Faculty
Jay McGavren said
@uandi Here's a gist with the outlines I used for both courses: https://gist.github.com/3965735 Hope it helps!
Comments
u+i interact said
Could you post a gist of the used commands somewhere? Same applies to your first Shell Episode. I'm watching these videos on an Ipad and it is a little cumbersome to find the scenes later on just to have a look at the commands again. Nonetheless, great information.
42 Dev Team said
I've been working a lot lately on my terminal skills (especially auto-completes and productivity improvements). The second part of this series was way more useful (to me) than the first so I'm glad I watched it.
Daniel Puglisi said
dotfiles <3 check out mine --> https://github.com/danielpuglisi/dotfiles
saurabh said
Thanks - this was a really good screencast. I wanted to get the command typed in one of the running sessions in another session - this can be done by doing "history -r" which causes shell to re-read the history file. More detailed on such uses at: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/103944/real-time-history-export-amongst-bash-terminal-windows/3055135#3055135
Thomas Limp said
very nice screencast. one thing though, ~/.profile won't get loaded automatically if a ~/.bash_profile is present (see man bash). so you have to source ~/.profile yourself in the ~/.bash_profile if you want to make some shell independent settings in there.
Faculty
Jay McGavren said
Thanks for the feedback (and additional tips), everyone! I have episodes on a couple other topics I'll be doing first, but I'll definitely start accumulating material for another episode in this series.
happynoff said
You can also use the following in your .inputrc. Then only commands starting like your current one will cycle with up and down arrows.
"\e[A": history-search-backward "\e[B": history-search-forward
Bharat Ruparel said
Jay, You should continue this series. Excellent posts. I am looking for more stuff on JRuby as well. Keep up the good work. Thanks. Bharat
Justin T Hofmeister said
The reverse incremental search is amazing, I can't believe I've been getting by without using it; I shudder to think about all the time that could have saved in the past.
Great screencast!
Daniel Villarreal said
niceeeeee.
Faculty
Olivier Lacan said
Yeah, you better not stop that series anytime soon.
Przemek Owczarek said
history tips were the best, i learned a lot, thanks!
Bijan Himself said
echo "Another great screencast. Thanks Shooter McGavren."
The history stuff was particularly useful. I had no idea about that reverse incremental search.
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In this follow-up to the first Shell Productivity episode, Jay McGavren gives you more sensible and useful shell tricks. The history portions are Bash-centric but users of any shell will enjoy the tips on diff, xargs, and managing your dotfiles via GitHub.