If I'm about to run a complex or scary terminal command, I like putting echo in front of it:
$ echo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/...
It's a nice way of having a last check of your command. The command is now in your scrollback, as well as your history.
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I'm increasingly treating terminal sessions as short lived: starting a fresh terminal tab keeps scrollback short and easy to search.
I'd love to have a terminal emulator that allows me to skip over output of specific verbose commands when searching.
I've never seen a good design philosophy on how to sort compiler errors for the best UX.
Do you order by line, or by severity? Do you put the most actionable at the end (because that's most visible when the terminal scrolls) or at the beginning?
Are there any nice cross-platform ways to trigger a notification from a terminal?
I've been using https://pushover.net/ but you need to use a browser and it's noticeably slower than the native options.
(Pushover is great for mobile notifications though.)