Generates a slick looking bar chart of command usage from your .bash_history to learn and share where you’ve been spending your key-presses on the command line.

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This post from Daniel Weibel not only explains how macOS uses an outdated version of Bash, but also how to upgrade to the latest Bash via Homebrew. One thing that many macOS users don’t know is that they are using a completely outdated version of the Bash shell. However, it is highly recommended to use a newer version of Bash on macOS, because it enables you to use useful new features. $ bash --version GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin18) Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. The reason Apple uses this old version of Bash has to do with licensing. Bash 4.0 and newer uses the GNU General Public License v3 (GPLv3), which Apple doesn’t support. There are some discussions about this on Reddit. Version 3.2 of GNU Bash is the last version with a license that Apple is willing to accept, and so it sticks with it.

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A hypervisor that traps Linux system call and translates them into Darwin’s system calls. It can interpret ELF files so Linux binaries run without any modification.

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Quickly peek at a file in the lower 3rd of your tmux session by adding this one line to your .bashrc: peek() { tmux split-window -p 33 "$EDITOR" "$@" || exit; } Don’t forget to set $EDITOR first!

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The closer your development environment mirrors your production environment, the better. And we’re all using HTTPS in production, right? Right?!

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twa is a shell script that audits a given website using nothing but bash, awk, curl, and nc. Throw it in your $PATH and see how your site(s) security stacks up. (Note: requires Bash 4 which is not packaged with macOS because licensing. You can upgrade Bash via homebrew. Learn more here.)

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The aim of Bash Infinity is to maximize readability of bash scripts, minimize the amount of code repeat and create a central repository for a well-written, and a well-tested standard library for bash. It seems to me that by the time you need something as fancy/full-featured as this, maybe the task at hand has outgrown Bash? Cool, nonetheless. 👍

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Saverio Miroddi explains how to write tab-completion scripts in any language, with an example in Ruby, and how to use them in both Bash and Zsh. As is common with well-received blog posts, it even inspired some open source (for making tab completion scripts trivial).

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The overall purpose of Neofetch is to be used in screen-shots of your system. Neofetch shows the information other people want to see. There are other tools available for proper system statistic/diagnostics. Supports almost 150 different operating systems, so odds are it has you covered. Check my results below. Pretty decent uptime for a laptop, no?

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The goal of this repository is to document known and unknown methods of doing various tasks using only built-in bash features. Using the snippets from this guide can help to remove unneeded dependencies from your scripts and in most cases make them that little bit faster. I often start out with a bash script, but as soon as things get complicated I ditch it for Ruby. With this collection in hand, perhaps I can get a bit more done without throwing the baby out with the bash water.

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Bash is not a language where the correct way to do something is also the easiest. If there is anything like a driver’s license for writing bash, it must be rule zero of BashPitfalls: Always use quotes. Bookmark this before you accidentally shoot yourself in the bashing foot.

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A tutorial for adding bash completion to scripts using the bash programmable completion facilities. Why bother? to save users from typing text when it can be auto-completed to help users know what are the available continuations to their commands to prevent errors and improve their experience by hiding or showing options based on what users have already typed I’m a tab-completion junkie, so the more people that know how to do this, the better!

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Amjith shares a simple git alias he uses to resume work from where he left off. Perhaps you’ll find it useful, too.

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