My terminal journey, part 01. Becoming terminal friendly.

series: Apt Spelunking.

tags: terminal, apt-get, apt-cache, .bashrc

Book TLCL

The Linux Command Line: http://www.linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

My .bashrc alias

# ls aliases

alias la='ls -Alh --group-directories-first'

alias lr='ls -lh --group-directories-first --recursive'

alias lar='ls -Alh --group-directories-first --recursive'

# safety first ;)

alias rmi='rm --interactive --verbose'

alias mvi='mv --interactive --verbose'

alias cpi='cp --interactive --verbose'

# cd reverse dir

alias ..='cd ..'

alias .2='cd ../..'

alias .3='cd ../../..'

alias .4='cd ../../../..'

alias .5='cd ../../../../..'

# cd dir

alias cd.d='cd ~/Documents/.dump'

# shutdown | reboot

alias ssn='sudo shutdown -P now'

alias sr='sudo reboot'

# Misc

alias nrpt='echo -e "nn---nnNew Reportnn---nn"'

My dump script

#!/bin/bash

dump=dump$(date +%m-%d-%Y).txt

pdat=$(date +%a_%b_%d_%Y_%T)

touch $dump;

echo -e "$pdat" > $dump; echo -e "nnThis file is used to store terminal output for later use; now get out!nn" >> $dump;

echo -e "nnDump file $dump is ready for use (created on $(date +%m-%d-%Y_%T)).nn"

My Upgrade script

#!/bin/bash

dp=dump$(date +%m-%d-%Y).txt

date | tee -a ./$dp; echo -e "n" | tee -a ./$dp;

sudo apt-get update | tee -a ./$dp; echo -e "n" | tee -a ./$dp;

echo -e "System Update Completed." | tee -a ./$dp; echo -e "n" | tee -a ./$dp;

sudo apt-get upgrade --yes | tee -a ./$dp; echo -e "n" | tee -a ./$dp;

echo -e "System Upgrade Completed." | tee -a ./$dp; echo -e "n" | tee -a ./$dp;

Commands

the upgrade example sudo apt-get update | tee -a ~/Documents/.dump/dump05-05-2021.txt; nrpt >> ./dump05-05-2021.txt;

the nmap example (plus the other command I couldn't remember while recording) apt-cache search nmap >> ./dump05-05-2021.txt; nrpt >> ./dump05-05-2021.txt; apt-cache showpkg nmap

the depends example apt-cache depends nmap >> ./dump05-05-2021.txt;

the download example sudo apt-get download dict dictd dict-wn dict-gcide artha

vim sudo apt-get vim; vimtutor

Terminal examples ~= home folder, CTRL + R= command search , CTRL + L= clear terminal, xdg-open= open files with default app.

Searching with grep example ls -lhAr ~ | grep -i bash >> ./dump05-05-2021.txt

the dump05-05-2021.txt file

Wed_May_05_2021_12:22:43

This file is used to store terminal output for later use; now get out!

Hit:1 http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb stable InRelease

Ign:2 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/linuxmint/packages ulyana InRelease

Get:3 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security InRelease [109 kB]

Hit:4 http://mirror.cs.jmu.edu/pub/linuxmint/packages ulyana Release

Hit:5 http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/linux/ubuntu focal InRelease

Hit:6 http://mirror.cogentco.com/pub/linux/ubuntu focal-updates InRelease

Hit:7 http://