I wanted to try something new, and what better than a new shell? My usage of shells has been severely limited to Bash, Dash, and (on FreeBSD) Bourne. I decided to give Zsh a try because many people seem to like it. So far I have noticed three differences:
Tab completion doesn’t work in the current [...]
Filed in Linux, under Bash, Linux, Shell, Zsh on July 31, 2008
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I have come up with a few more pacman aliases and decided to share them with you all, just in case they may be useful. I have quite a collection of aliases now, and it is constantly growing as I think of new ways to save time in the terminal. Saving time is something I [...]
Filed in Computing, under .bashrc, Alias, Arch, Bash, Pacman on May 20, 2008
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In my frequent excursions across the Arch wiki, I found a command to recursively remove all orphaned dependancies on your system. I loved this command so much I made an alias for it in my .bashrc and when I ran it… Guess what? I had about 50MB of orphaned dependancies installed - not any more!
This [...]
Filed in Computing, under .bashrc, Bash, Computing on May 19, 2008
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Hello friends! I have just written my first longish Bash script, and it will be very useful in the future. This script uses a series of menus to install and (partially) configure a GUI for Arch Linux after a fresh install. I have yet to test it, as I imagine running a script that fiddles [...]
Filed in Linux, under Arch, Bash, Linux, Script on May 5, 2008
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