May 13, 2010 0
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I’m in the middle of putting together packages for the analog call generator my startup is building.
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The process for building debian packages is actually very well documented, though many of the tutorials you will find are aimed at people who are packaging third-party software instead of their own.
Also, I’m running on Debian’s Lenny, and I [...]
Feb 15, 2010 0
Exploring zsh features made me want to figure out some of the history-editing wizardry. (Bash has similar history tricks, I just never bothered to dive too deeply into them.)
If you want to experiment with history expansion a bit, you can echo the result instead of executing it:
hostname:~/dir% ls /some/long/path/to/file_0.1-2_i386.changes
hostname:~/dir% echo !?ls?:s/-2/-3/
echo ls /some/long/path/to/file_0.1-3_i386.changes
In this case, [...]
Feb 1, 2010 3
Since the beginning of time, all the cool kids have had really cool shell prompts. It’s a great place to display helpful information, and zsh has features that let you have a flexible, informative, unobtrusive prompt.
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Snippet from my .zshrc:
# This controls what the line editor considers a word. By default it
# includes ‘/’, which makes it so that when I M-del (attempting to erase
# a directory in a path), I erase the whole path. Annoying.
# WORDCHARS=’*?_-.[]~=/&;!#$%^(){}<>’ # (default)
WORDCHARS=’*?_-.[]~=&;!#$%^(){}<>’
After living with this for a while, I realize that I should probably [...]
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To get started:
sudo aptitude install zsh
chsh /bin/zsh
That’s pretty simple.
Of course, you’re not running zsh yet… either logout and log back in or just run zsh at the prompt. You’ll get a series of prompts to configure a .zshrc. It only takes a few minutes, so run through the options and save the file.
Next up: setting [...]
Jan 18, 2010 1
The items below are useful systems based on my experience working with a bunch of different software teams at a handful of companies over the past decade-plus. I haven’t bothered to list things like compilers, interpreters, libraries, etc. If you don’t have those, you aren’t making software…
Source control. This almost belongs in the “if you [...]
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Let’s say you have a half-dozen machines at work you want to log into. Instead of setting up a remote forwarding connection from each of those machines, you can have the connection from your main machine perform multiple forwardings instead of just one. This even works if some of the machines don’t support ssh.
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As I mentioned in a previous post on ssh configuration, your config file can specify a variety settings for each server. In fact, the Hosts you use don’t even have to exist! Consider the following snippet in your ~/.ssh/config.
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Local port forwarding is the same as remote port forwarding but works in the opposite direction. An example is the clearest way to explain…
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Ssh tunneling can be a bit mind bending at first, but it’s simple when you get used to it.
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