- How long have you been using the terminal?
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Since 2002.
- Which shells do you use?
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zsh (on my laptop/workstation), bash (on servers).
- Do you use your system’s default shell?
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No and yes (was using zsh before macOS made it the default).
- What OS do you use a Unix terminal on?
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macOS, Linux.
- What Terminal emulators do you use?
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Terminal.app, GNOME Terminal.
- Do you use a terminal-based editor?
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Yes, vim.
- Do you customise your terminal’s colour scheme?
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Yes, my current scheme evolved from the 2003 Gentoo default scheme.
- If your terminal get messed up, what do you do?
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Run reset.
- What terminal settings do you customise?
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PATH, environment variables, alias, the prompt, custom functions, history, syntax-highlighting.
- Do you use job control?
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No. Tried it sporadically, but not really my thing, rather using a terminal multiplexer.
- Do you manage your files using the terminal, or a GUI file manager?
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Basic local operations mostly in the GUI. Anything advanced, automated, remote or mass-operations in the terminal.
- Which of these environment variables have you set intentionally?
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PATH, EDITOR, and some others:
% grep export zshrc/zshrc|sed -e 's/=.*//'
export GIT_AUTHOR_NAME
export GIT_COMMITTER_NAME
export TZ
export PERL5LIB
export GOPATH
export LOCKPRG
export SAM_CLI_TELEMETRY
export JAVA_HOME
export RSYNC_RSH
export CVS_RSH
export EDITOR
export USE_EDITOR
export CVSEDITOR
export BROWSER
export LESS
export HOMEBREW_NO_ANALYTICS
export WWW_BROWSER
- Do you use vi mode in your shell?
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Yes.
- How do you navigate files in less?
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/ to search, then mostly spacebar to scroll and the occasional j/k.
- How do you use pipes?
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sort, uniq, tr, sed, find with xargs to parallelise, and awk.
- Do you use a terminal multiplexer?
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screen (still trying to migrate to tmux, eventually).
- What’s the most frustrating thing about using the terminal for you?
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Scripts assuming GNU specific parameters/tools on macOS.
