Has anybody discovered any cool things that can be done in the Terminal? I really want to start playing around with it and learning some useful things that will enhance my user experience.
i got one, think of a command, like say "apachectl". far too long to type out regularly. now, pop into terminal, type "apa" then hit <tab>. Several modern shells, like bash tcsh csh zsh, will fill out a command (or file name) if you start to write it. in fact, they'll fill out a command or file name if you don't even start to write it. pop into terminal, and just type tab. depending on your shell and environment, it will probably throw a large list of files in the current directory, and/or all your programs.
another trick, which you may have already noticed, in csh and tcsh and derivatives, is if you misspell a command, it will try to correct you. example, type "bill gates". it will ask you "kill gates?", because bill is not a known command, but kill is.
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another trick, which you may have already noticed, in csh and tcsh and derivatives, is if you misspell a command, it will try to correct you. example, type "bill gates". it will ask you "kill gates?", because bill is not a known command, but kill is.
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Just sit back and watch.
hours of commodore 64 fun
Originally posted by Brad
While not strictly a "terminal trick", a lot of people enjoy this one:
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Just sit back and watch.
All I want to be is a Unix geek!:-)
Originally posted by superkarate monkeydeathcar
emacs -batch -l dunnet
hours of commodore 64 fun
To bad it's not Zork .. that was a fun game..
(yeah, not too busy at work today)
edit: that is actually a reference to superkarate monkeydeathcar's post.
Originally posted by superkarate monkeydeathcar
emacs -batch -l dunnet
hours of commodore 64 fun
E/W Dirt road
You are on the continuation of a dirt road. There are more trees on
both sides of you. The road continues to the east and west.
There is a large boulder here.
>dig hole
Digging here reveals nothing.
>go west
Dead end
>dig hole
Digging here reveals nothing.
>go east
E/W Dirt road
There is a large boulder here.
>move boulder
I don't understand that.
>kick boulder
I don't understand that.
>hit boulder
I don't understand that.
>eat boulder
You don't have that.
>inventory
You currently have:
A lamp
A shovel
>go east
Fork
You are at a fork of two passages, one to the northeast, and one to the
southeast. The ground here seems very soft. You can also go back west.
>dig hole
I think you found something.
>inventory
You currently have:
A lamp
A shovel
>look
Fork
You are at a fork of two passages, one to the northeast, and one to the
southeast. The ground here seems very soft. You can also go back west.
There is a CPU card here.
>take CPU card
Taken.
>look at CPU card
The CPU board has a VAX chip on it. It seems to have
2 Megabytes of RAM onboard.
>eat CPU card
You forcefully shove a computer board down your throat, and start choking.
You are dead.
You have scored 0 out of a possible 90 points.
ROFLMAO
this is my first time playing... and I choked on a friggen CPU... waaaay to go Zo!
Originally posted by piwozniak
hey can you pick that f****** shovel or what ?!?!?!
(yeah, not too busy at work today)
edit: that is actually a reference to superkarate monkeydeathcar's post.
Yeah, I know! The only challenge in this game is guessing how the computer wants you to type it!
Originally posted by piwozniak
you can also *examine* things, but you know how you get close to a building, how do walk in?
enter building
There is a ferocious bear here!
>examine bear
It looks liek a grizzly to me.
now, what do i do in tha building, i guess something with that ancient computer, and that card but how do you install it?
This is fun
1. Took the shovel.
2. Dug up the CPU card
3. Found some food
4. Fed the food to the bear
5. Found the key
6. Opened door to the building
7. Found three names on the mail bins (Jeffrey Collier, Robert Toukmand and Thomas Stock)
8. Installed the CPU card into the computer
9. Now what?
1. Type "emacs"
2. Hit F10
3. Select "tools" by pressing "t"
4. Select "games" by pressing "g"
5. You get a list of games. Including worm and tetris. Pretty cool!
Originally posted by Luca Rescigno
Well, here's what I did.
1. Took the shovel.
2. Dug up the CPU card
3. Found some food
4. Fed the food to the bear
5. Found the key
6. Opened door to the building
7. Found three names on the mail bins (Jeffrey Collier, Robert Toukmand and Thomas Stock)
8. Installed the CPU card into the computer
9. Now what?
HOW did you installed it?
oh the magic word is PUT
Luca: login
So instead of typing F10 to access the menu in Emacs, use the escape key and the ` key instead. Typed in sequence they do the same thing.
Originally posted by piwozniak
HOW did you installed it?
insert card in computer