Why alias commands to sl? The point is for it to be triggered on bad typing.
Also, the man page is worth a look -- http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man6/sl.6.html
Sl: a steam locomotive in your terminal
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Re: Sl: a steam locomotive in your terminal
#12Great, excellent, fun. But, clearly, it should run 'ls' after doing its choo choo?
Well, this forces you to type 'ls' again, giving you another chance to see the awesome locomotive! ;)
Re: Sl: a steam locomotive in your terminal
#13Great, excellent, fun. But, clearly, it should run 'ls' after doing its choo choo?
One could use a shell alias, a function or something similar for that.
Re: Sl: a steam locomotive in your terminal
#14I just installed it on my Raspberry Pi. It's in the Raspian repository too!
Re: Sl: a steam locomotive in your terminal
#15Bonus info:
if you add arguments to sl like -l or -a you get a different locomotive or other effects!
Re: Sl: a steam locomotive in your terminal
#16I added this to Homebrew years ago, for those OS X users.
It is also in MacPorts
Re: Sl: a steam locomotive in your terminal
#17We need one for "got"
Re: Sl: a steam locomotive in your terminal
#18I added this to Homebrew years ago, for those OS X users.
I just installed it, thanks!
Also, brew seems to have added a beer mug emoji to the terminal output when it finishes installing something since the last time I installed anything. I didn't know the terminal (Actually iTerm 2 in this case) even supported that. Neat!
Re: Sl: a steam locomotive in your terminal
#19on os x - brew install sl brings it in.
Re: Sl: a steam locomotive in your terminal
#20Veteran: "You should apt-get install sl."
Newbie: "What does sl do?"
Veteran: (perfectly straight face) "It trains you."