Tag: cli

fd has sane defaults, parallel walking, and respects .gitignore. find is gnarly but ships everywhere. Here's when each one wins.

Control Linux audio volume and mic boost from the terminal with ALSA's amixer — no GUI needed, no remembering cryptic card numbers.

The docker compose commands you actually use daily — up, down, logs, exec, pull, and the flags that make them way more useful.

Shell globbing breaks inside docker exec because of how args are parsed — here's how to pass wildcards and asterisks correctly.

Move Docker images between hosts without a registry using docker save and docker load — air-gapped deployments made simple.

Learn how lazydocker and dive make Docker manageable from your terminal. TUI dashboards, image layer analysis, CI integration, and optimization tips.

Bash tricks that save keystrokes — history expansion, brace expansion, process substitution, and the shortcuts your fingers will thank you for.

Find your Linux distro version, kernel version, and architecture with uname, lsb_release, /etc/os-release, and hostnamectl.

Fix 'Argument list too long' errors in bash when cp or rsync chokes on thousands of files — xargs and find-based workarounds.

By default bash history is lost across multiple terminal sessions. Fix it with HISTAPPEND and PROMPT_COMMAND so nothing gets overwritten.

Rename files to remove spaces and special characters using bash — rename, tr, and parameter expansion patterns for bulk file cleanup.

Repair and optimize all MySQL databases at once with mysqlcheck — a one-liner that runs on every table without logging into MySQL.