Linux Fu: A Warp Speed Prompt
If you spend a lot of time at the command line, you probably have either a very basic prompt or a complex, information-dense prompt. If you are in the former …read more Continue reading Linux Fu: A Warp Speed Prompt
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Optimizing Your Linux Shell Experience
Are you familiar with huffman encoding? That’s where you pick shorter codes for more frequent letters. Morse code is the same way. Shorter characters are the ones you are most …read more Continue reading Optimizing Your Linux Shell Experience
Linux Fu: Alternative Shells
On Unix — the progenitor of Linux — there was /bin/sh. It was simple, by comparison to today’s shells, but it allowed you to enter commands and — most importantly — execute lists of commands. In fact, it was a simple programming language that could make decisions, loop, and …read more