Well done! For a first website, this is amazing. I can learn some bash from this site. Also, I want to say it was a pleasure (more relief, really - now 2020-02-13) to read the comments and not be overcome by negative comments. Sometimes even "constructive criticism" misses the goodness in the gigantic effort to make. Your first website and you get on HN! Go YOU!
Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz
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Re: Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz
#62If you're running macOS, remember that built-in bash is from 2007 and won't support all the fancy stuff like ${VAR^}.
Re: Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz
#63I always find the context switch to get to a website jarring, and really really love tools that give me documentation on the command line. For example, I can type "go doc foo.Bar" and instantly read the docs for foo.Bar (where foo is usually resolved to example.com/some/go/package/foo, based on what is in go.mod and installed on the system). So for this, I would really like bash's built-in help to show me all this st…
If you use fish shell, you can use man on the built in shell commamds. It's a nice experience.
Re: Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz
#64Some feedback you probably won't hear from the HN crowd: Give more context to the site for initial visitors. Its going to be more obvious to those who visited from HN but not to those who stumbled upon it somehow. A little blurb at the top saying this is a reference site for bash scripting syntax and maybe why you saw the need for such a thing would do ease people into the site a bit. I hate the popup at the bottom,…
It would definitely be helpful to have more context. I know some bash, but I'm far from an expert. The first thing I see on the page is a list of flags, but no clue what commands these flags are used with. A few usage examples would help a lot.
For example "-e checks if files exists" How? -e filename ? This doesn't work?
Re: Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz
#65I'm a big fan of the design / color scheme.
Re: Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz
#66Very useful! thanks for this
Re: Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz
#67Gotta say thank you for this resource; I'm always using bash for one thing or another, and this will be a helpful site for the future. I've got it bookmarked for just that reason!
Re: Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz
#68Gotta say thank you for this resource; I'm always using bash for one thing or another, and this will be a helpful site for the future. I've got it bookmarked for just that reason!
Appreciated!
Re: Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz
#69If you're running macOS, remember that built-in bash is from 2007 and won't support all the fancy stuff like ${VAR^}.
I'll add a notice about this - thank you for mentioning that.
Re: Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz
#70Very cool, thanks for sharing. Here's some trivial suggestions. - There's a lot of info here, so I think you should aim for curation and conciseness, rather than completeness. For example, in File Test Operators, your first two entries (effectively, the first two entries a visitor sees) is `-e` and `-a`, both of which you describe as "File exists", though for the latter, you write: "(identical to -e but is deprecated…
- I'll be making a section for deprecated stuff and move everything of that sort into one section. Good suggestion.
- I've added a bunch of new fonts to the site, just now. It's a temporary selection of fonts - but include nicer ones like Source Code Pro for code, and a sans-serif for headings and navigation bar.
- Thank you very much for mentioning that. That's a way nicer handle!