Command line tools for productive programmers

Post by vbernat » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 11:08 AM UTC

sandreas wrote: post #23

scns wrote: post #8

For his usecase of funky i use ~/.bash_aliases, that way i can easily share them between machines. Eg to quickly add a new one: alias als="nvim $HOME/.bash_aliases && source $HOME/.bash_aliases" Be careful with quoting though, got myself into a situation where every new terminal asked for the root password. Shellcheck found the reason quickly. (edit) Another benefit is that those aliases abstract over differences of…

Instead of creating aliases for .., I use this: function ..() { for i in $(seq 1 $1); do cd ..; done } which enables .. # up 1 dir .. 2 # up 2 dirs .. 42 # up 42 dirs Here are some more: https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/03/unix-shell-tricks/

    # Expand ... to ../..
    function vbe-expand-dot-to-parent-directory-path() {
      case $LBUFFER in
        (./..|* ./..) LBUFFER+='.' ;; # In Go: "go list ./..."
        (..|*[ /=]..) LBUFFER+='/..' ;;
        (*) LBUFFER+='.' ;;
      esac
    }
    zle -N vbe-expand-dot-to-parent-directory-path
    bindkey "." vbe-expand-dot-to-parent-directory-path
    bindkey -M isearch "." self-insert

Post by cranekam » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 11:12 AM UTC

dorianmariefr wrote: post #60

I would suggest https://rubygems.org/gems/ruby-each-line-2 e.g. ps -A | grep ruby | grep fsevent | ruby-each-line "puts l.split.first" | xargs kill -9 cat c | ruby-each-line "puts l.split.first[0..-2]" >> .env.development pbpaste | ruby-each-line "puts l.split.last" | ruby-all-lines "puts lines.map(&:strip).join(',')"

  killall -9 -r ruby.\*fsevent

  awk '{ print(substr($1, 0, length($1) - 1)) }' c  >> .env.development

  awk '{ print $1 }' c | rev | cut -c2- | rev >> .env.development

  pbpaste | awk '{ print $NF }' | paste -sd,

Post by sandreas » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 11:22 AM UTC

ozym4nd145 wrote: post #68

sandreas wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Instead of creating aliases for .., I use this: function ..() { for i in $(seq 1 $1); do cd ..; done } which enables .. # up 1 dir .. 2 # up 2 dirs .. 42 # up 42 dirs Here are some more: https://pilabor.com/blog/2021/03/unix-shell-tricks/

This might be a better alternate to preserve functionality of `cd -` function ..() { cd $(printf '../%.0s' $(seq 1 $1)) }

Post by gen220 » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 11:25 AM UTC

CraigJPerry wrote: post #65

hnlmorg wrote: post #58

> However, if the directory has many files or sub-directories, tree becomes much less helpful: you only see the last screen full of information as files scroll past you. tree | less

Recently i’ve taken to using nnn for anything like this: https://github.com/jarun/nnn - i never used cli file managers but now, it’s up there with my shell, vim & tmux as a core productivity tool. Show me files in this dir: $ n Show/hide details for each: . Filter / search file list: / Navigate subdirs (or parents) with vim or arrow keys. Cd into sub dirs by typing unique chars from dir names: ctrl-n Drop back to she…

Post by dec0dedab0de » Thu, Jul 29, 2021, 11:39 AM UTC

BoxOfRain wrote: post #57

capableweb wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> this is the opposite of the unix way of doing things Which makes sense, this is an article for people on Apple hardware (judging by the installation instructions), so no interest in keeping things "the unix way of doing things"

I have no dog in this fight (I use both Linux and macOS as daily drivers) but it could be argued that macOS has more of a claim to be Unix than Linux since the foundation of macOS comes from NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD whose codebases both ultimately descend from the original Bell Labs Unix, whereas Linux started life completely independently. I'd argue that Linux is more Unixy than macOS in terms of philosophy though, I re…