The Art of Linux CLIs

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  • čas přidán 29. 08. 2024

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  • @MultsElMesco
    @MultsElMesco  Před měsícem +50

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    • @ricdeh1701
      @ricdeh1701 Před měsícem

      Considering that you already are in the GNU/Linux FOSS bubble, it would be cool for you to setup a Matrix server so that your fans don't need to use proprietary Discord

    • @TheSensationalMr.Science
      @TheSensationalMr.Science Před měsícem

      derek taylor has compiled a list of these fun cli scripts at his repo called... dwt shell-color-scripts.
      just thought you would like.
      Hope you have a great day & Safe Travels!

  • @chadyways8750
    @chadyways8750 Před měsícem +600

    "Silly programs, with no purpose."
    Me at work: wait a minute

    • @MrSquishles
      @MrSquishles Před měsícem +14

      I have had a real technical use for cowsay at work before 😔

    • @theseangle
      @theseangle Před 24 dny +2

      @@MrSquishles check if `apt` works right? ;D

  • @tuanphvng
    @tuanphvng Před měsícem +962

    this is peak linux brain rot

    • @sanetrayy
      @sanetrayy Před měsícem +6

      HAHAHA

    • @lostzhengli1060
      @lostzhengli1060 Před měsícem +18

      SKIBIDI OHIO ARCH WITH HYPRGYATT?
      im sorry

    • @waralo191
      @waralo191 Před 25 dny +7

      Yeah, but at least it's open source brain rot

    • @zaicol850
      @zaicol850 Před 11 dny +5

      @@waralo191 imagine what closed source brain rot is like

  • @Liriq
    @Liriq Před měsícem +302

    Piping fortune into cowsay was a lightning moment. Life-changing. Especially with the stegosaurus. This is why we love computers.

  • @berkefekeskin9172
    @berkefekeskin9172 Před měsícem +426

    leetcode medium? i cant even solve some easy questions 😔

    • @ashimarulovesyou
      @ashimarulovesyou Před měsícem +41

      LeetCode? I can't even cd from D:// to C://

    • @groff8657
      @groff8657 Před měsícem +30

      There are more easy leetcode questions than grains of sand on earth. And some or them are NOT easy questions, but are designed to gaslight you that they are.

    • @rubyciide5542
      @rubyciide5542 Před měsícem

      ​@@ashimarulovesyouu literally just did it poser clown

    • @arsenypogosov7206
      @arsenypogosov7206 Před měsícem

      ​@@groff8657Example?

    • @billybobjankens12
      @billybobjankens12 Před měsícem +10

      @@ashimarulovesyou Windows? I can't even mouse and keyboard.

  • @bojidarvladev4890
    @bojidarvladev4890 Před měsícem +259

    4:44 This is the official discontinuation the project stopped receiving updates around 4-5 years ago.

    • @monad_tcp
      @monad_tcp Před měsícem +78

      sometimes software is just "done", yeah, I know, heresy

    • @Brahvim
      @Brahvim Před měsícem +21

      @@monad_tcp It was too simple a program to need to be fixed anymore, I guess.

    • @connivingkhajiit
      @connivingkhajiit Před měsícem +15

      fastfetch is the replacement

    • @guigazalu
      @guigazalu Před měsícem

      @@connivingkhajiit nowofetch is. Aka. hyfetch.

    • @electricant55
      @electricant55 Před 27 dny

      @@Brahvim yeah fuck the performance lol

  • @oliearomin
    @oliearomin Před měsícem +125

    I need to add that stegosaurus with a hat saying random stuff to my cli

    • @RaulChis
      @RaulChis Před měsícem

      how does one achieve such, I'm to stupid to find an answer online

    • @Nandainthegrass
      @Nandainthegrass Před měsícem

      @@RaulChis You'll have a ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc file depending on whether you're using a bash or zsh shell. Open this file in a text editor and add the command (example: fortune | cowsay) (I prefer adding it at the end of the file) and then save the file. You can run "source ~/.bashrc" or "source ~/.zshrc" (again depending on what you're using) to see the changes without closing and opening the terminal. Make sure fortune and cowsay are installed though.

    • @oliearomin
      @oliearomin Před měsícem

      @@RaulChis I haven't actually done it but I'll try to update you when I do!

    • @saurabhsingh7234
      @saurabhsingh7234 Před měsícem

      ​@@oliearominPlease let me know as well.

    • @ghjfjhfdgh
      @ghjfjhfdgh Před měsícem

      1. install "fortune" and "cowsay"
      2. add the following to your .profile, .bashrc, .zshrc or whatever your shell parses: "fortune | cowsay -f stegosaurus"
      for extra rainbow action, install "lolcat" and change the command to:
      "fortune | cowsay -f stegosaurus | lolcat"

  • @_Guigui
    @_Guigui Před měsícem +92

    this reminded me i have a project of a command line rhythm game just laying around

    • @Plorpoise
      @Plorpoise Před měsícem +25

      That sounds awesome actually

    • @_Guigui
      @_Guigui Před měsícem

      @@Plorpoise yeah, i kinda gave up on it because i ran out of motivation to make a chart editor that people that aren't me can use (though, you can look it up, it's called "shellrhythm")

    • @dreamdeckup
      @dreamdeckup Před měsícem +8

      please share if it gets to a working state!

    • @_Guigui
      @_Guigui Před měsícem

      @@dreamdeckup it's available! it's called shellrhythm and the client and editor are... functional

    • @silvncr
      @silvncr Před měsícem +4

      i want to see that too

  • @justahumanwithamask4089
    @justahumanwithamask4089 Před měsícem +66

    So you're telling me that I can create a useless cli to get some github stars and then a job

  • @andrwondabeat
    @andrwondabeat Před měsícem +22

    I’m glad you used my rice for
    this video! I love to see the unix ricing community is growing. Great video! ❤

    • @MultsElMesco
      @MultsElMesco  Před měsícem +6

      Thank you! I loved your rice, it was pretty good :))

  • @DavidCastillaGil
    @DavidCastillaGil Před 16 hodinami +1

    Couple years ago, I developed some scripts to automate deployment of applications for an aeronautic company. It took so long that I started showing process logs, then status summary, then emulating a progress bar... at the end I had an airplane flying on the console. If the deployment worked without errors it landed, otherwise it would crash. The amount of scripting knowledge I gained from the customization was probably more than the deployment itself. Totally worth the effort. Note for my company, both the scripts and my customization were developed outside working hours, so shh.

  • @pegeeeeee
    @pegeeeeee Před měsícem +44

    2:00 BOCCHI THE ROCK MENTIONED

    • @pegeeeeee
      @pegeeeeee Před měsícem +14

      4:01 AGAIN OMG

    • @ArseneKichi
      @ArseneKichi Před měsícem +1

      bocchi sweep is real

    • @pegeeeeee
      @pegeeeeee Před měsícem +1

      @@ArseneKichi REALLL🙏🙏🙏🙏

  • @FrogsRghey
    @FrogsRghey Před 15 dny +4

    3:17 is pure gold

  • @jorionedwards
    @jorionedwards Před měsícem +87

    I don't have an anime girl as my wallpaper.
    I have *eight* anime girls as my wallpaper.

    • @connivingkhajiit
      @connivingkhajiit Před měsícem +7

      I dont have an anime girl as my wallpaper.
      I have an anime girl as my mousepad.

    • @cirkulx
      @cirkulx Před měsícem +1

      i have the moon…

    • @Krepppa253ButFake
      @Krepppa253ButFake Před 28 dny +1

      @@connivingkhajiit You sure it‘s *as* your mousepad and not a mousepad with it printed on…?

    • @dinhero21
      @dinhero21 Před 6 dny

      @@Krepppa253ButFake yes

  • @kokayola
    @kokayola Před měsícem +20

    Now i need to add hitoribocchi in any possible thing i can modify in my linux distro

  • @leyvirose875
    @leyvirose875 Před měsícem +17

    Thought this might be relevant:
    There used to be a program that you could run on IBM mainframes in the late 60's that would print ASCII (or whatever text-encoding they used, I don't think it was ASCII) art image of a lady in her "birthday suite". I forget what it was called, but I saw a CZcams video of it being demoed at a computer museum, as part of a multi-video series.

    • @1KiloDepartment
      @1KiloDepartment Před měsícem +3

      You are probably thinking of Edith!

    • @leyvirose875
      @leyvirose875 Před měsícem +1

      Yes, that's the one!

    • @cilency
      @cilency Před měsícem +2

      czcams.com/video/LtlrITxB5qg/video.html
      Found a video of the program in question

  • @marxy37dev
    @marxy37dev Před měsícem +21

    the pipe sfx is what got me xD (also it's the only thing my smol brain understood of this video)

  • @baranjan6969
    @baranjan6969 Před měsícem +12

    awk is a universal stereoids for every single cli program out there.

  • @Jupiter__001_
    @Jupiter__001_ Před měsícem +10

    fastfetch is good if you want it to run every time you open your terminal. It's written in C so it's fast, hence the name.

    • @cirkulx
      @cirkulx Před měsícem

      idk fastfetch looks kinda weird on default config and im really stupid (so i made my own fetch program that on a good system runs in about 200μs)

  • @ros9764
    @ros9764 Před dnem

    The more i delve into linux the more i find the ricing community very funny. Im one of those people that say they've changed the look of their terminal and all that means is switching the font color to orange and making the window more transparent. I've tried to change the overall look of my desktop by following tutorials and installing programs but after a while i go back to the default setting because it already looks good enough for me (yes, that includes xfce)

  • @jjhe3899
    @jjhe3899 Před měsícem +3

    wait, you can have the pipes screensaver in a CLI? Definitely a must-have!

  • @DavidLee-jd5ot
    @DavidLee-jd5ot Před měsícem +17

    Instead of neofetch, cmatrix and cava Use fastfetch, unimatrix and glava

  • @CocoTheMii
    @CocoTheMii Před 16 dny +1

    4:39 "a few weeks ago" apparently equates to three months

  • @ukyotachibana638
    @ukyotachibana638 Před měsícem +2

    so I had to sudo apt install sl
    and then I had to use sl 🤣
    its really funny spending too much time customizing terminal with weird stuff
    lmao the pipe is not for I guess 🤣I would watch the birds flying rather than pipes
    great vid!!! love the editing 🔥

  • @hamzabenslimane1074
    @hamzabenslimane1074 Před 4 hodinami

    Man your video is a pure blessing

  • @worldadmin9811
    @worldadmin9811 Před 10 dny

    made it to the end, congrats on 50k!

  • @bluezhift
    @bluezhift Před měsícem

    My love for the CLI grows! Let's GO!!!

  • @blank-mq8ef
    @blank-mq8ef Před měsícem +1

    fortune into cowsay into lolcat is the best thing to have each time you open your terminal

  • @trevorthedude
    @trevorthedude Před měsícem

    The way you introduced piping has got to be used in universities. I really like the way you introduce new topics, and I think professors would learn a lot from your segues

  • @puleroxd4116
    @puleroxd4116 Před měsícem +2

    hey what are you using for the as a in terminal file browser/file editor in 7:30 it looks very much like something i want to use but dont have...

    • @HicsterEnthusiast
      @HicsterEnthusiast Před dnem

      ranger, there's nnn too, harder to setup but at the same time a lot more customizable, ranger is nice and just works out of the box

  • @thatcipher
    @thatcipher Před měsícem +1

    I learned to appreciate CLI tools so much
    Idk as a frontend developer I shouldn't like the terminal as much as I do lmao

  • @TreeLuvBurdpu
    @TreeLuvBurdpu Před měsícem +7

    Fortune cookies are already shitty, and yet people read them. "Fortune" was not useless. It was an improvement on the actual fotune cookie.

    • @attustheant
      @attustheant Před měsícem +1

      You aren''t eating your terminals, are you?

    • @TreeLuvBurdpu
      @TreeLuvBurdpu Před měsícem +1

      @@attustheant I am ingesting them.

  • @zxuiji
    @zxuiji Před měsícem +1

    8:03...I feel called out XD

  • @bilbobagend8155
    @bilbobagend8155 Před měsícem +3

    0:53
    Just made me realize that stock image sites might be irrelevant now. At least crappy ones. Why bother paying for slop when you can generate slop at the pace of your own patience?

  • @cringemaki
    @cringemaki Před měsícem +1

    "Or your next not project at all because you're never going to acomplish anything [...]"
    Too personal and real. I want to learn to code and make this auto clicker for a game but I'm too lazy. Damn.

  • @themirrazz
    @themirrazz Před měsícem +1

    Can confirm that 50% of the reason I clicked was Anya-chan doing her waku waku face in the thumbnail

  • @um8078
    @um8078 Před měsícem +1

    After switching to Linux for a month and using a Windows machine this morning I can confidently declare I've lost all ability to use file manager and now is only capable of using cd and zoxide

  • @charliepettigrew2818
    @charliepettigrew2818 Před měsícem +5

    does anyone know how ppl get text to display at certain places on the screen? the only way i know is print() (along with other languages equivalents), which doesn't let you specify where the text is displayed.

  • @jollux8035
    @jollux8035 Před měsícem

    in my programming 1 course (python) we did the cowsay CLI project as a lab in our class. it was fun, the cow images were given (excluding the sheep), and also a dragon and tiger. from what i remember the cows name was heifer, but nevertheless the project was rly fun and was my first intro to CLI.

  • @elfofrit
    @elfofrit Před dnem +1

    >Linux
    >Kamen Rider
    >Korone
    >Ai wa Boomerang
    You gained a new sub
    Let's be friends 🤝

  • @OpyrusDev
    @OpyrusDev Před 18 dny

    since the past hour every video want me to go from Zorin Os to Arch but i heard about that installation difficulty (but the result is so beautiful 😭😭)

  • @Vintagestep
    @Vintagestep Před 22 dny

    idk where I saw a dude loosing his head after weeks of doing complex programming just to make a 3D moving donut with ascii in the CLI, this video reminded me of that lmao

  • @saekokazzu
    @saekokazzu Před měsícem

    Thanks for that screen shot bind

  • @reinadorojo
    @reinadorojo Před 20 dny

    un chileno al que se le entiende. amo el tipo de humor de este canal, es raro y dificil de explicar pero me gusta y me quedo hipnótico con estos videos

  • @eng3d
    @eng3d Před měsícem +1

    Not only in Linux but also in Windows.
    BTW, I found that after the 2022 update of Windows 10, cmd.exe works really well, it renders colors correctly (no mumbo-magic) and it works acceptable.
    When CLI shines? maintenance/developer/admin tools

    • @MapleBR
      @MapleBR Před 25 dny

      since i found out the windows terminal app and installed powershell 7 it's been funny to work with windows. I spent a few days ricing it, most of time at work im connecting via ssh to linux servers and doing stuff directly on the command line.

  • @bionicseaserpent
    @bionicseaserpent Před měsícem +2

    me using the Default KDE 6 Manjaro wallpaper:

  • @chloemccarthy2297
    @chloemccarthy2297 Před 18 dny

    - Have dual, maybe more, monitors side by side.
    - Crank that resolution as much as possible.
    - Long, short terminal window spanning all monitors.
    - $ sl
    - Train is now a useless and frustratingly long loading bar.
    - Linux life.

  • @aeebeecee3737
    @aeebeecee3737 Před měsícem +1

    2:11 a noteworthy mention about cowsay alike program is: ponysay -- a rewritten implementation for Bronies

  • @arjix8738
    @arjix8738 Před měsícem +1

    the few times I misstyped ls as sl, it did actually list the directory contents, so I thought it was an alias for ls

    • @formbi
      @formbi Před měsícem

      some distros include aliases for stuff

  • @Dragoonmaster999
    @Dragoonmaster999 Před měsícem +3

    To this day, we still don't know what file was the freaky sheeps

  • @Playerk125
    @Playerk125 Před 17 dny

    im not gonna lie, my wall paper is a animadet grathink of a 80´s style sunset calld "Neon Sunset"

  • @croakclyde1654
    @croakclyde1654 Před 12 dny

    new vid idea: "starting out your linux journey"

  • @jeffreyliu2289
    @jeffreyliu2289 Před 21 dnem

    Peak music choice, the Cyber Grind doesn't show up much as bgm

  • @Maxjoker98
    @Maxjoker98 Před 26 dny +1

    3:30 Calling it a train is offensive. It's a steam locomotive(sl).

  • @DarkoMesarosSubotica
    @DarkoMesarosSubotica Před 24 dny

    Hey I saw a screenshot from my blog at 1:48 🥳

  • @KrazyKaiser
    @KrazyKaiser Před měsícem +2

    Holy shit I didn't know that's what piping did, I thought it was just way to input multiple commands at the same time 💀💀💀 This is what you get when you set up a linux server by just copy pasting things you find online...

  • @Susul-lj2wm
    @Susul-lj2wm Před měsícem

    ayy, I am using tide aswell, great terminal theme

  • @qexat
    @qexat Před měsícem

    6:44 jokes on you I have Dreamcatcher Gahyeon as my wallpaper

  • @coinbongo4694
    @coinbongo4694 Před měsícem +2

    Hyprland spotted. High five ✋

  • @pyrolyzed4314
    @pyrolyzed4314 Před měsícem +1

    What font does your terminal use? My pursuit of a good font is never ending.

  • @arnabbiswasalsodeep
    @arnabbiswasalsodeep Před měsícem

    I have an alias "moo" which is for "fortune" output in "cowsays" then makes it colourful (i forgot using what & it's 2am)

  • @user-td9sj4pb3d
    @user-td9sj4pb3d Před měsícem

    I just loved this!!! Can you suggest more cli tools!

  • @Fernando-du5uj
    @Fernando-du5uj Před měsícem

    Your videos are funny asf man. Never stop it!

  • @Munenushi
    @Munenushi Před 19 dny

    just like old game cracks that had graphical interfaces and music and menus and stuff!
    i mean so I've heard

  • @arsxhy
    @arsxhy Před měsícem

    6:16 "I need water"
    6:19 "gulps*"

  • @Whit3_Tee_Poison
    @Whit3_Tee_Poison Před 24 dny

    6:44 geee what gave it away

  • @chaitanya8126
    @chaitanya8126 Před měsícem +1

    holy shit , brilliant sponsorship

  • @givowo
    @givowo Před měsícem +1

    I love steam locomotive

  • @backprints
    @backprints Před měsícem

    i re-installed bblean because of this video thank u

  • @vladislavkaras491
    @vladislavkaras491 Před 2 dny

    Well yeah... That's cool! :D

  • @yviskos
    @yviskos Před měsícem

    i use git bash on windows (uses a lot of linux based things as it is pretty much wsl) and i love using CLIs for as much as i can

  • @amberisvibin
    @amberisvibin Před 22 dny

    i just had the strangest glitch where this entire video was replaved with a soundless cat video

  • @diegoestrada35
    @diegoestrada35 Před měsícem

    Based for using a Urusei Yatsura song as your outro

  • @arx9781
    @arx9781 Před měsícem

    you can always pipe cowsay with lolcat to have a gradient stegosaurus

  • @toasterenthusiast6188
    @toasterenthusiast6188 Před měsícem

    Neofetch has ceased all new contributions as of this year so I would have recommended something a bit more modern like fastfetch in the video instead of leading people to download dead software.

  • @RealVCT
    @RealVCT Před měsícem +1

    6:42 my wallpaper has pandemonica from helltaker, does that count?

  • @amirroohi4566
    @amirroohi4566 Před měsícem +10

    had to double check, yes my wallpaper is anime, but its just a minimalist faceless Yu Gi, so yeah

    • @awful999
      @awful999 Před měsícem

      omg my wallpaper is marik

  • @KernelPanic0
    @KernelPanic0 Před měsícem

    I like silly novelty programs and all, but I was hoping this video would challenge me in my non-tiling KDE-using wobbly-window-addict ways. Maybe I like the convenience of setting up a printer or changing my mouse acceleration or whatever with the settings program, without having to look it up. The only thing that sucks about my love for GUI tools is, a lot of them *suck* in terms of performance. They all either use a stupid JavaScript engine for a lot of simple UI tasks, or they cache the wrong things and don't cache the right things, or whatever, and all of them are still not configurable enough.
    People talk a lot about how tiling window managers and command-line tools are more "efficient", but like, I can touch-type at a speed I'm fine with without learning the "proper" way (with one's hands resting on the home row and everything), and without switching to a different layout from QWERTY (which I totally could do with my keyboard). And similarly, I can navigate and manage windows just fine on KDE. I feel like I spend a lot more time thinking about the next thing I'm gonna do between programs I'm running rather than navigating between them.
    What I do use command-line tools a lot for though is bulk operations, especially with tools that don't really have a good GUI replacement, like FFmpeg, ImageMagick, and some other specialized things.
    It makes me want to write my own replacements for a lot of KDE Plasma components, but I have other things I'd like to write replacements for before that (like a good web browser that actively fights against/asks user permission for shit like Web Workers, WebRTC, the Idle Detection API, site local storage, those stupid pages that hide or replace your scrollbar and do their own shitty "smooth" scroll, etc.).

  • @JWJ212
    @JWJ212 Před měsícem

    Never got "why would I want to type when I could just click buttons" I mean... why would I want to take my hands off my keyboard? That just slows everything down from hand movement time. I could have already finished typing a prompt in the time it takes to move my hand to the mouse, click a gui, and bring it back to my keyboard.

  • @CentreMetre
    @CentreMetre Před 24 dny

    My wall paper is anime, but its of Tanaka-kun saying "I dont need new developments in my life" as a reminder

  • @cewla3348
    @cewla3348 Před měsícem

    figlet -f banner a
    why didnt i just do this when i made 8x8 pixel art of all letters, uppercase letters, numbers, and symbols with hashes

  • @nuclearnyanboi
    @nuclearnyanboi Před měsícem

    subbed
    this is my first time watching your channel

  • @0xPRIMEgs
    @0xPRIMEgs Před měsícem

    Linux CLI is God's chosen PC interface.

  • @DanielCWERTY
    @DanielCWERTY Před měsícem

    This dude spit our Secret *noob coders*

  • @effy_922
    @effy_922 Před měsícem

    I remember spending a week ricing up my new Linux Distro
    ...only to never use cava/pipes/neofetch/alacritty ever again since they took too much screen space
    10/10 would do again

  • @FiveHundredHungryGhosts
    @FiveHundredHungryGhosts Před měsícem

    @0:50 "Stupid little programs with little to no application"
    Oh nothing much, just a compiler.

  • @milymilo
    @milymilo Před 15 dny +1

    cant believe donut.c was never mentioned 😔

  • @drominitoketchup
    @drominitoketchup Před 16 dny

    aah - searching at the "wrong unixporn" was a bad experience..

  • @ndulucalvassman2294
    @ndulucalvassman2294 Před měsícem

    does someone ever listed all the cool configuration things like exposed in this video somewhere on github or something like that ? i went full on my afternoon customizing my terminal after this video and i want MORE, MOOOOOOOREE

    • @MultsElMesco
      @MultsElMesco  Před 29 dny

      Hello, all my dotfiles are here github.com/IonelPopJara/dotfiles if you want to check it out. It has changed a bit since the video but the neofetch theme is still there alongisde other stuff :)

  • @user-et8vk2te6c
    @user-et8vk2te6c Před dnem

    This made my day xD

  • @andyman301
    @andyman301 Před měsícem

    6:42 Nah, it's the Windows XP default wallpaper

  • @HiLordReilo
    @HiLordReilo Před měsícem

    is it just me or the thumbnail of this video changes every time I get it in my recommendations??

  • @Sliden
    @Sliden Před 5 dny

    Mushishi mentioned

  • @mariobot128
    @mariobot128 Před měsícem

    3:20 why is this exactly me xD

  • @MiScusi69
    @MiScusi69 Před měsícem

    Beautiful

  • @DroidEnaamo
    @DroidEnaamo Před 27 dny

    Hey man, Which tool did you use for editing this video?

    • @MultsElMesco
      @MultsElMesco  Před 27 dny +1

      Hello! Premiere pro + after effects + some photoshop. I've been using those 3 for many years now hahah

  • @mumblety
    @mumblety Před měsícem

    Man. I really should switch to linux.

  • @yxnilI
    @yxnilI Před měsícem

    Very cool video!

  • @hhectorlector
    @hhectorlector Před 8 dny

    is that the veiWow emote in the thumbnail or no

  • @justanotherguy6345
    @justanotherguy6345 Před měsícem

    you do not understand how much I *need* to know what the font in the thumbnail is