Terminal Tips talk in April

[Jay McGavren]

I'm planning a 20-30 minute talk for next month on being productive in the terminal. This won't be directly about Ruby, although there will be a few Ruby tricks in there, and it will certainly be helpful to Ruby developers.

I don't want to bore people with stuff they already know about, though. Can y'all look this list over and let me know if anything looks too basic or irrelevant? Also, have a look at https://github.com/jaymcgavren/dotfiles, and if there's anything there you'd like to see explained in this talk, let me know!

Bash

• alias
  
• Redirecting output with >
  
• cd -
• Piping output between commands with |
  
• grep
• wc
• ruby -e, -n, -p
• head, tail
• Shell history
  
• Configuration
• Arrow keys, Ctrl-p/n
• Searching with Ctrl-r
• Expansion: !!, ^string^replacement^
• # comments
• Chaining commands with ; and &&
  
• Prompt setup
  
• set -o emacs
• C-a, C-e, M-f, M-b, etc.
• C-k, M-w, etc.
• C-y
• set -o vi
• man bash

Utility tips

• pbcopy/pbpaste/xclip, my custom "cb" wrapper
• less config, less searching
  
• ssh remote commands (other than a shell), config tips
  
• git checkout -
• vi
• emacs
• tmux
• man <utility name>

-Jay

[Elio Grieco]

Looks good.

Though I'd also at least mention:
- the importance of configuring the shell and SSH
- z shell
- oh my zsh
- fish shell
- the fuck command (can be installed with: brew install thefuck)

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[Jay McGavren]

Agreed on ssh/bash configuration and the fuck command.

I haven't heard of a compelling use case for zsh or fish (but then, I haven't been looking). What are their key differences from bash?

-Jay

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