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Hello Zsh! Part 2

Fosscasts - 2009-12-26 - free

In the second half of our 2 part series on Zsh, we look at globbing and using Zsh's qualifiers. This can be combined with the completion from episode 16 for some super powerful shell bliss. Watch this screencast


Hello Zsh! Part 1

Fosscasts - 2009-12-18 - free

Zsh is a great alternative to Bash and other Unix shells. It has programmable completion, paging, and many other great features. We'll take a good look at paging and the completion that Zsh offers in this episode and explore more in the next episode. As mentioned in the episode, the... Watch this screencast


Customizing Your Bash Command Prompt

Fosscasts - 2009-10-23 - free

The Bash command prompt can be fairly dull by default. In this episode we add some color to help differentiate between files, executables, symlinks, and directories. We'll also change the format of the command prompt with the current time and better formatting. Watch this screencast


Remapping CAPSLOCK and CONTROL

Fosscasts - 2009-09-25 - free

One of the best changes I've ever made to my computing work flow is swapping my CAPS and CTRL keys. It is much easier on your pinky to hit the CAPS key instead of the standard mapping for CTRL and the CTRL key is used exponentially more than CAPS. In... Watch this screencast