OS X Command Line Utilities

Post by mattgreenrocks » Thu, May 15, 2014, 3:34 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 falcolas » Thu, May 15, 2014, 3:42 PM UTC

weaksauce wrote: post #135

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…

Instead of doing the sym link think manually there is a great script that is stupid simple to use and only a few lines in your zshrc/bashrc file. It's called jump/mark. I aliased j to jump and added tab completion to zsh and it's made all the difference. Usage Mark . Marks the current directory to be in the jump list. Jump Jumps to that directory. Zsh is a much nicer shell than bash too and there are no glaring incom…

    export MARKPATH=$HOME/.marks
    function jump {
        cd -P $MARKPATH/$1 2> /dev/null || (echo "No such mark: $1" && marks)
    }
    function mark {
        mkdir -p $MARKPATH; ln -s $(pwd) $MARKPATH/$1
    }
    function unmark {
        rm -i $MARKPATH/$1
    }
    function marks {
        ls -l $MARKPATH | sed 's/  / /g' | cut -d' ' -f9- && echo
    }
    _jump()
    {
        local cur=${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}
        COMPREPLY=( $(compgen -W "$( ls $MARKPATH )" -- $cur) )
    }
    complete -F _jump jump

Post by DigitalJack » Thu, May 15, 2014, 3:51 PM UTC

massysett wrote: post #130

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…

Look into getting Emacs in one of its native OS X incarnations rather than using it in the terminal. Emacs is going to have a lot more options for colors (font locking is the Emacs-speak, I think) in its own app than when it's boxed into a terminal. You also get support for multiple "frames" (windows); Vim can't do this at all and I still miss that from Emacs. I use Linux rather than OS X but if you are parked in Ema…

Post by patrickmay » Thu, May 15, 2014, 3:58 PM UTC

nmc wrote: post #12

/usr/local is the default location for user-installed stuff, but I personally like to have my package manager do its stuff in a separate directory. I like the way Fink [1] uses the /sw (software) directory. Does anyone have a valuable opinion on the comparison between Fink and Homebrew — or maybe MacPorts? [1] http://www.finkproject.org

Post by xemoka » Thu, May 15, 2014, 4:13 PM UTC

weaksauce wrote: post #135

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…

Instead of doing the sym link think manually there is a great script that is stupid simple to use and only a few lines in your zshrc/bashrc file. It's called jump/mark. I aliased j to jump and added tab completion to zsh and it's made all the difference. Usage Mark . Marks the current directory to be in the jump list. Jump Jumps to that directory. Zsh is a much nicer shell than bash too and there are no glaring incom…