Working With Linux: Quick Hacks for the Command Line

251 Pages·2017·22.83 MB·English

by  Petru Ișfan

Table of Contents
Working with Linux – Quick Hacks for the Command Line
Credits
About the Authors
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Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Introduction
Are you ready?
Terminator – the ultimate terminal
Preferences menu
Features
Guake – not Quake!
ClipIt – copy-paste at its finest
2. Productive Shells – Reinvent the way you work
Oh-my-zsh – your terminal never felt this good before!
Basic regular expressions
Pipes and subshells – your shell's salt and pepper
Shell scripting for fun and profit
Shell scripting libraries
3. Vim kung fu
Supercharging Vim
Color scheme desert
Keyboard kung fu
Plugin steroids for Vim
Vim password manager
Instant configuration restoring
4. CLI – The Hidden Recipe
Sed – one-liner productivity treasure
You can run, but you can't hide… from find
tmux – virtual consoles, background jobs and the like
Network – Who's listening?
Autoenv – Set a lasting, project-based habitat
Don't rm the trash
5. Developers' Treasure
The spot webserver
Shrinking spells and other ImageMagick
Go with the Git flow
Merging Git conflicts with ease
From localhost to instant DNS
JSON jamming in the new age
No more mister nice guy
6. Terminal Art
Index
Working with Linux – Quick
Hacks for the Command Line
Working with Linux – Quick
Hacks for the Command Line
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Petru Ișfan
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About the Authors
Petru Ișfan is a full-stack developer, Linux evangelist, open source lover,
and cloud pioneer. Petru has worked all his engineering life in Linux, and
has tried all the major distributions out there. He specializes not only in
software development, but in the whole software engineering stack,
focusing on tools and workflows that enhance developer productivity and
enjoyment.
An early adopter of technology, he uses passion and best practices to
deliver software products, mainly for the Web and the mobile world,
working with clients big and small. He is really enthusiastic about finding
the most efficient and elegant solutions for all problems.
Bogdan Vaida burst onto the training scene in 2009 using extremely old
Powerpoint presentations. Luckily, two years later, he switched to
experiential training and learning by using methodologies that he
practiced devotedly in all of his training. Known for his no-nonsense
approach to getting results, Bogdan has been told that he helps
participants get their own "insanely practical insights."
What does he do? He travels around the world doing experiential training
in fields ranging from video editing to personality typologies and trainer
training. While doing this, he also manages his online courses, which
have over 10,000 students from all over the world.
In 2015, he beat the record for total time spent in airports.
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