 stop typing so much so a lot of people think you know I do a lot of what I do probably most of what I do on a computer through the shell and they think oh that's typing a lot I was showing someone how to do use YouTube DL the other day and like so I have to type this every time I want to download a YouTube video it's like no no that you watch these tutorials people show you how to do stuff in shell they show you that so you know how to do it and then you create aliases functions scripts or even just shortcuts for this stuff so I'm gonna give you a few examples here on stuff I do through shell and like in the last video I did I showed you how to use SFTP and scop being all that stuff to transfer files from a computer well you don't need to do that so let's say I want to log in my son's computer you know I could go SSH Connor at and then type in his IP address for his computer no on my computer I just type in Connor and then I type in my password and I'm at his computer if I wanted to transfer files using SFTP I have an alias for him I just type in Connor s and I can hit tab for SFAT SFTP and then again I type in this and I typed the wrong key there now I'm in his directory I run his computer I can go through and copy files back and forth I can let me show you I'll just alias and I'll grab for my aliases with his name and you can see this is this is the alias I just alias Connor to this I use alias Connor SFTP to this command it's super simple but let's get a little more complicated that let's talk about my daughter's computer and her tablet if I type in just her name it actually runs a script that has uses fcf which gives me a little menu here if I want to SSH into a computer I choose that and hit enter SFTP enter here I can hit enter there if I want to SSH into her tablet I choose that if I want to go to her files because I have her files synchronized to my computer I can choose files and they'll bring me to that directory if I choose sync it will sync the files from that directory and synchronize them with her I believe tablet is what I have that set up for or I can just quit her computer is not on right now and her tablet isn't on so I'm not gonna show you that but again also I have an alias or a script for my wife I type in her name and I can SSH into her computer I can SFTP to her computer or I can do her directory her phone synchronizes with our server which synchronizes with my computer so if I want to go to her most recent photos I can choose that it will bring me to that directory so those are some examples now get to you know the more fun stuff if I just type in phone on my computer I have lots of options here I have my phone plugged in through USB here if I choose shell it starts up ADB and I get a shell and I can start doing stuff through ADB on my phone ADB is the Android Android debugging bridge if I type in phone again I can SSH it when I enable SSH on my computer on my phone which is just matter of typing SSHD in termics I can use SFTP if I want transfer files to it if I want to choose directory it's going to move me to a directory on my computer here that synchronizes with my phone so I can modify the files and push them over if I type in phone again I can come up here I can search through packages this just used ADB to list all packages installed on my phone and now I can so search through and see what packages are installed so like simple calculator gallery phone you know and so I can see quickly all the packages they're installed on this phone if I do phone again I can do back up the packages so I can pull packages down I can upgrade packages kill kills ADB server because sometimes you do that screen opens up a screen so here is my phone here and I can well I'm not going to show you my passphrase but I can go through there and I actually have my phone up on my screen here actually let me quickly unlock it I guess I could just use a finger fingerprint reader I didn't need typing my code if I can type in screen again I'm using FCF so I can actually type you know screen and get it I don't have to go through the whole menu and then here I can just see everything that's on my screen I can do stuff that way if I type in phone again I can come up here shell is the same as the shell the bottom I have it in there it's probably the most used that used so I use ADB so I have it it's first thing on the list but then everything else is listed alphabetically I believe so push and pull using ADB if I want to pull a file so this runs an ADB command that lists all the files in my my directory on my phone so I do that and again I'm using FCF so I'm listing all these files I can go music and I can see these files I can type in something like back how about that and I can find a back song here like loser and I can enter and it's now pulling that file from the phone through USB to my computer if I wanted to push something again I can type in phone I can type in push I can hit enter now it's listing everything in the current directory and subdirectories of where I am and I can type something like let's see tragic rabbit and I can hit enter now it's listing again all the directories on my phone I can type in music and I can say yeah I want to push that over phone and just push it to the phone so again I don't have to type out all those long commands because if I do them regularly I create aliases scripts or functions so no just because using the shell doesn't mean you have to type out these long complicated commands all the time you you can also create icons in your desktop that runs scripts or functions so you can just click an icon that's why I do on my phone a lot I have termux on there to go you use the shell on your phone yeah well you know I plug it into my computer or SSH into what I create all these aliases to where if I'm at the shell I can just type in you know a couple of letters or I have here let me unlock my phone again and type in phone and I can go screen and I'll drag over here and you can see I have a list of commands here I can click on one of these like net scan that scan looks at my IP address and then list out all the IPs in a range and scans them and actually creates an HTML file opens up in the web browser so I can click on these links in the web browser these ones create I click on either of these ones is a script that I wrote that generates an anime gift the other one's same thing but it loops it back and forth kind of ping-pongs it but it will when I click on it it opens up the terminal with a list of my most recent photos using fcf and then I can choose one of those our videos and I click one of those videos and it will generate a gift for me and I'm all good to go so yeah I use the shell but I create shortcuts on my phone you can create icons using termux too but they all look the same so I prefer the list view otherwise they all just it's like you got to read the names anyway one more thing you can like I said you can do aliases functions scripts you can have icons another option great option when you're on your desktop is shortcut key so here's an example here I am at my page on YouTube if I was to right-click one of these and say copy link or I actually use my keyboards I have a plug-in vimium and I just type yf and it gives me some things and I can go AK and I just copied that to my clipboard so once I have a URL copied so either using the keyboard they're going copy like that I just hit my modifier key and why and it's now going to start treating that using MPV which I prefer no ads even though I have a block anyway but I like MPV I like MPV I like the the controls I can speed things up in more increments than YouTube allows fashion YouTube lousy and slow it down more than YouTube allows I can do screenshots put back to regular speed there's all these different things I can do and you can do that for any program and it's also pulling down the format that I want the resolution that I want to have a check is this does this resolution exist if so pull it down if not go to this next format if not just use whatever the default is because I prefer I don't need 4k videos especially if I'm on my little Chromebook somewhere I don't need 4k videos going because it's not going to play right so I go for a little lower resolution by default but I have almost every key on my keyboard is a shortcut if I'm using it with the Windows key or whatever you call it or control alt something and so yeah using the shell doesn't mean that you type everything out every single time using a shell allows you to simplify it and take these repetitive tasks and make it so they're not so repetitive for you but repetitive for the computer which is what computers are for they're for repeating menial tasks over and over and over again so anyway food for thought hope you enjoyed this have a great day films by Chris calm that's Chris decay there's a link in description and I hope you have a happy new year