I’ve been setting up a new Proxmox server and messing around with VMs, and wanted to know what kind of useful commands I’m missing out on. Bonus points for a little explainer.
Journalctl | grep -C 10 'foo' was useful for me when I needed to troubleshoot some fstab mount fuckery on boot. It pipes Journalctl (boot logs) into grep to find ‘foo’, and prints 10 lines before and after each instance of ‘foo’.
fabien@debian2080ti:~$ history | sed 's/ ..... //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail # with parameters 13 cd Prototypes/ 14 adb disconnect; cd ~/Downloads/Shows/ ; adb connect videoprojector ; 14 cd .. 21 s # alias s='ssh shell -t "screen -raAD"' 36 node . 36 ./todo 42 vi index.js 42 vi todo # which I use as metadata or starting script in ~/Prototypes 44 ls 105 lr # alias lr="ls -lrth" fabien@debian2080ti:~$ history | sed 's/ ..... //' | sed 's/ .*//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail # without parameters 35 rm 36 node 36 ./todo 39 git 39 mv 70 ls 71 adb 96 cd 110 lr 118 vi