Sharing your SSH commandline • Hacker News Board

Re: Sharing your SSH commandline

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Post by mahmud » Sat, May 02, 2009, 10:56 PM UTC

bemmu wrote: post #3

I've been wondering if it might be interesting to see webcasts of just smart people coding some project from start to finish, say one hour webcast per day.

It would give the wrong impression of wizardry. One hour of flow is but the climax of weeks of pondering, small tests and trials, and general weirdness where one is zoned out of the rest of life :-P Almost like showing a video of an olympic 100 meter dash to an alien specie and calling it "autonomous motion of bi-pedal earthlings".

What you might be interested in, however, is how various programmers setup their environment for optimal hacking.

(fwiw, I just came back from the coffee shop where I wrote a faster lookup database for the Mindmax GeoCity IP database with CLISP and notepad, to save on laptop battery. Hardly my typical work environment but easily my finest work in weeks :-)

Re: Sharing your SSH commandline

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Post by mahmud » Sat, May 02, 2009, 11:01 PM UTC

teilo wrote: post #2

I love screen. Still don't know half of what it can do.

Add top(1) to that list (with the rest of the procps, psmisc and lavaps packages.)

I have been indoctrinated in the "unix" way, and knew only the bare, portable posix minimum. The GNU extensions of those packages are utterly delightful. Think: color coded process listing, thread grouping and various other debugging goodies :-)

Re: Sharing your SSH commandline

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Post by w1ntermute » Sun, May 03, 2009, 1:15 AM UTC

KC8ZKF wrote: post #7

Two people typing into the same shell at the same time, both as root? I don't think this is a good idea.

There is support for giving certain users read-only access, so that's not a problem.

Re: Sharing your SSH commandline

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Post by Xichekolas » Sun, May 03, 2009, 1:19 AM UTC

silentbicycle wrote: post #8

teilo wrote: post #2

I love screen. Still don't know half of what it can do.

http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/screen/screen_toc.html Screen is the sort of program where it's really good to skim through its manual now and then. There's tons of stuff in there that most people don't know it can do. The scroll/copy and paste functionality functionality (under M-[ and M-], where meta is C-a or ` or whatever) is really handy, you can change settings interactively via the : prompt, and you can also i…

Good way to explore the screen manual:

  screen man screen

Read enough to figure out how to list and switch between virtual terminals, and then you can play around and come back to the man page easily.

Re: Sharing your SSH commandline

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Post by silentbicycle » Sun, May 03, 2009, 1:59 AM UTC

silentbicycle wrote: post #8

teilo wrote: post #2

I love screen. Still don't know half of what it can do.

http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/screen/screen_toc.html Screen is the sort of program where it's really good to skim through its manual now and then. There's tons of stuff in there that most people don't know it can do. The scroll/copy and paste functionality functionality (under M-[ and M-], where meta is C-a or ` or whatever) is really handy, you can change settings interactively via the : prompt, and you can also i…

Oh - forgot M and _, which watch a buffer for output and 30 sec. (by default) of silence, respectively. They print a message and flag it with an @ in the status line (if any). M combines well with tail -f on log files.