Hacker News with Generative AI: Shell

Better Shell History Search (tratt.net)
I spend an awful lot of my day in Unix terminals running shell commands. For some reason, the variance in efficiency between different people when using the shell is huge: I know people who can run rings around me, and I’ve come across more than one paid professional who doesn’t use the “up” key to retrieve the previous command.

Shell, Unix, Efficiency, Productivity, Command Line

212 points by ltratt 7 days ago | 93 comments

Better Shell History Search (tratt.net)
I spend an awful lot of my day in Unix terminals running shell commands. For some reason, the variance in efficiency between different people when using the shell is huge: I know people who can run rings around me, and I’ve come across more than one paid professional who doesn’t use the “up” key to retrieve the previous command.

Shell, Unix, Productivity

65 points by todsacerdoti 8 days ago | 24 comments

Exec-path-from-shell: Make Emacs use the $PATH set in your shell (github.com/purcell)
A GNU Emacs library to ensure environment variables inside Emacs look the same as in the user's shell.

Emacs, Programming, Shell, Environment Variables, Software

6 points by fanf2 10 days ago | 0 comments

Fish 4 (github.com/fish-shell)
fish’s core code has been ported from C++ to Rust (#9512). This means a large change in dependencies and how to build fish. However, there should be no direct impact on users. Packagers should see the For Distributors section at the end.

Programming, New Releases, Software, Open Source, Shell

312 points by SteveHawk27 33 days ago | 106 comments

Xonsh – A Python-powered shell (xon.sh)
Xonsh is a modern, full-featured and cross-platform python shell. The language is a superset of Python 3.6+ with additional shell primitives that you are used to from Bash and IPython. It works on all major systems including Linux, OSX, and Windows. Xonsh is meant for the daily use of experts and novices.

Python, Shell, Programming, Cross-Platform

171 points by GTP 39 days ago | 47 comments

Schemesh: Fusion between Unix shell and Lisp REPL (github.com/cosmos72)
Schemesh is an interactive shell scriptable in Lisp.

Lisp, Shell, Programming Languages, Unix

177 points by cosmos0072 45 days ago | 50 comments

Show HN: Mapping the Unix Magic Poster – An Interactive Annotation Project (drio.github.io)
The su command (short for “substitute user” or “switch user”) is used to start a shell under a different user account. Typically, one of the most common uses of su is switching to the superuser (root) account to gain administrative privileges.

Unix, Shell, Security, Programming, Interactive Projects

77 points by drio 49 days ago | 29 comments

Show HN: Integrate LLM in Your Shell (github.com/soheil)
Integrate LLM in your shell.

Shell, Programming, Open Source

7 points by soheil 71 days ago | 3 comments

The history and use of /etc/glob in early Unixes (utoronto.ca)
One of the innovations that the V7 Bourne shell introduced was built in shell wildcard globbing, which is to say expanding things like *, ?, and so on.

Unix, Operating Systems, History, Shell, Programming

68 points by zdw 79 days ago | 47 comments

Bash Completion (2023) (erikarow.land)
This week, I’ve been exploring how tab completion works in Bash.

Bash, Linux, Command Line, Shell, Productivity

8 points by wonger_ 82 days ago | 1 comments

Oils 0.24.0 – Closures, Objects, and Namespaces (oilshell.org)

Programming, New Releases, Shell, Software

15 points by todsacerdoti 87 days ago | 0 comments

Fish has been ported to Rust (github.com/fish-shell)
fish’s core code has been ported from C++ to Rust (#9512). This means a large change in dependencies and how to build fish. Packagers should see the For Distributors section at the end.

Programming, Rust, Shell, Open Source, Software

66 points by tcfhgj 100 days ago | 4 comments

Fish shell announces 4.0 release (lwn.net)
fish is a smart and user-friendly command line shell with clever features that just work, without needing an advanced degree in bash scriptology. Today we are announcing an open beta, inviting all users to try out the upcoming 4.0 release.

Command Line, Open Source, Shell, Software, Beta

65 points by askl 103 days ago | 16 comments

Evolution of Shells in Linux (2011) (developer.ibm.com)

Linux, Operating Systems, History, Shell

33 points by todsacerdoti 142 days ago | 6 comments

Rash – The Reckless Racket Shell (rash-lang.org)
Rash is a language, library, and shell REPL for Racket.

Programming Languages, Racket, Shell, REPL

4 points by richardfontana 151 days ago | 0 comments

Modern Path Environment Variable (izissise.net)
The PATH environment variable is read by the shell or libc to find and execute programs, this is how the shell can find /bin/ls when ls is typed in a terminal.

Operating Systems, Linux, Shell, Programming, Environment Variables

6 points by ingve 170 days ago | 2 comments

Lish Shell (github.com/nibbula)
This repository has been archived by the owner on Sep 25, 2024. It is now read-only.

Software, Shell, Github

12 points by todsacerdoti 189 days ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Sol – A de-minifier for shell programs (github.com/noperator)
A de-minifier (formatter, exploder, beautifier) for shell one-liners.

Shell, Programming, Tools, Open Source

147 points by noperator 197 days ago | 24 comments

A Spreadsheet and a Debugger Walk into a Shell (arcan-fe.com)
Here we continue the series of posts on the development of a command-line shell which defies terminal emulation by using the display server API locally and a purpose built network protocol remotely.

Shell, Network Protocol

12 points by todsacerdoti 198 days ago | 0 comments

Reasons I still love the fish shell (jvns.ca)
I wrote about how much I love fish in this blog post from 2017 and, 7 years of using it every day later, I’ve found even more reasons to love it. So I thought I’d write a new post with both the old reasons I loved it and some reasons.

Shell, Operating Systems, Programming, Software, Productivity

56 points by robenkleene 201 days ago | 33 comments

Shell Has a Forth-Like Quality (2017) (oilshell.org)

Shell, Programming Languages, Open Source

31 points by rrampage 209 days ago | 3 comments

Show HN: Shelly – A pure and vanilla shell-like interface for the web (github.com/galvao-eti)

Show HN, Web Development, User Interfaces, Shell

33 points by ergalvao 211 days ago | 12 comments

Shell.how: Explain Shell Commands (shell.how)

Shell, Learning Resources, Education

116 points by thunderbong 221 days ago | 38 comments

oh-my-posh: The most customisable and low-latency cross platform/shell prompt (github.com/JanDeDobbeleer)