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Runnit – Make Terminal Shortcuts

6 points by delvin9 8y ago

Scarbutt 8y ago
What's wrong with shell aliases? windows users?
- deleted 8y ago
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- fxfan 8y ago
  Windows has powershell which I love on my arch so far and find vastly more powerful than bash ;)
  - pard68 8y ago
    In my personal life I am a Linux-onlyist. But Windows pays my bills so... When I moved into my current job automating sysadmin work for an enterprise I discovered the joy of PowerShell and an analysis of my enterprise Bitbucket account shows that I have committed more LoC of PS than any other language. PS is a joy to code in and would rather write programs in PS. But I still would prefer BASH for oneliners and CLI use.
    - fxfan 8y ago
      Since you mention your public key on the profile- can you link me to your github? I'd like to 'get some inspiration' (cough... Copy ;))
      - pard68 8y ago
        My gh account is github.com/pard68 Not sure if there is really anything of note there. My automation work is all closed source and owned by my company.
- fulafel 8y ago
  A big wart in shell aliases is that you have to reboot all your terminal tabs/windows to see them.
  - pinjasaur 8y ago
    Not _exactly_ true. You just need to re-`source` your dotfiles. For example, in Bash this looks something like `source ~/.bashrc`. I have this aliased to `src`, personally.
    - retr0h 8y ago
      exactly. learn your shell kiddos.
- delvin9 8y ago
  runn will simplify work. Importantly runn is cross-platform :)
voltagex_ 8y ago
I hate having to write this, but this is what happens when you don't understand your shell(s) properly: * Bash: https://mijingo.com/blog/creating-bash-aliases https://mijingo.com/blog/creating-bash-aliases (TLDP documentation was pretty bad) * Powershell: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/set-alias?view=powershell-6 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...
- egwynn 8y ago
  I literally cannot find a shell that I’ve heard of that doesn’t support aliases. Surely some must exist, so I’d be delighted if anyone here could point me towards one.
  - JdeBP 8y ago
    The Thompson shell does not. * https://etsh.nl/ https://etsh.nl/
nothrows 8y ago
> runn cu "curl https://raw.blah/master/bin/runn.js" https://raw.blah/master/bin/runn.js" ; run cu -- vs -- > alias cu="nodejs <(curl -s https://raw.blah/master/bin/runn.js)" https://raw.blah/master/bin/runn.js)" ; cu I dunno man... aha.
serkanyersen 8y ago
when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.
egwynn 8y ago
I clicked on the GitHub repo in the hopes that it was going to acknowledge that shells have aliases built-in but that this is somehow different. I’m afriad to say that appears not to be the case. Worst of all, you can’t even use your shell’s builtins with these “aliases”. For example anyone who uses this and makes an alias with `echo` or `time` in it is going to be pretty confused. EDIT: I hope the OP / author isn’t too put off by the criticism. Props to you for writing something and sharing it, and keep coding! But also take some time to reflect on what you’re building and the context of its use. Cheers!
retr0h 8y ago
... so alias
dogweather 8y ago
The extent of the info on that page is: Run it! $ runn cu Boom! Hard pass.
- miloignis 8y ago
  I think you may have misinterpreted it - the part you're quoting is how to run an alias, the previous couple of sentences are how to create one: Save it $ runn cu "curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shalithasuranga/runn/master/bin/runn.js" Run it! $ runn cu

6 points by delvin9 8y ago

Scarbutt 8y ago

What's wrong with shell aliases? windows users?

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fxfan 8y ago
Windows has powershell which I love on my arch so far and find vastly more powerful than bash ;)
- pard68 8y ago
  In my personal life I am a Linux-onlyist. But Windows pays my bills so... When I moved into my current job automating sysadmin work for an enterprise I discovered the joy of PowerShell and an analysis of my enterprise Bitbucket account shows that I have committed more LoC of PS than any other language. PS is a joy to code in and would rather write programs in PS. But I still would prefer BASH for oneliners and CLI use.
  - fxfan 8y ago
    Since you mention your public key on the profile- can you link me to your github? I'd like to 'get some inspiration' (cough... Copy ;))
    - pard68 8y ago
      My gh account is github.com/pard68 Not sure if there is really anything of note there. My automation work is all closed source and owned by my company.
fulafel 8y ago
A big wart in shell aliases is that you have to reboot all your terminal tabs/windows to see them.
- pinjasaur 8y ago
  Not _exactly_ true. You just need to re-`source` your dotfiles. For example, in Bash this looks something like `source ~/.bashrc`. I have this aliased to `src`, personally.
  - retr0h 8y ago
    exactly. learn your shell kiddos.
delvin9 8y ago
runn will simplify work. Importantly runn is cross-platform :)

voltagex_ 8y ago

I hate having to write this, but this is what happens when you don't understand your shell(s) properly: * Bash: https://mijingo.com/blog/creating-bash-aliases https://mijingo.com/blog/creating-bash-aliases (TLDP documentation was pretty bad) * Powershell: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.utility/set-alias?view=powershell-6 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft...

egwynn 8y ago
I literally cannot find a shell that I’ve heard of that doesn’t support aliases. Surely some must exist, so I’d be delighted if anyone here could point me towards one.
- JdeBP 8y ago
  The Thompson shell does not. * https://etsh.nl/ https://etsh.nl/

nothrows 8y ago

> runn cu "curl https://raw.blah/master/bin/runn.js" https://raw.blah/master/bin/runn.js" ; run cu -- vs -- > alias cu="nodejs <(curl -s https://raw.blah/master/bin/runn.js)" https://raw.blah/master/bin/runn.js)" ; cu I dunno man... aha.

serkanyersen 8y ago

when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail.

egwynn 8y ago

I clicked on the GitHub repo in the hopes that it was going to acknowledge that shells have aliases built-in but that this is somehow different. I’m afriad to say that appears not to be the case. Worst of all, you can’t even use your shell’s builtins with these “aliases”. For example anyone who uses this and makes an alias with `echo` or `time` in it is going to be pretty confused. EDIT: I hope the OP / author isn’t too put off by the criticism. Props to you for writing something and sharing it, and keep coding! But also take some time to reflect on what you’re building and the context of its use. Cheers!

retr0h 8y ago

... so alias

dogweather 8y ago

The extent of the info on that page is: Run it! $ runn cu Boom! Hard pass.

miloignis 8y ago
I think you may have misinterpreted it - the part you're quoting is how to run an alias, the previous couple of sentences are how to create one: Save it $ runn cu "curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/shalithasuranga/runn/master/bin/runn.js" Run it! $ runn cu