What do you Google EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. and never just memorize?

How to make a tar file...

damian

at least extracting is easy (say it in a german accent) tar -xzf "xtract ze files"

Chrissy Wainwright

and -czf == 'compress ze files'

Amin Mohamed Ajani

well what works for me is tar -xzvf "xtract ze vucking files"
No kidding that's how remember it

THREAD

Liz Rodriguez

this...is actually brilliant! lol

Amin Arria

That's a great way! Jajajaaj

But it's important to note that tar is smart enough to detect the format so I prefer the general tar -vxf

Florian Reuschel

Jun 19 '18

Even though as a German with decent English pronunciation this is a little bit insulting, I'll probably never forget this ever again. Thanks! 🙈

Thank you so much.

Isn't that for zipped tar files? -xzf = extract zipped (tar) file.

tbodt

B. Agustín Amenábar Larraín

Jun 25 '18

I threw this one at a dev I used to work with. He answered instantly, he could have disarmed 2 bombs with that speed.

Instant respect gained

Sanjayshr

I figured out how to remember it. To create tar, use c option and for extracting replace c with x ==> $tar will remain same for both Lol :) . tar -cvf filename.tar file/dir_path && tar -xvf filename.tar.

regex

The same with me!! But I found VerbalExpressions (github.com/VerbalExpressions) to have solved it for me.

Kevin Le

That is very good to know about.

Ferocit

I usually just go to regexr.com and trial-and-error the syntax until it matches what I want.

Ryan Haber

Regex kills me sometimes.

Frederik 👨‍💻➡️🌐 Creemers

How to find out which process is listening on a certain point on my mac. I'm often switching between projects, and have a server from another project running on a port that I now need for another server.

And it looks like Heroku's CLI doesn't always stop all processes correctly when you stop it using ctrl+c

Palle

You could add a function to your .bashrc to make this easier:

listening() {
    lsof -n -iTCP:$1 | grep LISTEN
}

Then (after restarting your terminal or typing source ~/.bashrc) type listening 8080 to find out what process is blocking that port.

Andy Zhao (he/him)

How to properly write a Rails migration file.

Add a column? Huh? What???

Author

Oh yeah. I always copy and paste from old files.

Ukaza Perdana

Dec 30 '17

IIRC:

rails g migration AddStuffToTableName new_column1:integer new_column2:text #etc. etc.

Valentin Baca

Converting Array<->List in Java*. Been coding Java for 6+ years and still don't care to learn/memorize this.
Objective-C block syntax
bash test format and flags
vim macro create and execute

I noticed I could never remember these, so I always make aliases, shell functions, or short ~/bin/ scripts for them instead:

tar: xkcd.com/1168/
netstat flags (other than "-tulpn" which I have memorized as "tull-pin" like "Tolkien")
ssh tunnel syntax

Edit: *in one-line.
Array to list:

String[] array = ...;
List<String> immutableList = Arrays.asList(array);
List<String> mutableList = new ArrayList<String>(Arrays.asList(array));

List to array:

List<String> list = ...;
String[] array = list.toArray(new String[list.size()]);

Clear as mud...

Oscar

Jul 11 '18

Helpful protip. I learned yesterday, that list.toArray(new String[0]) is faster than the version with the explicit size given.

Lynne Tye

I was about to write the same thing. How to vertically align elements... without using flex 😂

RAILS MIGRATION

Regex. While I understand how it works and how it can be used, it's difficult for me to memorize the right regex that should be used at every point. So I just google whenever I want to make use of it. :)

Author

Oh yeah that's a big one

Tiago Marques

I was just like that... but then I've found regex101.com/ and now, I'm almost proficiente writing regex!

gustavo

regex101 is the single best resource I've ever found for regex.

Miff

It's funny in my case. I know enough regex to get by, but I generally need to google to find out how to actually apply it.

Do I need RegExp.prototype.test or String.prototype.match in JS? What are the order of parameters in preg_match in PHP? What are the little parentheses things called in .NET, captures or groups?

Andrew

I had the same problem, until I found Rubular:

rubular.com/

Bonus tip: making a permalink will also save all the test cases used. Makes for an excellent inline comment!

Roger Paviani

Same here...
BTW, I knew someone must've been written about regular expressions when I read the title.. 😂

Me too!
Hahaaahaa

I can never remember how it works either. I found this to be helpful, though! regexr.com/

George Offley

I always have to Google regex. Or copied old code.

Reynaldo Jose Abreu

Same here. I can only remember $,^,*,+ and /s /w. I always end up up googling an example and going from there.

Author

For me it's "manually start postgresql"

Every once in a while my postgres server isn't running and I know to punch that into my browser and land on this Stack Overflow question, where I proceed to copy this command into my terminal:

pg_ctl -D /usr/local/var/postgres -l /usr/local/var/postgres/server.log start

It happens infrequently enough that I never bother to alias it or remember how to type it out. I just remember what to Google.

Galdin Raphael

I have postgres installed via homebrew. So I use brew info postgres to copy the start command :)

lepinekong

May 25 '18

So did I then I realize how many precious minutes of my life I'm losing so I decided to buy a domain for 75 cents mycodesnippets.space :) I write things down little by little as soon as I need it the first time or I risk to never do it by lazyness !

Liz Rodriguez

I could never remember "rails new myapp --database=postgresql" :|

Srikanth

Feb 11 '18

I was gonna say this. Have bookmarked the stackoverflow post on this. :D

Kwaku Eshun

Oh yes, I even googled and used this today because my service keeps stopping.

Kaustav Banerjee

cant you just sudo service postgresql start ? :P

On Linux, yes. On OSX, no unfortunately.

Dave Jacoby

sed and awk and how to use them.

Tony

gist.github.com/Kunde21/3633e1e9ef...

Creating SSH Keys

Martin Kiesel

Jun 4 '18

I just ssh-k ↑ in zsh and just list all previous key generation commands or if I am not sure what I am looking for I use fzf

# fh - repeat history
fh() {
  print -z $( ([ -n "$ZSH_NAME" ] && fc -l 1 || history) | fzf +s --tac | sed 's/ *[0-9]* *//')
}

Chad Kunde

Apr 28 '18

I was helping someone with this earlier this year. Ended up creating a helper for it:

Mathieu PATUREL

Suprised tldr didn't got mentioned.

It's a pretty neat tool to do this kind of things...

ImTheDeveloper

Best link I've seen all week. Heroic!!!!!

@ScottFred

Apr 26 '18

That's awesome! thanks

Aidan Harding

Javascript array methods. Is this one in-place, or returning a new array? I don't know, but MDN does!

Andy Zhao (he/him)

And centering things. Completely clueless every time.

Andrew

here's a handy multiple choice questionnaire!

howtocenterincss.com/

THREAD

Michael Minshew

Apr 9 '18

holy crap, whoever made this site needs a medal. Great recommendation!!!

Ahmed T. Ali

How to extract tar.gz file in Linux command line!

Dean Bassett

Saw a comment from above and it changed my life.

tar -xzf filename xzf = "Xtract Ze Files!" (german accent)

ErwanDavid

Excellent, noté that you may get ride of the dash.

Galdin Raphael

tar -xf filename

Read as tar eXtract File filename.
Saw this on an SO answer and never had to google it ever again :)

Ahmed T. Ali

Wow, I never thought of it.

Thanks :)

ImTheDeveloper

Everything git related

harry_wood

Apr 24 '18

Yeah. For some reason I really find some git procedures harder to memorise than others. It's ludicrous the number of times I've googled "git unadd a file" and "git reset branch to remote"

Igal Tabachnik

How to delete a remote branch in git.

Barney Wilks

Mar 18 '18

Oh boy, this gets me every. Single. Time.

ItsASine (Kayla)

Cherry picking commits in git, because I can never remember if it's cherrypick or cherry-pick

A more efficient way would be to just do it and correct if it errors, or alias it to git cherry or something

Also, how to exit vim, and how to insert in vim, and basically how on Earth did I end up in vim omg get me out

Eljay-Adobe

Jun 11 '18

I've been using Vim now for about 24 years. Primarily because I don't know how to quit.

Sakib Hadžiavdić

How to "unignore" files with git... Here is a nice and short way.

Bart Karalus

I would be responsible for 95% of hits coming from google search into the Tutorialpoint's html5 minimal template. Now I could easily type it in every time I set up a new page, but it is now a matter of extreme laziness I think.

Paula

This is stupid but g++ compiling filename and output order in the terminal. I've been doing it for four years now and still failing to remember.

Loïc Giraudel

ln -s [source] [destination] or ln -s [destination] [source] ?
find . -name [...] -exec grep '...' {} \;

And of course sed, awk and more generally shell syntax (if, loops, switch, etc).

Šimon Let

Jun 17 '18

I got a good way to remember argument order for ln:
Destination is optional so it must go second.
By default ln creates a link with the name of the source in the current directory.

JSn1nj4‍‍💻

Jun 16 '18

Oh yeah, linking. Forgot about that one (obviously, since I need to Google it every time lol).

How to exit vim.

Many moons ago, at one of my first jobs, I got myself in trouble with this. I was editing something in prod without knowing how to save or exit. I was a windows nt guy mostly. So, like one does, I hard-rebooted the server instead of asking for help... After the dust cleared, my boss made me sit at a keyboard for over an hour launching vim and learning how to at least save and exit. :) I have :wq, :q,:q! burned into my muscle memory to this day...

Oh god why did they have the new guy making changes in prod you poor soul

George Offley

How to spell maintenance.

Albrecht Scheidig

Oct 25 '17

That's unneccessarrelly, but true.

Angelika Tyborska

This! Plus a few other words: convenient, conscience, accommodate. I'm not a native speaker ;).

Jim Schubert

Feb 10 '18

I don't have to Google the spelling, but I'd say 99% of the time I type "valud". I say it correctly as "val-id" and only mistype because of the QWERTY keyboard layout. This is the only word that I consistently type incorrectly. It's not a speed thing (like "teh"), because it happens when typing slowly as well. I've been typing for a really long time and I'm beginning to think my brain just thinks this is a funny prank.

Robin | JamesDev

Oct 22 '17

As a non native english speaker:

slice()

splice()

Brett Stevenson

Usually, anything that is outside of my basic Git workflow.

Rob Cameron

Find a file in Linux. I know it involves "find" and "name" but I have to look up the exact syntax each time. (For reference, the sledgehammer version is find . -name testfile.txt from the root of the drive.)

Anton Linevych

Mar 22 '18

How to type this: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Den McHenry

Jun 16 '18

The best thing they ever added to Slack was the /shrug command.

Gilberto Alexandre dos Santos

Author

Mar 22 '18

Ha! Me too. I know to go straight to textfac.es

PHP array_push and array_key_exists parameters order.

Janne "Lietu" Enberg

this alone should tell you you need to use another language ;)

Daan Wilmer

Nov 5 '17

Argument orders in all array functions in PHP for me. That's just horrible. VSCode gives hints though, so that helps. I still have to look up the exact names of functions regularly, though.

Kasey Speakman

Updating the list of git remote branches. It doesn't refresh when you sync so it will continue to list remote branches that don't even exist anymore until you manually run the command below. (Which I had to google again to put in this comment.)

git remote update origin --prune

Git, brew, and bundler all have some kind of prune flag so it's starting to stick for me.

Oleksandr

Feb 13 '18

easy to remember because it is like dried fruit!

Alejandro

text-overflow: ellipsis

Aswath KNM

unzip a tar file especially with that different extensions .xz , .bz etc..

vim commands to cut,copy and paste

regex in python and other python builtins . Can't memorize the whole docs right ?

vim...

I always Google how to create a webpack configuration file.
- You need to be a 🚀👨‍🔬 to configure it from memory.
Adding a style tag for CSS files 😝.

Christopher McClellan

Setting firewall rules with iptables.

Ever heard of ufw?

How to flush DNS cache on OSX

Matt Durr

Feb 10 '18

I literally added an alias to my ZSH config for this one

alias flushdns='sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder'

Jonathan Solis

How to git checkout a remote branch. I’m gonna try it it without googling

git remote add repoFork <url>
git fetch repoFork
git checkout —track repoFork/branch

I hope that’s right I just looked it up again yesterday

David Vincent Gagne

MySQL and PHP date formatting. Every time. What’s weekday again?

juankOrtiz

Apr 12 '18

My first choice was "Regex", but it seems you guys beat me to that choice.

So, without a shame I can say that everytime I search "how to insert an element at the end of another with jquery". Frigging append(), man.

What gets me is when I'm switching between languages. Java uses add, Python has append, and Ruby uses push. But then some gem will use add.

This is why I shamelessly use IDEs while everyone I work with uses vim.

Hudson Burgess

"How to do x in CSS" where x is anything

Marco Alka

flexbox and grid with all their different attributes and values :/

Ryan LaBouve

When I accidentally commit on master instead of a branch and I need to reset my master to match origin:

git reset --hard origin/master

SQL syntax #ashamed.

How to use "find ... -exec ..." correctly.

Its vs It's

How to use grep and find.
Also when I write data = {} in Python, is this a set or a dict?

Ahmed T. Ali

This can't be a Set

data = {}

It's always a dictionary!
If you want an empty Set use:

data = set()

P.S. it's handy to use the official Python REPL and type type(youvariable) ;)

Yechiel Kalmenson

CSS attributes
Rails generators
ActiveRecord queries
Syntax for any function I don't use on a weekly basis

Jeremy Mikkola

The argument order to the various PHP array functions

Antonio Radovcic

The order of arguments for map/reduce/filter is JS. Was it (index, item) or (acc, index, item) or (item, index)....

Brian Hanna

The arguments for JavaScript's array.slice method. Every. Damn. Time.

Max Antonucci

Vim commands.

Just...I can't even.

Andrew