, maybe longer. I had started in the morning and just let it churn. This was not going to happen for re-seeding all of my projects on my new system, I knew there had to be a better way, I looked at rsync, but for seeding I ran into this tar over ssh technique and it only took me 6m51s to pull all of my projects off of my remote server. ssh [email protected] 'tar -C /tank/git -cpf - .' \ | tar -C "$HOME/git" -xpf - References: [1]: /glossary/git/

[1]2025-07-09 Notes [1] from yesterday I have temporal stuff kind of going with postiz in a windsurf session working on [[thoughts-to-nostr]] Been cleaning up my z" loading="lazy"> 2025-07-10 Notes | Nic Payne 2025-07-09 Notes [2] from yesterday I have temporal stuff kind of going with postiz in a windsurf session working on [[thoughts-to-nostr]] Been cleaning up my z pype.dev big fan of eza and dust, I like these aliases to have some common commands at my fingertips. I often use the tree command and yes it sometimes goes too deep to actually be useful. alias lt='eza -T --level=2' # Tree view, 2 levels deep alias ltt='eza -T --level=3' # Tree view, 3 levels deep alias du1='dust -d 1' # Show only 1 level deep alias du2='dust -d 2' # Show 2 levels deep Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://pype.dev/2025-07-10-notes/ [2]: /2025-07-09-notes/ [3]: /thoughts/

I am a linux user through and through. Desktop, server, vms, containers, everything except my phone is linux. With this I spend a lot of time in the terminal, and have been a long time user of !! to rerun the last command, but with the ability to tack something on at the beginning or end. TIL about fc, which opens the last command in your shell history in your $EDITOR or pass in your editor -e nvim. man fc [1] Rcap of how !! works # [2] !! pronounces bang bang and will run the last command in your history. ls -l !! | wc -l # ls -l | wc -l sudo !! # sudo ls -l | wc -l !!:s/-l/-l \/tmp # sudo ls -l /tmp | wc -l fc enters the chat # [3] Now making complex edits in your shell can be a bit of a chore, so fc moves this work to your $EDITOR. fc This pops open your $EDITOR with the last command in your history. sudo ls -l | wc -l [4] Shell History # [5] fc shows up in shell history, but !! does not, !! gets replaced by the command that it becomes. Up Arrow # [6] yaya yaya, I know you can also up-arrow c-e, but what fun is that, it’s barely a flex. fc just looks big brained and like you really know what you are doing. References: [1]: https://manned.org/fc [2]: #rcap-of...

You can unset multiple environment variables at once. I did not know this was a thing, its something that ended up happening organically on a call and asking someone to run unset. They had never done it before and did not know how it works, but did exactly as I said instead of what I meant. I like this handy shortcut doing it in one line rather than each one individually, I will be using this in the future. You might need this for something like running aws cli commands with localstack [1]. unset AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY AWS_DEFAULT_REGION References: [1]: /running-aws-cli-commands-with-localstack/

GitHub - adrianlopezroche/fdupes: FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories. FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories. - adrianlopezroche/fdupes GitHub · github.com [1] keeping this in my back pocket for now. I just moved a few TB’s of data in the homelab [2] and I am expecting a lot of duplication to show up. Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes [2]: /homelab/ [3]: /thoughts/

Using pbpaste for command substitution keeps sensitive or long URLs out of your shell history. Instead of typing git clone https://github.com/user/repo-with-long-name.git, copy the URL to clipboard and run git clone "$(pbpaste)". This prevents the URL from appearing in ~/.bash_history or ~/.zsh_history. To get pbpaste working on both Xorg and Wayland, add this to your shell config: if [[ $(command -v wl-copy) ]]; then alias pbcopy='wl-copy' pbpaste() { wl-paste; } elif [[ $(command -v xclip) ]]; then alias pbcopy='xclip -selection clipboard' pbpaste() { xclip -selection clipboard -o; } fi The function approach (instead of alias) enables command substitution, while the quotes around $(pbpaste) handle spaces and special characters safely. Now you can use it. git clone "$(pbpaste)" More importantly secrets can stay out of your history. export GITHUB_TOKEN="$(pbpaste)" export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="$(pbpaste)" export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="$(pbpaste)" export DATABASE_URL="$(pbpaste)"

GitHub - bootandy/dust: A more intuitive version of du in rust A more intuitive version of du in rust. Contribute to bootandy/dust development by creating an account on GitHub. GitHub · github.com [1] dust is one of my favorite rust rewrite tools. Its so useful for narrowing down file system bloat and cleaning up some disk space on your nearly full disks. It runs right in your terminal and gives you a nice bar graph on the top directories in use. [2] Note This post is a thought [3]. It’s a short note that I make about someone else’s content online #thoughts References: [1]: https://github.com/bootandy/dust?tab=readme-ov-file [2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/api/file/31b206fd-d508-451e-ba96-860c5d8110d1.webp [3]: /thoughts/