Inspired by a colleague, I wrote this (for bash):
https://gist.github.com/archi/2a2331401842c0548fa8de0f69796f...
> up 4
go up 4 folders (=> "cd .." 4 times).
> up
goes up one folder, and you can repeat pressing ENTER to go up one more. Press anything else to drop back to the shell.
Could probably be "better" (e.g. no subshells), but works well for me.
Re:Linux Terminal Goods
by RadiantSecurity on Thursday September 19, 2019 @09:50AM
(#21016118)
Thats cool! I'm not sure where it comes from, but I get similar behavior in zsh with 'cd ....' - similar doesn't happen in bash though.
I mapped 'cd' to 'c' in my bashrc, but while doing it I also mapped 'c' to execute 'ls' as the latter was basically muscle memory whenever I was using cd. The .bashrc function looks like this:
c() { builtin cd "$@" && ls; }
Hey guys, I have the same thing, but I called the command ".." (no it doesn't conflict with the directory). ".." by itself is the same as ".. 3"
.. () {
local arg=${1:-1};
while [ $arg -gt 0 ]; do
builtin cd .. &> /dev/null;
arg=$(($arg - 1));
done;
}Mine is similar, but only does one cd command - to allow better use of `cd -`
up() {
local ups="."
for((i=0;i<${1:-1};i++)); do
ups="${ups}/.."
done
builtin cd "$ups"
}"cd -" is equal to "cd $OLDPWD", so that still works with my function ;)
Though yours looks much nicer ^^"
Ooo, good idea!
I've written aliases like cd2='cd ../..'. similarly cd3='cd ../../..' . Similarly cd4 and cd5. next time I'll think of this!
I agree with powerlevel9k. i still have marginal enjoyment from the fiddly things thought and i've switched to powerlevel10k [1]. Its noticeably faster and the default settings are minimalist enough for me. does not fix the fact that you need to install fonts which I can't get working on some terminals (urxvt).
Re:Linux Terminal Goods
by RadiantSecurity on Thursday September 19, 2019 @09:52AM
(#21016144)
I had issues with urxvt and ended up moving to Kitty (https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty). I'm not impressed with its' autoupdate feature, but it can be disabled. Apart from that a few visual bugs which are probably to do with nvidia the terminal is great. The best feature? Emojis render flawlessly.
I had a proof of concept, but hackernews doesn't support emojis :'(
You can use powerlevel10k with the default system font. It works fine with urxvt without any twiddling.
Re:Linux Terminal Goods
by notyourday on Thursday September 19, 2019 @12:36PM
(#21017878)
What saved my ass more times than I can count is that I make sure that whenever I'm on a production machine my prompt has obnoxious color that makes me want to close that window as soon as possible.
Production root is made even more visually offensive.
Highlights include:
- Bind C-c/C-v to Copy/Paste, bind C-g to sigterm (Note: Breaks docker interactive unless you mount bashrc into /etc/bashrc or similar!)
- Autorun tmux on SSH session
- Syntax/colour highlighting in zsh interactive, I think there's some diff/less/man magic in there too!
- Log all shell activity to .shell_logs (Be _super_ careful with this one, breaking it could prevent you opening an interactive shell
- Useful grep defaults, particularly relevant when using .shell_logs
Bashrc: https://gist.github.com/YoloClin/f4c82a6e693000a2da20e8029a4...
Zshrc: https://gist.github.com/YoloClin/ffd82f441d292ccc5f25c62a80c...
One thing I've lost love for is Powerline9k - Right-aligned data breaks copy/paste functionality, and patching fonts to get UI-arrows is fiddly for little functional value. If I ever need to fiddle with that stuff again, I'll configure a regular theme to do similar and go without the UI-arrow breaks.
I was considering hiding history-relevant log data (such as current system time) to behind a carriage return, something like PS1="$(date)\r$PS1".
I'm interested in hearing others' cool, non-standard hacks!