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Working with Linux ??? Quick Hacks for the Command Line

By : Bogdan Vaida, Petru I»ôfan
Book Image

Working with Linux ??? Quick Hacks for the Command Line

By: Bogdan Vaida, Petru I»ôfan

Overview of this book

Websites, online services, databases, and pretty much every other computer that offers public services runs on Linux. From small servers to clusters, Linux is anywhere and everywhere. With such a broad usage, the demand for Linux specialists is ever growing. For the engineers out there, this means being able to develop, interconnect, and maintain Linux environments. This book will help you increase your terminal productivity by using Terminator, Guake and other tools. It will start by installing Ubuntu and will explore tools and techniques that will help you to achieve more work with less effort. Next, it will then focus on Terminator, the ultimate terminal, and vim, one of the most intelligent console editors. Futhermore, the readers will see how they can increase their command line productivity by using sed, find, tmux, network, autoenv. The readers will also see how they can edit files without leaving the terminal and use the screen space efficiently and copy-paste like a pro. Towards the end, we focus on network settings, Git hacks, and creating portable environments for development and production using Docker. Through this book, you will improve your terminal productivity by seeing how to use different tools.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)

Merging Git conflicts with ease


Now let's look at another improvement that we can bring to git. Most tasks are easy to execute from the command line, but some tasks, such as merging, require a specialist's eye for understanding the different format.

Let's open the feature file from our previous chapter, edit it, add a new line, and save it:

git diff

The git diff command will show us colored text explaining the differences between the git file and the modified file, but some people find this format hard to understand:

Luckily, we can tell git to use external tools when it comes to merge and one external tool that we can use is called Meld. Let's install it using the following:

sudo apt install meld

After this, we can run the following command:

git difftool

It will ask us if we want to launch Meld as an external program for viewing the file. It's also giving us a list of tools that it can use for displaying the difference. Hit y to open Meld:

Now we can easily see the two files side by side and...