Code Harbour - Command Line Talk March 2014

Code Harbour meetup March 2014:
http://www.meetup.com/codeharbour/events/166939532/

Screencasts:
Aliases: http://quick.as/o3d6c2zm
Pipelines & I/O Redirects: http://quick.as/lrd7ibar
Git: http://quick.as/radwcz61
Web Server: http://quick.as/10byiznn
NPM: http://quick.as/zjdasngo
SSH: http://quick.as/0aeqcm6y
Grep: http://quick.as/lvndfkr9
Grunt: http://quick.as/m8bmi23g
Yeoman: http://quick.as/r7gkfaea

Transcript

1. Command Line Friday, 7 March 14
2. Rob Huzzey • Web developer • Works for Holiday Extras @theHuzz www.robhuzzey.co.uk I don’t consider myself an “expert” at anything. I’m just passionate about the things I do. Friday, 7 March 14
3. Fear of the “unknown” Friday, 7 March 14
4. “You can destroy your machine” You can also wipe your machine by spilling coffee on it…. does this stop you drinking coffee next to your machine? Friday, 7 March 14
5. Friday, 7 March 14
6. What is command line? Friday, 7 March 14
7. • Terminal • Shell • Console • CLI Known by many names Friday, 7 March 14
8. Friday, 7 March 14
9. Do you need to know? • Like driving a car. You don’t NEED to understand the engine to operate it Friday, 7 March 14
10. This is the car’s UI Friday, 7 March 14
11. Why command line? • It’s fast... no, really fast! • Modular programs • Common UI • It looks pretty cool ;) Friday, 7 March 14
12. Where is it? /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app Cmd + Space (type terminal) or (OSX) Friday, 7 March 14
13. Command Line UI Friday, 7 March 14
14. Command line programs are very simple. The power is in how you combine them together. Friday, 7 March 14
15. Demo time! Friday, 7 March 14
16. Aliases Friday, 7 March 14
17. http://quick.as/o3d6c2zm Friday, 7 March 14
18. Pipelines & I/O Redirects Friday, 7 March 14
19. Text http://quick.as/lrd7ibar Friday, 7 March 14
20. • echo (print some output) • > (redirect output to file) • subl (alias for opening sublime text) • mv (moving / renaming a file) • cat (print contents of a file) • | (pipe output from program to input of next) • tr (string translation) Friday, 7 March 14
21. Git Friday, 7 March 14
22. http://quick.as/radwcz61 Friday, 7 March 14
23. • cd (change directory) • ls (list contents of directory) • subl (alias for opening sublime text) • git (command line interface for GIT version control) • clear (clears the console screen) Friday, 7 March 14
24. Web Server Friday, 7 March 14
25. http://quick.as/10byiznn Friday, 7 March 14
26. • touch (creates a file) • && (command connector) • subl (alias for opening sublime text) • $_ (use previous argument) • python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8004 (run webserver on port 8004) Friday, 7 March 14
27. Still with me? Friday, 7 March 14
28. NPM (& Express) Friday, 7 March 14
29. http://quick.as/zjdasngo Friday, 7 March 14
30. • npm (install node packages) • mkdir (create a directory) • && (command connector) • cd (change directory) • $_ (use previous argument) • ls (list contents of directory) • subl (alias for opening sublime text) Friday, 7 March 14
31. SSH Friday, 7 March 14
32. http://quick.as/0aeqcm6y Friday, 7 March 14
33. • ssh (remote login program) • ctrl + r (reverse history search) • cd (change directory) • ls (list contents of directory) • vi (text editor) • exit (exit ssh session) • clear (clears the console screen) Friday, 7 March 14
34. Grep Friday, 7 March 14
35. http://quick.as/lvndfkr9 Friday, 7 March 14
36. • grep (file pattern searcher) • subl (alias for opening sublime text) Friday, 7 March 14
37. How can it help you? (the really cool stuff) Friday, 7 March 14
38. http://gruntjs.com/ Friday, 7 March 14
39. http://quick.as/m8bmi23g Friday, 7 March 14
40. http://yeoman.io/ Friday, 7 March 14
41. http://quick.as/r7gkfaea Friday, 7 March 14
42. Alternatives • Mixture.io (http://mixture.io/) • Codekit (https://incident57.com/codekit/) • Koala (http://koala-app.com/) Friday, 7 March 14
43. New starter on the team? Friday, 7 March 14
44. Brew http://brew.sh/ Friday, 7 March 14
45. dotfiles http://dotfiles.github.io/ Friday, 7 March 14
46. Choice I don’t use anywhere near the amount that’s possible with command line. I just know that I can use it, I’ve given myself choice. Friday, 7 March 14
47. Thank you Friday, 7 March 14
48. Talkshop http://www.meetup.com/Talkshop-Kent/ The purpose of Talkshop is to discuss and debate topics affecting business and people in the digital age so we can all share our knowledge and collaborate on ideas for the future Friday, 7 March 14
49. Questions? Friday, 7 March 14
50. Useful Links • Addy Osmani’s talk on automating front end workflow (https://speakerdeck.com/addyosmani/ automating-front-end-workflow / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OAfGm_cI6Y) • Some useful command line commands • http://dontfearthecommandline.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/unix-linux-and-bsd-command-line- cheat.html • http://www.westwind.com/reference/os-x/commandline/ • quickcast.io - Awesome piece of software for screen capturing... came in VERY useful (http:// quickcast.io/) Friday, 7 March 14
51. Cool Star Wars thing Enter this into command line: telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl Enjoy ;) Friday, 7 March 14