Halloween Bash - Bash Profile Generator

WYSIWYG Bash Profile Generator
Try it at http://xta.github.com/HalloweenBash/

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1. Halloween Bash Bash Prompt String Generator by @rexfeng (Flatiron School 2012)
2. Good programmers are lazy • Your tools are extremely important • Don't make things harder than they have to be
3. GUI vs CLI • Graphical user interface ◦ Familiar, Mouse to move • Command-line interpreter ◦ Help! What do I type in this box?
4. Bash (Bourne-again shell) • a CLI • Released in 1989
5. Launch Terminal (OS X) • Bash (shell) is the program which actually processes commands and returns output. • Terminal.app is the wrapper program which runs Bash (shell) • Cmd+N for New • Cmd+T for new Tab
6. Bash Customization • .bash_profile • .bash_login (if started as a login shell, was passed the --login flag) • .bashrc (evaluated when bash was invoked as an interactive shell)
10. Google Prompt String Generators • Lots of reading in small fonts • What is \@? • What about [\e[0m\]? • I just want my Bash to look great, not solve a puzzle.
11. Halloween Bash • easy way to customize your .bash_profile prompt string (PS1) • don't need to read 'man bash' and look for 'PROMPTING' section
12. How to use Halloween Bash • Drag & drop - what you see is what you get • Click the color you want • Copy & paste into .bash_profile
13. Don't see any changes? • Open a new Window/Tab • Run "source ~/.bash_profile" to reset
14. • Live site http://xta.github. com/HalloweenBash/ • Github https://github.com/xta/HalloweenBash Find it online