While the history command is useful, it will display all previous commands, by piping | through the grep command we can filter by what we are looking for

history | grep rename

so in this instance, we are looking for the rename command

I needed to rename a set of video files, so used the rename command to just change a portion of the filename in a list of files

The final command I used is:-

rename 's/IMAG00/Trojans07May23/' *.MP4

dpkg-reconfigure console-setup allows you to change how the console looks, this is what you get when login without a gui or use ctrl-alt-fn keys to switch to a different text console.

Again not going through the options, but this is handy to change the font size, typeface etc.

How to change locales in Debian 11. You need to know what options to use here.

How to change the timezone on Debian 11

note use of su - to preserve root path

I have already run apt update for the first time, so the output shown here reflects that, The first time you run apt update after a point release apt updates, so the upgrade pulls in the correct components.

the su command can also be used to login as another user. As illustrated here, use

This is a video to illustrate how to move files between GNU / Linux user accounts on Debian 11, with the BASH shell.

For some really odd reason the default search engine in Firefox is Google, as this is not good for privacy, then this is how to enable the privacy friendly duckduckgo.