[Sat, 31 Dec 2016 18:10:22 -0500] kamaraju kusumanchi <raju.mailinglists@gmail.com> wrote: > Would you like to share some Debian tips that made a significant > impact to your productivity in 2016? Things that you wish you had > known earlier. Well, it is probably not very ``productive'' but still something I would have liked to know earlier: /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99masysma.conf Dpkg::Progress-Fancy "1"; APT::Color "1"; This adds progress bars to APT which is handy to estimate how long the update will run. > 2) Searching command line history using glob patterns > Basically, when reverse searching the command history using ctrl-r, > you can use glob expressions in the search by adding the following > lines to zshrc. [...] > AFAIK only zsh has this functionality. JFTR, in Bash you can do $ set -o vi (I have this in my bashrc) and then [ESC] /pattern [ENTER] to search the history for regular expressions. Just like in VI, the next result is found by pressing `n` :) A useful Debian application I ``found'' in 2016 was `dnsmasq`. I had to test a network-enabled device in an environment where the only other computer I had was my laptop and with `dnsmasq` I could setup a realistic network between them (where the device takes its IP via DHCP). I would have liked to know this earlier because I sometimes had to cope with unreliable DHCP from my router and having an own DHCP server available if the router DHCP fails would have been a time-saver at least. Happy new Year Linux-Fan -- http://masysma.lima-city.de/
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