List of randomly useful shell and vim commands
Posted on July 26, 2011 at 9:50 pm
I use these random bash and gvim commands quite often when mucking about. Please feel free to include any commands/shortcuts that you use in the comments.
GVIM
| :%s/<\([^>]*\)>/<\L\1>/gc |
| all <tags> and "quoted attributes" lowercase with confirmation |
| :%s/#[0-9a-f]\{3,6\}/\U&/g |
| uppercase all CSS color codes |
| :% g/foo/m$ |
| move all lines containing 'foo' to EOF |
| :v/foo/d |
| delete lines not containing 'foo' |
| "zyi" |
| copy text inside quote marks to register #z (and then...) |
| di""zP |
| delete text inside quote marks and paste register #z |
| :.,+5s/home/work/g |
| replace all instances of 'home' with 'work' in the next five lines |
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:command! CSS :silent :s/:\ */:\ /g| > :silent :s/\t*//g| > :silent :s/;\ */;\r/g nnoremap <C-f> :CSS |
| transform inline CSS to embed style; bind to Ctrl+F |
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:%s/\(“\|”\|‟\|″\|‶\)/"/g :%s/\(’\|‛\|′\|‵\)/'/g |
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replace single and double smart-quotes with regular variety use [Ctrl+Q, u, ####] to enter unicode values: - single: u201c u201d u201e u201f u2033 u2036 - double: " u2018 u2019 u201a u201b u2032 u2035 |
BASH
| env EDITOR=vi crontab -e |
| open crontab in VI |
| tail /var/log/syslog |
| spit out the last few lines of the system log |
| ctrl+r |
| reverse command history search |
| xset m 12/5 1 |
| set mouse sensitivity and acceleration |
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seek () { grep --color=always -r -n "$*" * | > sed -e 's/[ #TAB#]/ /g' | sed -e 's/:[ ]*/: /g' } |
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quick search for given string in current directory usage: seek mysql_connect (to get #TAB# character, press Ctrl+Q, Tab) |
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list () { ls --format=single-column | egrep -v '\.' } |
| output a list of all files in a directory |
| killall gnome-panel |
| reload gnome panels |
2 comments for this entry:
August 18th, 2011 on 4:36 am
Good list but I have one gripe...
How can you not include ack in a list like this? Not only is it faster than grep, it's way better for programmers.
http://betterthangrep.com/
Also, there is a Vim plugin for it:
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2572
Grep is for files... ack is for code.
August 18th, 2011 on 8:48 am
Installing ack now...
Thanks for the input!