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Divine said I should stop talking about AI this week, so I thought I'd bring out a couple linux commands I use daily and have stolen learned from a number of sources.

I guarantee you might not have used all.

Grep is a tool for finding and searching text.

On a day-to-day basis, my most used command is grep -i <search string> for finding certain string, -i makes the search case insensitive, which is great for combing through logs or large text files. Other than that, you can also search through entire directories using:

grep -ri <search string> <directory>

Love or hate it, FFmpeg is a multimedia framework which can be used in a variety of ways for transforming media (audio, video and images) to and from various sources.

It reminds me a lot of this meme

Day to day, I use it largely to convert mkv's to MP4s using commands such as

ffmpeg -i input.mkv -codec copy output.mp4

And sometimes to rip audio from a video:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vn -acodec copy output.aac

And on rare occasions change framerates and resolutions

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -r 30 -s 1920x1080 output.mp4

Pandoc is an open-source software program for file conversion, which is neat as I often write on my personal blog in markdown but sometimes I need to convert to a google doc or vice versa. Pandoc has saved me a lot of time by eliminating the need to upload a document to that sketchy FREE "pdf to doc" converter.

My most used commands include:

Converting md to doc
pandoc input.md -o output.docx

Converting pdf to doc
pandoc input.pdf -o output.docx

While we are on the topic of markdown files, one tool I really love comes from the good folks at Charmbracelet, and it’s called Glow.

Glow helps you render markdown in a nice format within the command line and is often how I preview my blogs while I write in Neovim.

In my homelab, I manage all my containers using Docker, which means I am often darting around the command line when I need to debug or do some quality of life updates.

Over the last couple of months, I have been using lazy Docker to get a quick overview of my containers and retrieve relevant info.

This final one is mac specific, but pbcopy is a macOS utility that allows you to pipe the output of a program directly into your clipboard. For example:

Would paste the copy of your .env file into your clipboard directly, super handy if you want to paste an error log into Google or another command.