Terminal: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 14:25, 28 February 2018

The linux terminal is your lifeblood. There are so many - TOO MANY - options. I'll gather a few of my favorite things here.

This is mucho importante to quickly tell which machine you are on:

use figlet and jp2a to create ascii art
update ~/.bashrc to echo the ascii art in a host-specific color, and to persist that color in the prompt
make sure to include an interactive check to avoid the banner if not interactive

See the many examples of .bashrc in the config repo.

top, htop are meh
This must be perfected, it is the answer, it shows a TREE of terminal processes:

watch -n 1 ps fT

Remember this one to drop a dead ssh session!

[enter]~.

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 * use figlet and jp2a to create ascii art
 * update ~/.bashrc to echo the ascii art in a host-specific color, and to persist that color in the prompt
+* make sure to include an interactive check to avoid the banner if not interactive
 See the many examples of .bashrc in the config repo.
-=== Keyboard-driven copy-paste ===
+=== Monitor running processes ===
-HOW DID I LIVE SO LONG WITHOUT THIS!
+* top, htop are meh
-You can do keyboard-driven copy-paste from terminal buffer using screen!
+* This must be perfected, it is the answer, it shows a TREE of terminal processes:
-* Ctrl-A-esc to get into buffer navigation mode
+ watch -n 1 ps fT
-* space to mark the start of the copy buffer (non-column)
-* space to mark the end of the copy buffer
+=== Drop a dead ssh session ===
-* then you can use Ctrl-A-] to paste - wait, wut?  useless... what about X buffer?
+Remember this one to drop a dead ssh session!
-** add this to "your screen .rc file" to send buffer to X clipboard too!
+  [enter]~.
-  bindkey -m ' ' eval 'stuff \040' 'writebuf' 'exec sh -c "/usr/bin/pbcopy < /tmp/screen-exchange"'