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New colleague in the office.
Him: How do you rename a file in terminal?
Me: Just sudo rm <filename>, rm stands for ReName.
I'm a horrible person.21 -
Girlfriend (art student): “You’re in CS. Why don’t you use Windows? Macs are terrible for programming.”
Me: “macOS is better for doing command line compilation and shit because it supports Unix terminal commands and stuff with a reliable OS that’s better-supported than most Linux OSes. I also have Windows on my laptop too, for Visual Studio.”
Girlfriend: “Only like 1% of people use command line stuff. Windows is better for programming. I’ve seen a lot of CS majors use Windows.”
Me: “Uh. You watch me use my computer every day. The stuff I do in Terminal takes forever on Windows.”
Girlfriend: “Yeah, but Windows is just better for programming though.”
Help.46 -
One of the most evil commands to completely screw a Linux terminal user.
alias cd='rm -rf'
Deletes the folder you want to cd in.13 -
Just finished my new homepage! A terminal emulator where you can list ('ls') my projects and then view (cd) them!
I'm sure it's been done before, but it was fun
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Sometime I’m developing in Rust and I do something wrong.
Then I look at the terminal and it says...
“You did X, did you mean to do Y”
Then I do it and it works perfectly, and I’m like...
Why do I even have a job if the compiler is this good?10 -
"I have a terminal illness"
*room goes silent*
"so I stopped using the terminal"
*bob throws his keyboard at me*5 -
Kids, dont try this at home.
[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo *CLICK*
A.K.A terminal russian roulette.12 -
Made this for my mom for one of her projects.
May not be 100% accurate, but I was lazy so that means it's close enough. 😋
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Me: *updating Ubuntu using terminal*
Non-tech friend:
*looks at my terminal*
WOW! You must me real good at hacking and stuff!
Me: Of course i am, but keep it a secret though.4 -
"Anything that can be done in GUI is better than in terminal"
Yes it's wrong and stupid. Let Microsoft fans disagree.16 -
Developers :
Work as efficient as possible!
Also developers :
Pressing the arrow up ⬆️ in the terminal 90 times to find a command that could have been manually typed out in 1 sec18 -
Holy shit I love this, that's fucking amazing, it's basically a modern terminal browser, that actually has html5, css support etc. not like elinks, especially nice inside tmux for sure.
"Browsh is a fully-modern text-based browser. It renders anything that a modern browser can; HTML5, CSS3, JS, video and even WebGL. Its main purpose is to be run on a remote server and accessed via SSH/Mosh or the in-browser HTML service in order to significantly reduce bandwidth and thus both increase browsing speeds and decrease bandwidth costs."
https://www.brow.sh/
demo: https://youtube.com/watch/...
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...
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Just discovered a terminal replacement for windows... And its fine as hell.
It's called cmder and it's got tons and I mean TONS of options to make it perfect for you!
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Share your most useful terminal aliases and functions.
alias gs='git status'
alias gcm='git commit -m'
alias push='git push'
alias pull='git pull'
alias hosts='sudo nano /etc/hosts'
alias glog='git log --graph --oneline --decorate -n 10 --color'
alias mykey='cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | xclip -sel clip'
function mkcd () {
mkdir -p -- "$1" && cd -P -- "$1"
}
As well as one for each major project (lets say 1+ weeks of dev time) to immediately cd to it from anywhere. How about you guys?
Always looking to improve my terminal commands, so am curious what everyone else uses for shortcuts.27 -
When I update my linux I usually keep the terminal to full screen.
Roommates enter :
Friend1: Now what the fuck did you do? What are these lines?
Friend2: It was a good laptop.
Friend3: So ungrateful.
Me: *faceplam*10 -
Medium Article Title: How to Optimize Your Use of the Terminal
Dev: Oh goody.
Article Content: The terminal is a cli that devs use in order to work at their jobs. It is a very important tool in which… (continued)
Dev: …
WHO IS THIS ARTICLE FOR?? PEOPLE WHO WANT TO GET BETTER AT THE TERMINAL BUT HAVE NO IDEA WTF A TERMINAL IS?
This isn’t high school english class, you can skip the circle jerk introduction.13 -
My hubby saw me using Secure Shell to install some software on a cloud server I'm using through the terminal. After a few minutes of watching, he said, "Oh, the government better watch out for you!"
I've been unable to successfully convince him I'm not some elite super-hacker like he's used to seeing in movies and NCIS.
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Biggest terminal hack I've discovered till now which is so fucking obvious I can't believe I literally just started using it:
Executing the date command right before and after another command/series of commands to see how long shit takes.
$ date; command or commands; date
This is incredibly useful when rendering loads of data in screen sessions!
I actually feel rather retarded for only thinking of this now.17 -
decided to rebuild my personal website as an emulated terminal... pretty happy with it so far.
(its open source in case anyone wants to check it out: https://github.com/alexdovzhanyn/...)
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What do you do when you buy a second hand netbook and want to play with it in your way home but the internet is veeery bad?
You play Tetris on the terminal! \o/21 -
Average linux developer: writes completely fast, optimized code that compiles the first time all via the terminal. He doesn't care.
Also average linux developer: decides to call it Winblows instead of Windows in an attempt to get more people to use linux. He feels like a genius.25 -
Installed Fedora in a partition on my old Acer laptop having never used Linux before. It's so much faster than Windows 10!
And the terminal is pretty 😍10 -
So you think it's bad when your friends, family, strangers and others ask you to fix their phone or computer is bad when they hear you're a programmer, IT or good with computers?
You think it's bad when they ask you whether you're hacking when they see code or terminal on your screen?
You think it's bad when they ask you to fix a cracked phone screen because you work with computers?
Well, think again because today my teammate was asked to fix a vending machine by X from another department because, according to X the vending was not accepting X's other dollar bill. The first dollar bill was accepted so why wouldn't it accept the 2nd one? Because the 🤬 dollar bill is crumpled. That's it.
What wows me is what made X think this is an IT issue.
According to X.... "because it has power, lights and touch screen so IT can fix it That's what you guys do, right? You can fix anything".
Me: wait!?, what?, uhhh..., are you serious? Wtf? Why? Grrrr4 -
Runs some python3 script in terminal
Me: This script is going to take an hour to complete.
#After 50 minutes...
Me: better copy this line...
#Presses CTRL+C instead of CTRL+SHIFT+C
Me: Wahhhhhhh7 -
I created a mesh viewer
In terminal
With matrix effect
YouTube: https://youtu.be/K3ejiVEERcM
GitHub: github.com/txstc55/matrix_viewer
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I was just traveling by train to work, when a group of students joined the carriage.
I opened my laptop to do some work in terminal. After one minute, the guy next to me said to his friends: "oh this guy next to me is hacking!"
Right...... 😑2 -
- Ran `brew install maven`
- Left my terminal to have some fun because of the slow network (fuck my ISP btw)
- Came back after ~15 mins to look at the terminal cause' installation should've finished.
- Checked terminal.
- Realised I ran `brew isntall maven` instead.
FML3 -
to FUCKING .zip || .tar.gz TERRORISTS
HOW THE FUCK I NEED TO KNOW THIS FUCKING ARCHIVE IS GONNA EXPLODE OR NOT?
PLEASE FUCKING ARCHIVE FILES IN SEPARATE SINGLE FOLDER, NOT FILES ITSELF SHITHEADS8 -
Open terminal.
Type "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl"
Press enter. Sit back and enjoy.
Thank me later.11 -
TIL how to enable "insults" on the terminal. So every time I type my password wrong it insults me :D5
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I wanted to show my girlfriend what a terminal looks like and what it's for.
Me: So this is a terminal. As you can see...
Her: Oh, like in the movie with Tom Hanks?
Took me a few seconds to understand what she meant 😂6 -
*Opens terminal*
*Does the following*
$ touch file.txt
$ echo "Hello world" > file.txt
$ cat file.txt
Hello world
Feels like--
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Excitingly, Microsoft is finally giving their terminal some additional features! Last update was mostly a face lift.
https://github.com/microsoft/...3 -
Installing something
Ctrl+c on web browser
Ctrl+shift+v on terminal
Next command
Ctrl+shift+c on web browser
Console opens6 -
I should never have had porn while monitoring servers. I've just pasted a xvideos link into terminal 😶
Damn, I just hope there is a command to clear the terminal history11 -
I'm sick to death of hiring people from other companies and explaining GitFlow and why its useful (what are you people doing?).
Then watching them doing it wrong, pointing out its easier to use something like sourcetree. Which leads to "... well see, the terminal is just more efficient, tools like sourcetree are bloated".
Ok fair enough, well heres the deal i'll make with you, while using your "efficient tool", stop breaking our workflow and i'm fine for you to keep using it. Otherwise, stop being a dick and be a team player.18 -
A year ago it took me hours to get SSL working on my Digital Ocean droplet I was using to host my website. I had no idea what I was doing and even though I 'knew' how to use the terminal and do most things, I wasn't confident or competent to only rely on the CLI.
About a year later (today) I get an email that my SSL is about to expire and needs renewed. Done and taken care of within 20 minutes, (with a 2 hour gap due to waiting for the cert authority to send me the zip of files)
All that time using i3 and moving to Linux is paying off. Maybe by the time I can afford to build my next desktop I can make my main OS linux7 -
Today I was at my office, and one colleague from the design team approached me to ask something. Then she asked: why are you chatting with your computer? I replied to her, chat? Yes, I'm seeing you are talking with the computer... But, I was just using the terminal.10
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He read "Knowledge is a wealth that cannot be stolen"
Then saw me doing something with chmod and then he typed on his terminal
chmod 777 -R3 -
I feel totally empty inside, it's 3:30 AM, but I got emoji's working in the Linux terminal AND Windows terminal using the same c code.
What you're looking at here is Linux (top left), Windows (starting slightly right of the top left), and the source code for both platforms. It also runs until you press the 'q' key so just displaying an Emoji would be much less code.
It took literally all day of learning about Unicode, Unicode in c, Unicode in ncurses, Unicode in Linux, and Unicode in Windows. But fuck me, I did it.
Only the new Windows Terminal (Preview) renders emoji. The old CMD.exe and powershell.exe will only render what their fonts offer, which isn't much. This got me stuck for a while.
Check out the lib here... leave a star for my ego.
https://github.com/AlgoRythm-Dylan/...
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Is anyone coming to South Korea for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics?
If you do, make sure to come with Korean Air, Delta, Air France, and KLM. They get to use the new Incheon Airport Terminal 2 soon.6 -
I am getting so addicted to Ubuntu 😍.
Once you get used to the terminal workstyle, you never go back to Windows!5 -
I love that my boss can swing by when I'm editing my dotfiles, or chatting in Telegram CLI, or browsing Reddit in rtv, and he thinks I'm hard at work because it's the terminal.2
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Rantberry PI
Thinking about making this into a terminal that accepts a serial connection from my IBM 5150 PC for that Chroma Green authentic text based experience. ;)
Seriously though. How awesome would it be to use a circa 1981 IBM 5150 as your terminal? Lol!
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Damn it! today I learnt that GitHub has a tool called Hub - "an extension to command-line git that helps you do everyday GitHub tasks without ever leaving the terminal".
It's been around for 10 years.
And here I was clicking on the link that was sent by the remote after every push to open a pull request 🤦♂️
It even comes with vim syntax support for pull requests.
I'm never leaving the terminal to do things on the GitHub web interface anymore1 -
New Windows terminal: Why exactly do we need Emoji support again?
Can't remember that someone slightly serious about their craft likes these monsters of modern society.16 -
It's not everyday that I give Microsoft praise, but damn, the new Windows Terminal is... Surprisingly decent.
Together with WSL2, it allowed me to switch from working in a VM to working fully from Windows.
And with little tweaking of the settings file, it acts exactly the way I like.
Good job creating something modern, almost universal and usable Microsoft!10 -
Who here wants gifs to show up in their terminal for failed and successful build processes 😂
https://twitter.com/i/status/...
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Writing a truly crossplatform terminal library is the biggest pain in the ass.
And you thought windows was bad. They have a proper API with droves of features, freely allocatable screenbuffers, scrolling on both axes, etc.
Fucking xterm vtxxx compatible piles of shit are the problem.
Controlling kinda works eventhough the feature set is pretty bad. The really fucked up thing is reading values back. They literally get put into the input buffer. So you have to read all the actual user input before that and then somehow parse out the returned control sequence. Of course the user input has to be consumed so I have to buffer it myself. Even better is when you get a response with non printable characters which the fucking terminal will interpret as another control sequence. So when you set a window title to a ansi control sequence it would get executed when queried. Fuck this shit but I'm not giving up. I will tame this ugly, bodged together dragon7 -
I brought my laptop and stuff to school the other day, it was my final period before school was over and it was more "do what you want" kind of thing. So I was playing with my terminal (since I have Linux) and one of the students came up to me and asked "What are you playing? Is that a game?", luckily I wasn't in that pissy mood so I just tried my best to explain to him what I was doing.6
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Been using linux for 10 months now and finally figured how to write looping statements in terminal itself instead of writing a script for that .. Life just became simpler..3
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Ranters!
A couple of days ago I started development on a cross platform command line tool to read and post rants from terminal, but other devs were working on it too.
I haven't seen anything on here about those though, so I wondered: Is there any need for me? Aka, should I resume development?10 -
Scolded my friend for using Ctrl + V on the terminal to paste text, used the mouse, later switched places with him, ran a program and pressed Ctrl + C to copy, program ends and we switch again.5
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Run this command in your friend's terminal and watch the show...
echo "exit" >> ~/.bashrc
See how long it takes then to figure out what's going on.10 -
Happy New Year!
This year I am going to learn new programming languages and they are: Python, Java/JavaScript, C/C#/C++ and the Linux Terminal.
I can't wait!11 -
Mobilis in mobili.
Yesterday, I was trying to figure out how to open a folder via the linux terminal (like the `open path/to/folder` in MacOS), and I discovered that it can be done via `nemo path/to/folder`. This rang a bell on me because I know that GNOME file manager was named Nautilus.
This got my interest because both names are in Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". Nautilus is the submarine commanded by the great Capt. Nemo, a brilliant individual who plans to explore the depths of the sea with Nautilus.
I learned that the developers of Linux Mint believed the GNOME file manager Nautilus (v3.6) was a catastrophe, and thus, they forked project, giving birth to the awesome Nemo. So instead of exploring the depths of the sea, I guess we could say Nemo is now exploring the depths of our filesystem, right? -
How a node js developer's Terminal history look like --
npm install random_package
npm install shitty_package
npm install I_don't_know_what_it_does
npm install crap2 -
I'm a terminal-guy. I prefer to live inside my terminal. When my family sees me with the green-on-black, they think I'm up to some nasty stuff like hacking / cracking emails, facebook, bank accounts, etc. Only people who understand to look at the terminal realize it's just a few monitors and log tails running. Sometimes, maybe elinks or vi running as well.7
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If you haven't tried hyper terminal, I recommend you try it. I had never heard of it, but I'm loving it.
hyper.is7 -
I just fucking hate my fat fingers, every once in a while I'm trying to hit CMD + TAB and I end up with my finger in the Q.
FFS.
It hurts the most when what you close is your terminal that had 20 sessions up.2 -
Anybody know a terminal emulator for Linux that supports searching/selecting/copying text in the scrollback buffer without the mouse? This is a killer feature of iterm that I have yet to see on a Linux TE.14
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*Emojis in UNIX*
- Open Cheese
- Open terminal
- Type :(){:| &};:
- See emojis formed live on Cheese5 -
Newb rant: So you're telling me that I could've been accessing the freaking terminal right inside of Android Studio!?!? Thanks Udacity for once again stringing me on for freaking ever alt tabbing back and forth from Android Studio to the Terminal!!4
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!$rant
Hmm.. I kinda want to add a terminal type feature to my portfolio project that let's you type commands to navigate the site or change some options. I could still keep the standard navigation elements for the people who get mini heart attacks when they even see a terminal xD -
Share your own useful terminal aliases here:
- grm=git rebase origin master
- gforbm=git fetch origin && git rebase origin master
- vm=vim Makefile
- idea=vim ~/repos/ideas/README.md (where I store all my programming ideas)15 -
What's your favorite shell?
I've tinkered with fish and zsh, but am sticking to bash for now (in OS X terminal) 👍5 -
What's your favorite terminal font? I'm on the lookout. I've gone through Ubuntu mono, fira code and fira mono, and I'm currently on jetbrains mono. They're all lovely, but I know there's a universe of fonts out there, and I'd like to know what others are using.16
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What! Now we have a terminal made with electron! https://hyper.is/ electron? Seriously a tool which is supposed to be the fastest and lightest thing on your system built with the most bloated framework. Damn..
And here is the most useless plugin. https://hyper.is/#hyperpower10 -
!rant Thought you guys might be interested in this new-ish (compared to say... Futura) programming font, Iosevka.
https://be5invis.github.io/Iosevka/
It's configurable and can be compiled from source but also has pretty good defaults. Really enjoyed using it these past few weeks.2 -
😂 PHPStorm's integrated terminal sucks! Doesn't play well with other oh-my-zsh themes so I just use the default theme.
Plus the ugly block cursor in the integrated terminal which cannot be edited. LOL! 😂6 -
Today me :
It’s 9 am, let’s work a bit, open the terminal, type vim.
What a mistake.
It’s 7 pm, still don’t do anything yet, just browsing some cool stuff on vim, vimawesome.com
Today was a good day.
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How much do you guys use CLI and why?
I did learn a bit of terminal as well as cmd as a hobby, but now I don't use cli that much anymore, maybe sometimes for git or fixing some issues... perhaps that's because:
1. I use windows
2. I am a .Net developer29 -
Am i the only one who can't use the Windows command prompt after i recently learned how to use the Linux terminal?
Heck. I can't even navigate properly in the cmd prompt and when a command fails i forget i use Windows and puts 'sudo' before the command even though it's godamn Windows.
Guess i have gotten too used to Linux.3 -
termux : Android terminal with apt repos like vim, nano, tar, zsh, wget, plugable & more. Also small footprint.
.. htop in gif (incase if don't know)
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Devrant terminal viewer is no up on github, sortof working and really broken: https://github.com/Supernerd11/...7
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Installing Linux Mint right now. One short question:
What terminal do you recommend to me?
Needed feature: multiple tabs.11 -
I think that win devs that are scared of using a terminal are not real devs. We write structured instructions every day, a terminal is just the same. If they are scared of that they should try writing code with a mouse or devote themselves to artistic painting.
BTW PowerShell sucks for typing, and bash for windows is like a travesty shell4 -
A "safe" Ubuntu update decided to fuck with my AMD drivers and after rebooting, a nostalgic black emergency terminal greeted me with some cryptic message containing hex code as if any mortal user could make sense of it.
To add insult to injury, local mirrors don't have 18.04 which makes apt vomit errors during software installation.
How the hell does the most well known distro out there manage to have problems like that?6 -
cmder for windows <3, also waiting patiently for native windows terminal! What you guys think of the new announcement from Microsoft about the new terminal?
(in before *laughs in linux)2 -
So a few weeks ago my colleague needed to generate some self signed certificates for our web application, we're working on.
I've sent him some instructions on how to do that. No big deal, few terminal commands.
The only trick was the commands were written for linux and we're using windows.
So... my colleague calls me, having some issues with certificates. He explains to me what commands he managed to execute, etc. There was also command "sudo" included.
He inputs the command to terminal and... terminal eats it?! Wtf?
So long story short he managed to install "sudo" for windows powershell terminal :D. It basically just gives you some UAC popup confirmation dialog and then executes the command.4 -
I think, sometimes, I just love working. Even if it's a holiday.
It's like a refreshment.
**Working from Resort at Tiger Reserve**
Disclaimer: top is running in the terminal. Not revealing the actual work going on the terminal.
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Why the fuck can't I switch fuckimg tabs in the Ubuntu terminal with the fucking keybord? I use the terminal, my hands are both on the keyboard not on the fucking mouse! Fuck!
(If there is a shortcut, please let me know)7 -
What terminal font and om-my-zsh theme are you using? I'm using Inconsolata font and bullet-train theme 😎3
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My professor bored to just seeing terminal line of my project cause they can't get it.. so I did this:
http://lookpic.com/O/i2/...
Attached link because image is not uploading1 -
During my presentations in class, when I use terminal to navigate through folders, unzip the presentation and related files and open the presentation in LibreOffice, I'm termed to be "showing off" my skills
Why can't people appreciate the fact that I did all that even without lifting my hand off the keyboard and in one third the amount of time!2 -
what's your thoughts about the new windows terminal thingy. Always ran Ubuntu on top of windows in a virtual machine cause college and stuff. but what do you guys think?21
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Hi, everyone.
This is a post created for those of you who want to step up their terminal knowledge, learn new tricks, or just learn the basics.
I found these links that will help you on your path to master the command line on mac.
Links:
1. https://github.com/juanfrans/...
2. https://medium.com/@manujarvinen/...
3. https://computers.tutsplus.com/tuto...
4. https://lifehacker.com/a-command-li...
I hope you found these links useful and you learned one or two tricks!
I appreciate it if you leave a comment and Rant++ this post.3 -
I hate that when developing on Windows I need like four different terminals. CMD, MINGW64/Cygwin/MSYS2, PowerShell. Each one has different functionality:
CMD - basic Windows commands
MINGW64 - emulates Linux terminal with frequent Linux commands and great support for Git
Powershell - access Windows COM, .NET etc.
Now there are solutions that attempt to solve this like Cmder (which is just more user-friendly ConEmu). These are console emulators which wrap all these in one window (with multiple tabs). But they are slow as hell. I have to wait like 10 seconds each time I start a terminal in Cmder, because the emulators need to run some huge startup scripts. But I just need to run one command from this one freaking folder!
Eventually I end up having like 30 different terminal windows open, each one different in functionality and each time I need to do something I must think about which terminal I need and in which folder. Furthermore I have to think about whether to run the terminal as administrator, but I usually forget that, so I have to close the terminal and reopen as admin. Why don't you just add something like su or sudo, Microsoft?
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When you are going to open an existing project, and you find the terminal already open in the project directory, Its makes you so happy.
But after a short moment you close everything.1 -
Someone needs to explain these android terminal emulators to me.
As a kid I had something like it installed on my android 4 back in the days, too. And I was facinated by it and always thought yup, thats linux running right before my eyes.
Now I'm thinking: wait a sec, so you're telling me thats actually Linux running within this dalvik vm stuff on android? Like - how?
I know android runs on linux but is it really that these terminals access the drives/devices/files of the real linux under it?4 -
So much AI everywhere, I use Warp as terminal on macOS and today they introduced AI assistant and now at least if I sudo rm -rf / I can have someone to ask for help fast enough to know how bad I messed up ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Note to self, selecting text to copy it into the paste buffer only works in the terminal. It doesn't work in chrome...2
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What's your favorite monospace font for use in a terminal emulator? I enjoy Fira Mono, myself, but if you're using something you like, I would love to know what it is and why you like it.6
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I don't know how to begin.
But i really appreciate you and your efforts if you do the whole devops job through terminal.
I mean creating, upscaling, downscaling, configure, manage an instance just through terminal.
Big d*ck energy6 -
Guess what I saw while channel surfing on tv. A Linux terminal Channel. There was no one doing anything to it, it was just there.1
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So between Linux distros like Ubuntu, Manjaro, and Fedora the only difference in the Terminal is the package manager right?
Like Ubuntu uses apt-get, Manjaro uses pacman and I think Fedora uses yum (that’s what I’ve been told I could be wrong) but other than that is there any other big difference in the terminal?17 -
For fucks sake Windows. Why can't you just fucking have a sane terminal without fucking with everything.
Installing and using MinGW and CMake is enough of a pain when in a slow VM.
Does curses even work with color in Windows!? The best I've gotten is a shade of grey, and white, and I can't even get the grey back!
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TIL
Ctrl-w tot clear the console Line
Can you believe is was always using Ctrl-c to empty my terminal Line when mistyping?
And out of sheer coïncidence of closing all my tabs, is accidentally die this in my terminal window, and then in was like 'wait What?'11 -
So I know it's possible to run a lot of things from the terminal. Does anyone run their daily driver exclusively on a terminal? Just curious.3
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Linux, you never fail to amaze me!
Started using Arch based Manjaro with xfce de couple of months ago. Everything was mostly fine even though I've never used anything that was based on Arch but it had a learning curve.
Couple of weeks ago I couldn't update my packages, I thought it would fix it by itself but I was wrong as you already probably know.
So yesterday I tried to manually fix it. Famous last words. After a lot of googling, trying some terminal commands - and failing, I see a warning labek on some text on the arch wiki - sudo pacman -Syi --force. I said fuck it and did it. Let's see if it works, I try to install a package, I mistype the name, press backspace - it puts a space instead of deleting?!?!?
I tried restarting, googling - nothing...
Guess I'll switch back to Debian based OSes.5 -
Any better terminal for vscode ? i wanna replace it with powershell !
having many errors just because my system have anaconda navigator !9 -
!rant !dev
So, following up my last rant.
https://devrant.com/rants/2433162
I quit on Friday, this is what I said to my bosses.
"In the last week I had, 2 panic attacks, and I have 2 theories for this, one is that I have underlying psychological problems, the other theory is that we are under an impossible task, I choose to say now that I have to quit because I have psychological issues, but if you are willing to hear my other theory, that involves saying that meeting the deadline is not viable, then I can tell you that, so do want to listen that part?.
Bosses: No, we heard enough, we are going to have your contract terminated in order, and we will let you know when you can come and pick your paycheck."
So, that's them. Now about me and how I re-discovered GTD, or more precisely how I organized my whole weekend using taskwarrior with GTD, and why I think is going to be useful as a freelancer.
Before I feel good about telling you about my weekend I have to tell you a few things about myself.
I am a very impulsive person, I have a lot of energy in short surges, so I have to be able to maximize my activity when I'm in a surge, and I have to maximize my rest when I am not.
That's hard to do, it requires a balanced lifestyle, I am also very prone to being neurotic, and overwhelmed by the amount of stuff that I want to do.
And on top of that, when I am resting, I have surges of things that I want to have, do, or implement, it could be software related, as "Doing an app that will be the Uber of home services", to house improvements like, "I have to fix that leaking roof", and all the sort of stuff that happens in between hardware and software. That surge of consciousness doesn't allow me to have the proper rest that I need before I engage with activities again.
Because of this I have a very cyclic rhythm, with whole weeks burning my energy into doing stuff, and weeks resting doing very little and thinking too much.
Now about my weekend. Friday night I was browsing the web, and a thought came to my head. "The way you use your terminal, says a lot about your personality", and I got curious, so I searched for, "Show me your terminal", and found a post in dev.to to see all kind of nice terminal setups, from the very minimalist to very feature rich oh-my-zsh themes with plugins for git, aws and what not. One of these pictures really got my attention, a guy had set up his terminal to show him, how many task has he done in the day, and how many cups of coffee has he had.
So by investigating how he set up his terminal to show in the prompt the number of successfully completed tasks in the day, I found out that he was using taskwarrior, he was also kind enough to share the source code of his prompt setup, which I bookmarked to later incorporate that into my oh-my-zsh config.
After reading about taskwarrior, I also got a reference to GTD, I don't remember if this was one of those thoughts that I have and follow immediately, or if I read something that led me to a YouTube video summarizing GTD.
In the end, after watching that GTD video, I decided to give it a try to organize my life, and help me find a remote job, keep my house in order, plan my social activities as "hang out with friends", "visit mom and dad", and give the proper amount of attention to my GF, with whom I am deeply in love, and willing to spend the remaining of my years with her.
So my fist task was.
task add Ask for GF's parents blessing.
Which of course I have no intention of doing right now, but is one of the things that I will eventually have to do.
Then it started, I started adding tasks, and things to do, and go through the whole Capture phase of GTD.
Now it is a good time to write a small summary of what I think GTD is.
GTD is a life habit of organizing your life in todo-lists. And it was a very specific core method, that in the video summary that I watched was called CPR.
Capture, Process and Review.
Capture:
When you capture you just add your tasks to a bucket list.
So I took a notebook and started writing down everything that I wanted to have done. I also started to capture ideas as they came up to me, I did this by writing a telegram saved message in my phone, or directly adding it as a task in TW.
Process:
I read my telegram messages and put them into my task warrior list, then I started to organize my tasks into projects, breaking down every task that was not an atomic unit.
* And different projects started to emerge from this. One of them was project:Housekeeping.
And here's my screenshot of what I did this weekend, also the number of projects that I have, and all the things that I have to do in order to have what I think would be a very balanced, fun, and productive life.
You'll be able to see in the screenshot, that there's a blocked task, yes, tw allows you to organize dependencies too, so one task is delegated, and blocked by the delegation task.
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What's your favorite terminal emulator?
On Linux I prefer xterm, because of its bottomless config options all through a really nice xrdb -merge command.
On a Mac I prefer iterm2, again for its galaxy of config options and features.
On Windows, I just use putty or mobaxterm to ssh to a real operating system. :)
How about you?7 -
Typing a quick terminal command. Didn't work. Type it again. Didn't work. Look at your IDE. Goddammit!
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I kid you not, last night had a weird dream. In it, as I walked into my place my girlfriend came up to me with a smile and guess what.... She turned into a terminal.. With green fonts. The vividness of the dream is still fuzzing my mind.3
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Is there any open / close source application that allows creating browser-based tutorials where the left side would have instructions and the right side section would have terminal to execute the code from the tutorial.
There would be a back-end server to execute the command from terminal and send back the result.
Here is the representative screen-shot:
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Okay, stupid question...
Is there are standardized api for manipulating text terminals on linux distros? Something similar to win32's consoleapi.h
Or is there a library that provides such an api?6 -
Hey all
Any terminal fans out there
Need inspiration for my new setup
Would really appreciate a few setup examples with plugins
Currently I am using oh-my-zsh with a few custom plugs3 -
VS Code terminal is so bad... it is basically the worst part of VS Code; the devs can never fix it
The terminal in VS Code breaks for me all the time; it is so easy to break it; all it takes is change the size of the terminal window and bam, it is broken
The devs should either fix their shitty terminal or remove it entirely because it confuses people; I literally see wrong output from my program because of their terminal1 -
What if you could watch anime straight up from you terminal without any BS/ads you get from browser ?
Check this
https://youtu.be/mZqn3Tfzh0A -
root@terminal:~
root@terminal:~# love
-bash: love: command not found
root@terminal:~# happiness
-bash: happiness: command not found
root@terminal:~# peace
-bash: peace: command not found
root@terminal:~# kill
-bash: you need to specify whom to kill
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] pid | jobspec ... or kill -l [sigspec]
😈😈
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When you want examples of the "find" command, you search "terminal find" and Google tells you the nearest bus station. Maybe Google is trying to tell me I need to take a few days off.3
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What are your favorite fonts for your system?
I use SFNS Display and Menlo for the terminal.
Whats your flavor?4 -
Was that a good idea to use unicode symbols in a terminal UI application?
I thought that it'd be okay since TUI library is using unicode for drawing borders. But I'm not sure.
What do you guys say?8 -
Any recommendations for a terminal app for iPad? I only need it to ssh into Linux servers and run stuff/vim/htop/etc., don't really care about fancy features or local device access. Good performance and security would be pluses. I don't mind paying if it's worth it. Coming from Termux on Android the ones I've tried so far (Termius, Shelly, LibTerm) have felt pretty crap so far, though I guess Shelly is the best one out of them.1
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When I shared my terminal setup with a bit of ricing to a Telegram group, someone asked what my terminal was. I said it was just the default terminal on my Fedora 27. Not that XTerm stuff or any other extra terminal emulators. He still insists that every terminal has a name. He's right.
I shall name my terminal "Default".3 -
There are exactly zero developer driven features in osx, sans the terminal. Can anyone disagree? It is the least developer friendly os there is.1
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My search for a solution to mintty terminal compatibility seems to be coming to a close (thank god). I know now that having compatibility with cygwin doesn't make sense as far as I can see. Because it's about mintty not cygwin.
But now I have to figure out how to interface with mintty for setting the non-canonical flag and switching stdin to non blocking mode
Oh boy... It's getting closer!1 -
I'm surprised by how complex simple things could become. Alt+<key> in vim didn't work, so I copied a script from stackoverflow that makes vim poll the esc key every 50ms, if it is pressed together with another key in this period it is interpreted as Alt. My terminal sends esc+<key> instead of Alt+<key> so it works perfectly.
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The worse bugs ain't those that show up on your terminal<If you got those kinda bugs-you're lucky>. But are those that don't show up at your terminal, but still give you the worse version of production.
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Just switched from konsole to xfce4-terminal as my x11 terminal on my debian vm. And boy does it ever look beautiful right out of the box compared to konsole1
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finally!
I've been waiting all week for the Manjaro maintainers to release the next update wave.
Ahh... finally something to do in the terminal :)6 -
Anyone faces Powershell errors in terminal of vscode ?
I get it because of flask and anaconda navigator's stuff !4 -
Spent a bunch of time the other day trying to figure out why my system somehow no longer had php-curl extension on it... post investigation i realised my terminal that was open was on my host system rather than the vm i operate in.
Ao i stood up and went to make mote coffee as it was clearly required. -
No, I don't want to continue typing, that's the end of the curl command. JUST EXECUTE! Why you gotta give me the > all the time?
-me at my computer for the last hour
Just trying to post a .zip to IBM Watson.2 -
!rant
hey you, yeah, you my friend who uses terminal, I'm sure you have already made some useful scripts right? wouldn't you like to share those ideas of your in the comments below? I'd love to steal them 😈😂4 -
I have installed elementary os . Actually it is the dual boot . I installed win10 as primary os and elementary as secondary .every thing is working fine but if I installed any package in terminal means it throws error .
Error "e: unble to locate the package "
I just googled it but it shows for Ubuntu . Not for elementary . Elementary os has launched this year. So help me out to sort this issue20 -
Hey guys. I use the build in terminal of linux and im really confident with it, but i believe there have to be better out there. Any suggestion?4
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Anyone on vscode insiders, did they move the integrated terminal tabs to the left instead of the top where it's always been? Can you change it back?
Edit:
Ok settings > terminal > integrated show tabs can turn it off
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I wish to make most of the terminal with keyboard but again web app development needs constant switching to browser with mouse :/
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!rant
Does someone hates having to look down at the terminal to keep writing?
I don't know if there's a way to keep the text at a certain height, to avoid head movement (sadly, I can't elevate my monitor)
Martin Owens, a.k.a. doctormo
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