Shell Fun

December 2nd, 2019

I love the Linux shell – it’s one of the top reasons to use Linux.

This post lists some geeky additions to make your shell an absolute joy to live in.

zsh

When I first heard that MacOS was moving to zsh I rolled my eyes. Apple’s bash is truly appalling so it sounded like putting lipstick on a pig. Now that I’ve tried it for real (on Linux) I can see it’s really quite an awesome shell and I’ve been converted.

Warning: There does seem to be a bug in the up-arrow history, it forgets where the string starts or something… this might just be my machine, but look out for it and if it bugs you too much just revert to bash.

Getting started is simple, although wait until you in…
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Shell Fun II – The Geekening

December 1st, 2019

Ok, now you have the best shell going, it’s time to add some bling.  None of these products really rely on zsh but while we’re tweaking the shell it’s a good time to cow things up 😉

cowsay

Everyone needs a message delivered via ascii art cow right?

sudo apt install cowsay

Hint: You can also use cowthink, just in case you want the cow to use it’s inside voice 😉

lolcat

Nothing to do with the memes, this is just “cat” but with extra lolz.  It’s a ruby jem, if you don’t know what that is please search for it.  I’m guessing most people reading my site do.

Basically lolcat outputs text in a rainbow.  In small doses it’s quite nice.

gem ins…
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