http://dryice.name/blog Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:01:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today I found an interesting program, xclip. It could access the X clipboard from command line. It makes the command line life much easier, for example, I have alias -g C=' |tee > (xclip) ' in my .zshrc. Thus a command like ls C will make the file listing of current PWD into the clipboard, ... http://dryice.name/blog/freebsd/xclip/ Well it is said that the most used command in command line is "cd". So it's a good idea to make it as efficient as possible. The tool I find today is apparix. It's like cdargs, but with CDPATH like thing, and don't do fancy stuff like full screen menu. It ... http://dryice.name/blog/freebsd/faster-cd/ Well in my last post I made a script to setup the title of screen window name and/or terminal title name. Now I want something more: I want a wrapper, if I call a command with this wrapper, it will set the title to the command running, and set the ... http://dryice.name/blog/freebsd/zsh-use-function-instead-of-a-script/ While I work on command line, mostly remotely, there're two tools I like very much: settitle and screen. The first one change the terminal titles, so I can know which one to choose when switching among my X windows. The other, screen, well, have got lots of articles about it. ... http://dryice.name/blog/freebsd/settitle-and-screen/ Well I've been using bash since I first met the Unix world. I did some research at that time, maybe 7 years ago. And I know zsh is powerful at that time. However, zsh doesn't support unicode, thus I can't use Chinese, at that time. So I choosed bash. However, things ... http://dryice.name/blog/freebsd/zsh-is-powerful/