Some of my favorite bash commands - 2025

find ./ -name “"	This is a useful command for searching through our file system.
sed -i ‘s/old-text/new-text/g’ filename.txt	Replace a string every time its found in a file name
Touch filename.txt	Create the file filename.txt
*ls .txt \| xargs cat**	*list (ls) all files that end with .txt and pipe them in to the cat command with xargs to print out their content**
git diff –name-only \| xargs -r code {}	Nice command to pipe the file names in a git diff into code to automatically open files with differences for editing
tree	Nice installable command to list out file structures
> >	Redirects the standard output to a file, but appends to the end of the file instead of overwriting it.
>	Redirects the standard output (stdout) of a command to a file, overwriting the file’s contents (or creating it if it doesn’t exist).
\|	Sends the standard output of the command on the left as the standard input (stdin) to the command on the right. This chains commands together.
Those last three were for me to remember
grep “pattern1” filename \| grep -v “pattern2”	Search for pattern1 in files then exclude lines with pattern2 from the output.

I also recommend the following article for some more advanced git commands: 10 Advanced Git Commands

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