notes/updates.txt
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Use this file as a post-it for packages to install on laptop/desktop.
add notation about awk as
Select everything but the second field:
awk '!($2="")'
add notation about tr (translate command):
replace every newline with a single space: tr '\n' ' '
add notation about using find to list only files in current directory and NOT subdirectory:
find $dir -maxdepth 1 -type f
add notation about using pick to parse through output, and pipe that using xargs to another command:
example:
ls | pick | xargs bat # will give you a choice of the files from ls, pick displays a menu to "pick" the file, which then is parsed to xargs bat (invokes bat on choice from ls | pick)
Install fim (allows viewing of images in tty environment)
Also install ctags for better traversing in our C programs.
paru fim
doas pacman -S ctags
Install athena-jot
paru athena-jot (generates random data)