Pimp my terminal

My tips and tricks presentation for unix day at DEIUC, Coimbra

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1. Pimp my terminal A tale of how I reached satisfactory console karma
2. $ whoami • Software engineer • /home/dei2001/mmachado • sciencematters.io • Previously 9y @IPNlis • g ‘miguel laginha’
3. | Summary • Premisses • Terminal vs iTerm2 • Bash vs Zsh vs fish shell • Pimpin' time • Tips and tricks
4. Why are $(we) here?
5. “terminal” indeed.com job trends
6. “cloooouuuuud” indeed.com job trends
7. “PaaS” indeed.com job trends
8. “docker” indeed.com job trends
9. Which terminal app to use?
12. Which shell? ps -o comm $$
13. Shell options $ Bash # default $ Zsh # awesome $ Fish shell # so awesome it hurts
14. Let’s start pimpin’ #copypaste
15. # first and foremost $ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https:// raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/ master/install)"
16. # plus.. homebrew-cask! $ brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask
17. # use homebrew to install zsh $ brew install zsh $ chsh -s `which zsh` $ vim ~/.zshrc # hack away
18. # install oh my zsh $ curl -L http://install.ohmyz.sh | sh $ vim ~/.zshrc # hack away
19. # Zsh syntax highlighting $ cd ~/.oh-my-zsh && git clone git:// github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax- highlighting.git $ source ~/.oh-my-zsh/zsh-syntax- highlighting/zsh-syntax-highlighting.zsh
20. # Z $ brew install z $ . `brew —prefix`/etc/profile.d/z.sh # outdated! Z is now a oh-my-zsh plugin
21. # Power vim with plugins $ curl -L https://bit.ly/janus-bootstrap | bash
22. # Pimp iTerm2 $ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ chriskempson/tomorrow-theme/master/iTerm2/ Tomorrow%20Night.itermcolors
23. Tips and tricks #mac
24. $ open .
25. $ cat .zshrc | pbcopy $ pbpaste >> .zshrc_backup
26. $ mdfind -onlyin ~/Documents report
27. $ say “This is probably useless” $ brew update && brew upgrade && say “finished brewing”
28. What else? #cool stuff
29. # curl.io https://curl.io # do it live http://doitlive.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ # ascii cinema https://asciinema.org
30. «Never settle» Productivity matters.
31. $ Thank you_
 
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