This is equivalent to -rlptgoD. It is a quick way of saying you want recursion and want to preserve almost everything.
-z –compress
With this option, rsync compresses the file data as it is sent to the destination machine, which reduces the amount of data being transmitted
-P
The -P option is equivalent to –partial –progress. Its purpose is to make it much easier to specify these two options for a long transfer that may be interrupted.
–delete
This tells rsync to delete extraneous files from the receiving side (ones that aren’t on the sending side)
–exclude
exclude files matching PATTERN
-b –backup-dir
With this option preexisting destination files are renamed with a ~ extension as each file is transferred. You can control where the backup file goes and what (if any) suffix gets appended using the –backup-dir and –suffix options.
But somehow it always created the Backup folder recursively again inside the Backup folder. So the first run created the /Backup folder, after the second run I’ve got /Backup/Backup, after the third run /Backup/Backup/Backup and so on..
The solution was to exclude the Backup directory using the --exclude command.
“If we are storing backups in the destination folder, or in a directory inside of the destination folder, the --delete parameter is going to delete old backups, as they are not in the source folder. Or attempt to as in the following situation:
Say, we already have a folder called backup inside of the destination directory, and we use rsync again, using --backup-dir=backup one more time. As rsync is going to attempt to delete every file and folder that is not in the source directory, it would backup the backup folder, which would create a backup folder inside our already existing backup folder, and then it would attempt to delete the backup folder and fail because it is using it to backup files.”
“Pywal is a tool that generates a color palette from the dominant colors in an image. It then applies the colors system-wide and on-the-fly in all of your favorite programs.”
I’m using Variety to change my wallpaper every day automatically. To always get the right colors in my terminal I added some lines in my .zshrc that will always grab the current wallpaper and pass it to PyWal. I’m sure a bash pro would do this in just one line… 🙂
sudo micro /etc/default/grub
#Setze von 0 auf 5
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
sudo update-grub
Create new shortcut for the “System Monitor”
Copying my dotfiles over. First the .aliases
alias ll='ls -Al --color=auto --block-size=MB --group-directories-first'
alias ls='ls -l --color=auto --block-size=MB --group-directories-first'
alias cp='cp -vRi'
alias rm='rm -vRi'
alias mv='mv -vi'
alias ln='ln -v'
alias mkdir='mkdir -pv' # Creates parent directories if needed
alias chown='chown -v'
alias chmod='chmod -v'
alias rmdir='rmdir -v'
alias ps='ps -f'
#alias tar='tar -xvf' #made some problems
alias df='df -Th'
alias lsd='lsd -Al --group-dirs first'
alias jobs='jobs -lr'
alias sudo='sudo ' #Allows for aliases to work with sudo.
alias pls='sudo $(history -p !!)'
alias wget='wget -qc --show-progress' #Download with WGet with pretty and useful features.
alias grep='grep -sI --color=auto' #Colorful (auto) 'grep' output.
alias psf='ps -faxc -U $UID -o pid,uid,gid,pcpu,pmem,stat,comm' #Less excessive, current-user-focused ps alternative.
alias klog="sudo dmesg -t -L=never -l emerg,alert,crit,err,warn --human --nopager" #Potentially useful option for viewing the kernel log.
alias lsblk='lsblk -o name,label,fstype,size,type,uuid'
alias ping='ping -c 5' # Stop after sending 5 pings
# Docker
alias dpsa='docker ps -a --format "table{{.ID}}\t{{.Names}}\t{{.Image}}\t{{.Ports}}\t{{.Status}}"'
# Find commands I type often so I can alias them
# https://www.jakeworth.com/alias-terminal-commands/
alias typeless='history n 20000 | sed "s/.* //" | sort | uniq -c | sort -g | tail -n 100'
# Micro Editor
alias mic='micro'
alias nano='micro'
# Make mount command output pretty and readable
alias mnt='mount | column -t'
# jump to my download directory
alias dl='cd "$HOME"/Downloads'
# Youtube-dl
alias dlvid='youtube-dl --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail'
alias dlmp3='youtube-dl -x --audio-format mp3 --add-metadata --embed-thumbnail'
alias dlbest='youtube-dl -f bestvideo+bestaudio'
# Git
alias git add .='git aa'
alias git commit -m='git cm'
# mkdir && cd
function mcd() {
mkdir -p $1
cd $1
}
# Archive extraction
# usage: ex <file>
ex ()
{
if [ -f "$1" ] ; then
case $1 in
*.tar.bz2) tar xjf $1 ;;
*.tar.gz) tar xzf $1 ;;
*.bz2) bunzip2 $1 ;;
*.rar) unrar x $1 ;;
*.gz) gunzip $1 ;;
*.tar) tar xf $1 ;;
*.tbz2) tar xjf $1 ;;
*.tgz) tar xzf $1 ;;
*.zip) unzip $1 ;;
*.Z) uncompress $1;;
*.7z) 7z x $1 ;;
*.deb) ar x $1 ;;
*.tar.xz) tar xf $1 ;;
*.tar.zst) unzstd $1 ;;
*) echo "'$1' cannot be extracted via ex()" ;;
esac
else
echo "'$1' is not a valid file"
fi
}
# navigation
up () {
local d=""
local limit="$1"
# Default to limit of 1
if [ -z "$limit" ] || [ "$limit" -le 0 ]; then
limit=1
fi
for ((i=1;i<=limit;i++)); do
d="../$d"
done
# perform cd. Show error if cd fails
if ! cd "$d"; then
echo "Couldn't go up $limit dirs.";
fi
}
Followed by my .zshrc
neofetch | lolcat
# See https://github.com/ohmyzsh/ohmyzsh/wiki/Themes
# ZSH_THEME="robbyrussell"
ZSH_THEME=powerlevel10k/powerlevel10k
# zsh-syntax-highlighting has to be the last plugin!
plugins=(git tmux zsh-autosuggestions zsh-syntax-highlighting)
# Preferred editor for local and remote sessions
if [[ -n $SSH_CONNECTION ]]; then
export EDITOR='micro'
else
export EDITOR='nano'
fi
# To customize prompt, run `p10k configure` or edit ~/.p10k.zsh.
[[ ! -f ~/.p10k.zsh ]] || source ~/.p10k.zsh
source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh.sh
if [ -f ~/.aliases ]; then
. ~/.aliases
fi
eval $(thefuck --alias FUCK)
If a pdf file is located in a different folder, you have to add the path like this: $home/Downloads/source1.pdf If you want to merge all pdf’s of the current folder you cant type: