OS X Command Line Utilities

Post by Touche » Thu, May 15, 2014, 12:58 PM UTC

mitchchn wrote: post #66

Monkeyget wrote: post #54

This was supposed to be few lines of remarks. It expanded quickly in relation with my enthusiasm for this topic. I've been investing some time in the command line on my Mac. I am moving from a dilettante going to the shell on a per-need basis to a more seasoned terminal native. It pays off handesomely! It's hard to convey how nice it to have to have a keyboard-based unified environment instead of a series of disjoine…

> Go fullscreen. Not so much for the real estate but for the mental switch. Fullscreen mode is a way to immerse yourself into your productive development world. No browser, no mail, no application notification. Only code. This is an excellent point and one that's not nearly as appreciated as it should be. Fullscreen mode was written off in Lion as an example of Apple dumbing down the platform and making it more like…

Post by Touche » Thu, May 15, 2014, 1:01 PM UTC

huskyr wrote: post #6

Awesome. I knew about `pbcopy`, but i never knew you could also pipe stuff into it. That saves a lot of time saving script outputs to temporary text files and copying!

Post by nvarsj » Thu, May 15, 2014, 1:04 PM UTC

neumann wrote: post #87

Monkeyget wrote: post #54

This was supposed to be few lines of remarks. It expanded quickly in relation with my enthusiasm for this topic. I've been investing some time in the command line on my Mac. I am moving from a dilettante going to the shell on a per-need basis to a more seasoned terminal native. It pays off handesomely! It's hard to convey how nice it to have to have a keyboard-based unified environment instead of a series of disjoine…

Another trick I learned from an older HN comment is to create a .marks directory in your home directory and then add the following to your .zshrc export MARKPATH=$HOME/.marks function jump { cd -P $MARKPATH/$1 2>/dev/null || echo "No such mark: $1" } function mark { mkdir -p $MARKPATH; ln -s $(pwd) $MARKPATH/$1 } function unmark { rm -if "$MARKPATH/$1" } function marks { ls -l $MARKPATH | sed 's/ / /g' | cut -d' ' -f…

Post by js2 » Thu, May 15, 2014, 1:05 PM UTC

Post by wlesieutre » Thu, May 15, 2014, 1:14 PM UTC

bitserf wrote: post #73

Monkeyget wrote: post #54

This was supposed to be few lines of remarks. It expanded quickly in relation with my enthusiasm for this topic. I've been investing some time in the command line on my Mac. I am moving from a dilettante going to the shell on a per-need basis to a more seasoned terminal native. It pays off handesomely! It's hard to convey how nice it to have to have a keyboard-based unified environment instead of a series of disjoine…

Don't need symlinks. Just set the CDPATH environment variable! Also set up case insensitive completion, saves the extra shift press for all those Mac paths.