What's the first command you type every day? šŸ–„ļø

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We all have commands we type almost automatically every day.

So Iā€™m curious:

Whatā€™s the first command you type when you start using your PC each day?

Mine changes depending on what Iā€™m working on, but I definitely have a few commands I run out of habit. :joy:

Whatā€™s yours?

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I almost never use commands. I used to use apt-get update and upgrade but now I just use the GUI software updater.

The one command I find essential is ā€˜sudo dpkg --configure -aā€™ if you have a problem downloading and installing software like a power failure while upgrading or dependency problems. I keep a cheat sheet for that and anything else I might need.

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Thatā€™s actually a good one. :joy:

I also use GUI tools for a lot of things, especially when thereā€™s no reason to open a terminal.

And ā€œsudo dpkg --configure -aā€ is definitely one of those commands worth remembering when an interrupted update leaves things in a weird state.

A cheat sheet is honestly a great idea too. There are always a few commands you forget until the exact moment you need them.

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sudo apt update
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Like me :+1:
But sometimes I use ffmpeg or top

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Biggest reasons I like a cheat sheet is I am a poor typist, bad at spelling and have a poor memory.

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That daily command was ssh at work. At home I can issue no terminal command for weeks.

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The first command I execute is a UpArrowEnter which usually just runs the following

 snap refresh;apt update; apt autoremove ; apt autoclean ; apt full-upgrade ; fastfetch

so Iā€™m just updating packages.

Though you may not notice it, there are spaces in front of the command, as with my current profile that means the command doesnā€™t get stored in my .bash_history and so itā€™s less cluttered.

There also isnā€™t any -y, so I can actually read the output (esp. given Iā€™m using apt full-upgrade) & accept it only if Iā€™m happy.

The apt autoremove I think is helpful, as if Iā€™ve laid a ā€˜mineā€™ for myself (through stupid prior apt remove), Iā€™d rather notice it ā€˜soonerā€™ than ā€˜laterā€™, as there is more chance Iā€™ll remember what I did that caused it..

The apt autoclean is out of habit as Iā€™ve had disk space issues somewhat often. I peruse the output (apt autoremove; apt autoclean) before I accept the full-upgrade command too.

The fastfetch just gives me a reminder of how long the machine has been up (I reboot it every ~14 days; switching to dual boot install first & updating it), and it gives my $HOSTNAME & some machine detail (to ensure Iā€™m on the correct box at a minimum; that Iā€™m not ssh'd into another box OR my keyboard/mouse/screens arenā€™t controlling another box (KVM switches here).

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What about >uptime<
They are same thing

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Iā€™m not sure about the first, but here are my most used on this new system:

cd        29
apt       25
vi        13
dpkg       8
btop       7

So I think apt is probably the winner for this question.

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for me first command itā€™s cd
zoxide nnn coreutils() ffmpeg sha*sum 7z age gpg git
then other infinite amount of clis

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I also donā€™t really have one fixed command I use at the start of my day. Sometimes itā€™s going into a directory, sometimes itā€™s activating a conda environmentā€¦

However, usually, at the end of the day, before I shut down my computer I run update-system, which is an alias for sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt autoremove && flatpak update.

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No one does it the old fashioned way with startx?

(I had to look that up. I think I got it right? I knew it at one time but forgot it)

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This is an intriguing question. And like some it depends on what work or problem I am trying to solve. So with that said the most popular for me to start with are ping, drill, and ssh.

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Yes uptime does..

.. but I ssh into other boxes, and Iā€™ve made mistakes before in not noticing $PS1; thus I also scan Host [field], OS & even the Display lines (eg. current box lists 5; HDMI-(1-3) & DVI-I-(1-2), and whilst this box does share 3 of those screens with other boxes, it doesnā€™t share all 5 & that count is the easiest ā€˜tellā€™ for this box.. ie. fastfetch (or neofetch in older releases) gives a load of detail that allows me to confirm (pretty well) which box Iā€™m actually typing commands into.

Iā€™m actually running fastfetch (or neofetch) before I do most changes (significant or unique changes to confirm box), but not just after a box has been turned on as Iā€™d expect I know which box I just turned on or woke. I like how it presents its data; but thatā€™s mostly (I think) as I can usually detect the box, even if Iā€™m not wearing my glasses (logo shows Ubuntu, Debian etc, number of display lines etc).

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For me, the idea of a ā€œfirstā€ command I use every day doesnā€™t really fit my habits, because I am not in ā€œwork lifeā€ anymore.

When I was, I did have a canned routine which would

  • verify ā€œupā€ status of a list of ā€œcompute serversā€ for CAD/CAM export

  • verify available disk space of the compute transient files

  • verify that the processes for feeding files to remote DBs and file cashe storage were functional and reporting no glitches

  • generate the statistical chart of times for phases of compute process, including ā€œper item wait in queueā€; ā€œitems in wait queueā€; total MB of data files retrieved for the compute phase; RAM and VM status at regular intervals; numbers of and MB of, data files generated from compute jobs; average total time for compute jobs for different classes of items (Pro/ENG PROP, Pro/Eng PEAM, Catia, Unicad, Versacad) for remote replication. Those charts were also published for viewing by the entire internal engineering/manufacturing organization at Nortel, so that they would get a ā€œpulseā€ of our compute operations and develop a sense of when to expect their jobs to be completed.

So, in home life, I have two personalities, regular user and root, and my command usage ā€œprofileā€ is as follows:

For regular user ā€¦

   2273 ls
    881 sync
    752 gvim
    733 cd
    553 .
    237 vi
    221 mv
    211 rm
    176 more
    169 grep
    152 man
    131 chmod
    122 cp
    113 sudo
     92 find
     77 clear

As root user ā€¦

   7007 ls
   3697 sync
   3669 cd
   2619 gvim
   1754 .
   1543 man
    861 Admin.sh
    770 more
    625 grep
    546 cp
    536 myDf.sh
    504 mv
    455 rm
    382 cat
    375 find
    362 ./UTIL__SearchIndexes.sh
    349 USER__Find_IndexedFiles.sh
    289 ps
    272 chmod
    262 inxi
    232 diff
    202 history
    199 which
    193 systemctl
    146 echo
    145 HW_Admin__Power_SetFreqCPU.sh
    141 lsblk
    134 apt-get
    125 swapon
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I run a lot of commands, and I donā€™t care if my command aliases are familiar to anyone else or not because they are my aliases, but hereā€™s mine, and then Iā€™ll explain it:
u;d;re

alias u=ā€˜sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade;
sudo update-grub;sudo apt-get autoremoveā€™ # I use this to upgrade my system and update my boot loader, then autoremove any software no longer needed.

alias d=ā€˜doom sync; doom upgradeā€™ # This updates my Doom Emacs configuration.

alias re=ā€˜restartEmacsā€™ # I have a function in my .bashrc called restartEmacs; the purpose is to start, stop, or restart my Emacs server; in this case, Iā€™m restarting it.

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Usually ruptime, to check on the health and uptime of all my machines.

Note - I wrote my own version of ruptime, more secure and able to see machines outside the local lan

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When I was using Fedora, the first command I used was topgrade to look for updates and install them ā€¦ :rofl:

Now Iā€™m using EndeavourOS again, and there is no command I use. After booting into EndeavourOS, I start Arch-Update app to update my system. :wink:

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