As a Laravel Dev who consistently uses Macs, here's a 🧵 of little tips I have for you when using the command line
#macos #laravel #symfony #phpc
#macos #laravel #symfony #phpc
1. If you need to find a command you previously used CTRL + R will let you search for old commands in your ~/.zsh_history file.
2. To move quickly left and right on the CLI, hold the ALT key with the arrow keys and it will force the cursor left and right to the next white space in the command.
3. Any commands made with Symfony Console components, like Laravel Console commands or even Composer can be shortened e.g. 'composer dump-autoload' can become 'compuser du' and it will still run as long as there's no name conflicts
4. Do you need to copy some command output to the clipboard? Pipe the output to pbcopy e.g. 'echo "hello world" | pbcopy' and then you can paste it into another app, no more awkward selecting!
5. Likewise you can use pbpaste e.g. 'echo "I love to paste $(pbpaste)"' should you want to take something from the clipboard to use in a command.
6. Any command you need to run with different environment variables for one off, they can be included at the start of a command. e.g. 'APP_ENV=production php artisan migrate' will run the command with that env overriding other values.
7. On every computer I use I always as 'alias art="php artisan"' to my ~/.zshrc file so I only have to type 'art' for my laravel console commands e.g. 'art migrate'
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