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Miguel Laginha
November 04, 2015
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Pimp my terminal
My tips and tricks presentation for unix day at DEIUC, Coimbra
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Pimp my terminal A tale of how I reached satisfactory
console karma
$ whoami • Software engineer • /home/dei2001/mmachado • sciencematters.io •
Previously 9y @IPNlis • g ‘miguel laginha’
| Summary • Premisses • Terminal vs iTerm2 • Bash
vs Zsh vs fish shell • Pimpin' time • Tips and tricks
Why are $(we) here?
“terminal” indeed.com job trends
“cloooouuuuud” indeed.com job trends
“PaaS” indeed.com job trends
“docker” indeed.com job trends
Which terminal app to use?
None
None
Which shell? ps -o comm $$
Shell options $ Bash # default $ Zsh # awesome
$ Fish shell # so awesome it hurts
Let’s start pimpin’ #copypaste
# first and foremost $ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://
raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/ master/install)"
# plus.. homebrew-cask! $ brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
# use homebrew to install zsh $ brew install zsh
$ chsh -s `which zsh` $ vim ~/.zshrc # hack away
# install oh my zsh $ curl -L http://install.ohmyz.sh |
sh $ vim ~/.zshrc # hack away
# Zsh syntax highlighting $ cd ~/.oh-my-zsh && git clone
git:// github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax- highlighting.git $ source ~/.oh-my-zsh/zsh-syntax- highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
# Z $ brew install z $ . `brew —prefix`/etc/profile.d/z.sh
# outdated! Z is now a oh-my-zsh plugin
# Power vim with plugins $ curl -L https://bit.ly/janus-bootstrap |
bash
# Pimp iTerm2 $ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ chriskempson/tomorrow-theme/master/iTerm2/ Tomorrow%20Night.itermcolors
Tips and tricks #mac
$ open .
$ cat .zshrc | pbcopy $ pbpaste >> .zshrc_backup
$ mdfind -onlyin ~/Documents report
$ say “This is probably useless” $ brew update &&
brew upgrade && say “finished brewing”
What else? #cool stuff
# curl.io https://curl.io # do it live http://doitlive.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ # ascii
cinema https://asciinema.org
«Never settle» Productivity matters.
$ Thank you_ @brecke