My favourite tools using daily at work

• Visual Studio Code
• vim and gedit
• terminal
• Meld to compare files, folders
• Chrome browser with many tabs 😉
  • Simple Websocket Client plugin
• ibus to typing Vietnamese

My favourite commands

• ssh to login to servers, vms
  ssh <user>@<server-name or ip>
ssh -p <port> <user>@<server-name or ip>
  Eg:
  ssh -p 50002 [email protected]
• scp to copy files to remote server
  scp -r <files or folder> <user>@<remote server-name or ip>
scp -r <user>@<remote server-name or ip>:/path/to/files/folder <dest folder at your computer>
• df -h: to list the storage size on different partitions or drivers.
• du -sh *: List the storage size of all folders, files on the current directory.
• ls path/to/folder/ -larth: List the files, folders, with size, permission, owner
• ifconfig: Check the ip address of the current computer
• git status: check the status of the git directory, before making any change, commit or pull
• cp -rL: Copy recursive and large files more effectively.
• gedit <file>: Edit file with GUI text editor.

• docker commands: Will be elaborate more in different post later.
• sudo apt update/install/remove <package>
• (python -m ) pip install <package==version>: Using python -m if you want to install python package with specific python version.

Key combination

• Ctrl + Shift + T: Open the terminal and a new tab
• Ctrl + Shift + Key Up or Down to move between tabs.
• Ctrl + Shift + ‘+’: to increase size of text.
• with vim editor
  • Esc key + :wq: to write and save changes
  • Esc key + :w to write changes
  • Esc key + q! to ignore the changes
  • Esc key + dd: to remove the line
  • Esc key + Insert key: to start editing.