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