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Tips on the Fish Shell

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips & Traps

  1. Configuration files of the fish shell are located at ~/.config/fish.

Installation & Configuration

icon makes it easy to install and configure the fish shell.

icon fish -ic

Key Bindings …

Extracting Data from PDF Files

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Sometimes, a PDF file is corrupted or encrypted making it hard to extract data from it directly. In this case, you can convert a PDF page to an image first and …

The ripgrep Command Is a Better Alternative to the find Command

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Installation on Debian/Ubuntu Based Linux Distributions

wajig install ripgrep

Installation on macOS

brew install ripgrep

List Files

There are 2 ways to list files using ripgrep. The first way is file name (globbing pattern) based and the second way is file content (regex pattern) based.