terminal.md

Terminal

• See also [cli]

• the-art-of-command-line in one page

  • bash trial

• [bash]

• Terminal colours are tricky

  • Getting colors correct in terminals is tricky

Terminal

Do not use the default terminal on any system. This will hinder your productivity.

• Multiplatform
  • Contour Terminal Emulator
    • high dpi - win, linux, mac
  • Alacritty multi-platform terminal
  • WezTerm - is a GPU-accelerated cross-platform terminal emulator and multiplexer written by @wez and implemented in Rust
  • Electron
    • Hyper
    • Terminus
  • Fun
    • edex-ui
• OSX
  • iTerm2

automation - dont copy and paste manually.

• get me a list of all the files in the structure
• now compress them and put them on a webserver

Shells

• Windows
  • cmd
  • powershell
    • PSKoans - A simple, fun, and interactive way to learn the PowerShell language through Pester [automated-testing]
  • wsl (bash)
• Linux
  • Alternative-Shells
  • sh
  • [bash] (5+)
    • (see the bash page for loads of cool tricks/examples for productive developers)
  • zsh

Startup Environment

• ~/.bashrc
• ~/.bash_profile
• autoexec?

tab completion

Video

• Create Vintage Videos Using FFmpeg in 4 Simple Steps
• related
  • Edit videos live with pyhthon - automation [python]

Desktop Environment

• CONSOLE DESKTOP GUIDE
  • Use a terminal for your entire computer
  • tmux (multi window)
  • lynx for internet
  • Word processors, graphs, progress bars

Performance

• "Terminal Velocity", a graphics demo running in the Linux Terminal YouTube 3min
  • If you think that Linux terminals are limited to displaying text, think again!
  • It's quite possible to display graphics with a decent framerate in your terminal. It even works (without sound) over SSH...