What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’

Re:What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’ by lordleft on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:23PM (#34345075)

Great article. It's amazing how much ancient tech still pulsates in our sleek new machines.

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Re:What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’ by szgupta on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @04:42PM (#34345344)

Thanks! Were there any topics in the blog that you think would benefit from more detail in a follow-up post?

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Re:What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’ by bkor on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @05:00PM (#34345591)

Things you might want to add:

a) Escape sequence to set the "dynamic" terminal title

b) how e.g. GNOME notifies you that a long running command has completed

c) how e.g. GNOME asks if you are certain to close a terminal, but only in case you're not in a shell

d) maybe readline or /etc/inputrc

e) bash completions maybe? it's sort of in there already

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Re:What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’ by WalterBright on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @08:05PM (#34347655)

Just like our rat brains still in our heads.

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Re:What happens when you open a terminal and enter `ls’ by mrlonglong on Thursday January 12, 2023 @06:01PM (#34361492)

We aren't descended from rats, though. Lizard brains, maybe?

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