PenguinCoder

A couple I use (concept of not exact), that I haven’t seen in the thread yet:

Using grep as diff: grep -Fxnvf orig.file copy.file

Using xargs -

xargs reads items from the standard input, delimited by blanks (which can be protected with double or single quotes or a backslash) or newlines, and executes the command (default is /bin/echo) one or more times with any initial-arguments followed by items read from standard input.

EG: $ find ~/Pictures -name "*.png" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 tar -cvzf images.tar.gz

Except, it was little Bobby tables.

Conventions I have are:

• Downloads folder is ephemeral, don’t store/keep things in there I might want
• ~/scripts - personal scripts and one offs
• ~/Documents/projects/[subdir] - any tech project I may be working on, gets homed here
• /tmp - always mount it noexec

I also start off allocating ~ 50GB to / (root) volumegroup. Wine and proton have been taking up nearly the full space though, may need to expand it on my desktop soon.