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Theming Bash (O'ReillyNet)

[Posted February 3, 2006 by ris]

O'ReillyNet takes a look at creating and using (bash) shell themes. "Shell themes are shell presets that, when invoked, customize the shell with various useful commands for working on a specific project. For example, I can type Theme perl/nav-menu, and then gain some shell commands that are useful for working on my navigation menu module. Among other things, it will also automatically change my directory to ~/progs/perl/www/Nav-Menu/trunk/module/, where I work on the module."

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Posted Feb 3, 2006 21:39 UTC (Fri) by asamardzic (guest, #27161) [Link]

Interesting reading - I'm usually maintaining a Bash script per each of my projects with needed variables and functions definitions and am sourcing it whenever returning to work to given project; but obviously it is very good idea to organize common stuff somehow.

Theming Bash (O'ReillyNet)

Posted Feb 4, 2006 7:09 UTC (Sat) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link]

Of course, if you really want to theme Bash and other Bourne shells (in a XMMS-skins kind of way), then you want bashish.

Your terminal will never be the same. ;)