Terminal on Ricky

How Terminals Work

Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:11:33 +0800

How Terminals Work

iTerm2 features I find useful

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 08:52:00 +0800

iTerm2 features I find useful

Show Timestamps ==> ⌘+Shift+E
Alert on next prompt ==> ⌘+Option+A
Jump between prompts ==> ⌘+Shift+Down
Hotkeys to scroll one line at a time ==> ⌘+Up and ⌘+Down
Rearrange tabs with hotkeys ==> Ctrl+Shift+B and Ctrl+Shift+F

Rules that terminal programs follow

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 08:45:00 +0800

“Rules” that terminal programs follow
rule 1: noninteractive programs should quit when you press Ctrl-C
rule 2: TUIs should quit when you press q
rule 3: REPLs should quit when you press Ctrl-D on an empty line
rule 4: don’t use more than 16 colours
rule 5: vaguely support readline keybindings
- rule 5.1: Ctrl-W should delete the last word
rule 6: disable colours when writing to a pipe
rule 7: - means stdin/stdout

A python script that allows your terminal to snow.

Sun, 24 Dec 2023 15:40:00 +0800

A python script that allows your terminal to snow.

docker run --rm -ti sontek/snowmachine tree --color rainbow --particle "*" --snow true --lights-color rainbow

Use terminal and SSH to remote host

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 22:22:00 +0800

Use terminal and SSH to remote host

1. Modern Terminals

2. Open terminal in macOS

⌘ + space open Spotlight
search terminal.app
press ↩

3. SSH to remote host

ensure the private key file path.
enter the command in the terminal: ssh -i /path/to/private_key.pem ubuntu@ubuntu.host.com

Rust Easy! Modern Cross-platform Command Line Tools to Supercharge Your Terminal

Fri, 13 Jan 2023 16:51:01 +0800

Rust Easy! Modern Cross-platform Command Line Tools to Supercharge Your Terminal

Alacritty

Alacritty is a cross-platform modern terminal emulator with sensible defaults. It is GPU accelerated, super fast, and highly configurable. You can use it on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

bat

bat is one of my favorite tools from this list. It’s a replacement for cat.

dust

Dust is an alternative for the du command. It is fast and has a better UX with nice visualization for disk usage.

Super easy! Build a beautiful and handy zsh terminal

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 08:44:18 +0800

Style PowerShell with oh-my-posh

Thu, 10 Dec 2020 13:15:59 +0800

Style PowerShell with oh-my-posh

# This downloads and installs the posh-git and oh-my-posh modules from PowerShell Gallery.
# The former shows Git info in the prompt, and the latter provides the themes.
Install-Module posh-git -Scope CurrentUser
Install-Module oh-my-posh -Scope CurrentUser


# Next, edit the PowerShell profile loaded at startup. In PowerShell, $PROFILE shows the current
# user's profile path. The file may not exist; run the commands below to create it and open it.
if (!(Test-Path -Path $PROFILE )) { New-Item -Type File -Path $PROFILE -Force }
notepad $PROFILE

Add the following commands to the profile file: