Posts Filed in "Bash"

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Jul

Filed in Bash, Mac with View Comments |

One of my daily problems occurs when I’m ssh’d into a remote server and I’m using nano to edit configuration files or quick scripts to dump information. The problem being, that it screws up differently on different systems. So let’s start with the problems: Problem: Using the backspace key doesn’t remove the trailing character, but [...]

26

Jul

Filed in Bash, Code with View Comments |

Recently I ran across a trick on the net. I use iPython quite a bit, and I love how I can type a partial history command, and then use up/down to cycle through the recently used commands/code lines. I thought it would be pretty cool to have this same technique available in the bash prompt. [...]