ncdu / ncurses interface to list big directories

ncdu is a little neat program that first scans all the subdirectories of the current one and returns a nice visual navigable list.

d to delete selected folder, ? for help.

zip recursively excluding folder or some files

zip -r result-small.zip ./ -x 'unscoped/*'

-x is a regex of files to exclude. ¹

German

dankbare aufgabe - “rewarding task”

Diff two folders

diff -rq folder1 folder2 diffs contents of files inside the two folders.

Daff diff epsilon

daff diff can accept a -d parameter giving an epsilon, changes of numbers smaller than eps won’t be shown in the diff!

screen

screen -r seems to accept not just the full name of the screen to attach, but even just the first letters!