Amit Agarwal

$ xvkbd -xsendevent -text $(date +%Y%m%d) I don’t want to waste time to all the time type the current date. I have set this snippet in my kde shortcuts with meta+l. All the window managers have key-bindings AFAIK. That works in all softs, CLI or GUI…

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