#shell

Is it just me, or is it weird that every terminal starts at the top-left? After three commands, your prompt stays at the bottom of the screen for the rest of the session anyway.

Everytime I click my way through a hierarchy tree, I long for a simple BASH shell with TAB completion. It’s such a simple thing, but TAB completion (usually implemented via the trusty Readline library) still ranks as one of the most productive tools in my book. So as I was once again trying to navigate to some page in a MindTouch site, I thought that all I really want is to treat this documentation hierarchy like a file system and mount it with a bash shell.

Toolkit for building a bash-like shell in the browser, including full readline support

This post aims to provide an overview of how to create a highly functional and easy to configure Text Triumvirate for those new to this tool chain. I try to focus on aspects of how to integrate zsh, vim, and tmux with particular focus on my experiences with two common problems—copy/paste functionality and color aesthetics.

This introduction to text manipulation on UNIX platforms provides an overview of some common commands widely available and installed standard on most UNIX-based releases. Many times these standard utilities are ignored in favor of more modern text-processors such as Perl, Python, or Ruby, which are not always installed on a system. An introductory review of these tools helps practitioners who are learning UNIX or Linux or those who may be looking to renew forgotten knowledge.

a simple HTTP / CGI server written in shell, using netcat for a socket

"Conque is a Vim plugin allowing users to execute and interact with programs, typically a shell such as bash, inside a buffer window. The goal is always to keep the terminal behaviour as close as possible to its native interface, while adding the additional features of Vim on top. "

"Part of the reason why the Linux command line is so POWERFUL!"

"Here are a few scripts, that I find really useful for speeding up my web development time."

"/usr/bin/curl -k --digest -u tivo:`cat ~/.tivodecode_mak` ~/ -c /dev/null TIVO_SOURCE_URL | /usr/local/bin/tivodecode -- - | ffmpeg -y -i - -threads 4 -s 432x320 -aspect 432:320 -r 29.97 -vcodec h264 -g 150 -qmin 24 -b 200k -level 30 -loop 1 -sc_threshold 40 -partp4x4 1 -rc_eq 'blurCplx^(1-qComp)' -refs 2 -qmax 51 -maxrate 1450k -keyint_min 40 -async 50 -acodec libfaac -ar 48000 -ac 2 -ab 128k IPHONE_COMPATIBLE_OUTPUT.mp4"

"Measures the speed of a pipe, by sitting in the middle passing the data along to the next process."

"pv - Pipe Viewer - is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline."

"To make it 'useful' you'll need to run the following in your bash shell: PROMPT_COMMAND='history | tail -n 1 | /path/to/twitter_post.pl' and tada! People really will know what you're doing RIGHT NOW. Ahem, sorry."

"Unfortunately, the only programming language I could find is sh, and there don't seem to be any IRC clients."

"To enter you have to press ` and then space (at least in my keyboard)"

"While PHP is very forgiving on errors, it is weak on the debugging side. It was missing a simple to use interactive shell for years."

"Visor provides a systemwide terminal window accessible via a hotkey, much like the consoles found in games such as Quake."

"Frontier for OS X is a bridge between the Macintosh and UNIX worlds."

xmlstarlet is the grep/awk/sed of XML

"Haserl is a small cgi wrapper that enables shell scripts to be embedded into html documents. It is intended for environments where something like PHP is too big."

I love these sorts of shell invocations. Looking forward to more of them using mdfind and mdls

"Here were our gems, the most useful tips that weren't already common knowledge among the developers."

"The following will fork bomb your shell" Ouch.

This makes me want to learn Scsh: "I couldn't get through the day as it is without the Prozac and Jack Daniels I keep on the shelf, behind my Tops-20 JSYS manuals."

Some nice shell scripting to scrape the BART schedule

Also works for the tabs in iTerm! (And presumably many other terms)