Terminus Bash



Terminus Bash

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I am trying to get Terminus to open git-bash instead of the windows command prompt with absolutely zero luck. Any one know how this can be done? Bash is a Unix shell and command language written by Brian Fox for the GNU Project as a free software replacement for the Bourne shell. Phase one a/s usb devices driver download for windows. First released in 1989, it has been used as the default login shell for most Linux distributions. A version is also available for Windows 10 via the Windows Subsystem for Linux. It is also the default user shell in Solaris 11. #!/bin/bash #Authenticate Terminus terminus auth:login #Provide the target site name (e.g. Your-awesome-site) echo 'Provide the site name (e.g. Your-awesome-site), then press ENTER to reset the Dev environment to Live:'; read SITE; #Set the Dev environment's connection mode to Git echo 'Making sure the environment's connection mode is set to. Step 1: Fire up Terminal.app. Step 2: Type nano.bashprofile – This command will open the.bashprofile document (or create it if it doesn’t already exist) in the easiest to use text editor in Terminal – Nano. Step 3: Now you can make a simple change to the file. Paste these lines of code to change your Terminal prompt. Bash Shell Scripting Definition Bash Bash is a command language interpreter. It is widely available on various operating systems and is a default command interpreter on most GNU/Linux systems. The name is an acronym for the ‘Bourne-Again SHell’. Shell Shell is a macro processor which allows for an interactive or non-interactive command.

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The first cross platform terminal for Sublime Text.

Unix shellCmd.exe
Terminal in panelSupport showing images

This package is heavily inspired by TerminalView. Compare with TerminalView, this has

  • Windows support
  • continuous history
  • easily customizable themes (see Terminus Utilities)
  • unicode support
  • 256 colors support
  • better xterm support
  • terminal panel
  • imgcat support (PS: it also works on Linux / WSL)

Installation

Package Control.

Getting started

  • run Terminus: Open Default Shell in Tab

  • OdatNurd has made several videos on Terminus. See, for examples,

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etIJMVIvVgg (most up to date)

Shell configurations

Terminus comes with several shell configurations. The settings file should be quite self explanatory.

User Key Bindings

You may find these key bindings useful. To edit, run Preferences: Terminus Key Bindings.Check the details for the arguments of terminus_open below.

  • toggle terminal panel
  • open a terminal view at current file directory

or by passing a custom cmd, say ipython

  • open terminal in a split view by using Origami's carry_file_to_pane
  • ctrl-w to close terminal

Following keybinding can be considered if one wants to use ctrl+w to close terminals.

User Commands in Palette

  • run Preferences: Terminus Command Palette. Check the details for the arguments of terminus_open below

or by passing custom cmd, say ipython

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  • open terminal in a split tab by using Origami's carry_file_to_pane

Terminus Build System

It is possible to use Terminus as a build system. The target terminus_exec is a drop in replacement of the default target exec. It takes exact same arguments as terminus_open except that their default values are set differently.

terminus_cancel_build is used to cancel the build when user runs cancel_build triggered by ctrl+c (macOS) or ctrl+break (Windows / Linux).

The following is an example of build system define in project settings that run a python script

The same Hello World example could be specified via a .sublime-build file.

Instead of cmd, user could also specify shell_cmd. In macOS and linux, a bash shell will be invoked; and in Windows, cmd.exe will be invoked.

Alt-Left/Right to move between words (Unix)

  • Bash: add the following in .bash_profile or .bashrc

  • Zsh: add the following in .zshrc

Some programs, such as julia, do not recognize the standard keycodes for alt+left and alt+right. You couldbind them to alt+b and alt+f respectively“json[ { 'keys”: [“alt+left”], “command”: “terminus_keypress”, “args”: {“key”: “b”, “alt”: true}, “context”: [{“key”: “terminus_view”}] }, { “keys”: [“alt+right”], “command”: “terminus_keypress”, “args”: {“key”: “f”, “alt”: true}, “context”: [{“key”: “terminus_view”}] }]

The fields cmd and cwd understand Sublime Text build system variables.

  • the setting view.settings().get('terminus_view.tag') can be used to identify the terminal and

  • keybind can be binded with specific tagged terminal

  • text can be sent to the terminal with

If tag is not provided or is None, the text will be sent to the first terminal found in the current window.

FAQ

Memory issue

It is known that Terminus sometimes consumes a lot of memory after extensive use. It is because Sublime Text keeps an infinite undo stack. There is virtually no fix unless upstream provides an API to work with the undo stack. Meanwhile, users could execute Terminus: Reset to release the memory.

Color issue when maximizing and minimizing terminal

It is known that the color of the scrollback history will be lost when a terminal is maximized or minimized from or to the panel. There is no fix for this issue.

Terminal panel background issue

If you are using DA UI and your terminal panel has weired background color,try playing with the setting panel_background_color in DA UI: ThemeSettings.

Cmd.exe rendering issue in panel

Due to a upstream bug (may winpty or cmd.exe?), there may be arbitrary empty lines inserted between prompts if the panel is too short. It seems that cmder and powershell are not affected by this bug.

Acknowledgments

This package won't be possible without pyte, pywinpty and ptyprocess.

If you have to do it more than once, automate it!

You will often find yourself repeating a single task on Linux over and over again. It may be a simple backup of a directory or it could be cleaning up temporary files or it can even be cloning of a database.

Automating a task is one of the many useful scenarios where you can leverage the power of bash scripting.

Let me show you how to create a simple bash shell script, how to run a bash script and what are the things you must know about shell scripting.

Create and run your first shell script

Let’s first create a new directory named scripts that will host all our bash scripts.

Now inside this 'scripts directory', create a new file named hello.sh using the cat command:

Insert the following line in it by typing it in the terminal:

Press Ctrl+D to save the text to the file and come out of the cat command.

You can also use a terminal-based text editor like Vim, Emacs or Nano. If you are using a desktop Linux, you may also use a graphical text editor like Gedit to add the text to this file.

So, basically you are using the echo command to print 'Hello World'. You can use this command in the terminal directly but in this test, you'll run this command through a shell script.

Now make the file hello.sh executable by using the chmod command as follows:

And finally, run your first shell script by preceding the hello.sh with your desired shell “bash”:

You'll see Hello, World! printed on the screen. That was probably the easiest Hello World program you have ever written, right?

Here's a screenshot of all the steps you saw above:

Convert your shell script into bash script

Confused? Don't be confused just yet. I'll explain things to you.

Bash which is short for “Bourne-Again shell” is just one type of many available shells in Linux.

A shell is a command line interpreter that accepts and runs commands. If you have ever run any Linux command before, then you have used the shell. When you open a terminal in Linux, you are already running the default shell of your system.

Bash is often the default shell in most Linux distributions. This is why bash is often synonymous to shell.

The shell scripts often have almost the same syntaxes, but they also differ sometimes. For example, array index starts at 1 in Zsh instead of 0 in bash. A script written for Zsh shell won't work the same in bash if it has arrays.

To avoid unpleasant surprises, you should tell the interpreter that your shell script is written for bash shell. How do you do that? You use shebang!

The SheBang line at the beginning of shell script

The line “#!/bin/bash” is referred to as the shebang line and in some literature, it’s referred to as the hashbang line and that’s because it starts with the two characters hash ‘#’ and bang ‘!’.

When you include the line “#!/bin/bash” at the very top of your script, the system knows that you want to use bash as an interpreter for your script. Thus, you can run the hello.sh script directly now without preceding it with bash.

Adding your shell script to the PATH (so that it can be run from any directory)

You may have noticed that I used ./hello.sh to run the script; you will get an error if you omit the leading ./

Bash thought that you were trying to run a command named hello.sh. When you run any command on your terminal; they shell looks for that command in a set of directories that are stored in the PATH variable.

You can use echo to view the contents of that PATH variable:

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The colon character (:) separates the path of each of the directories that your shell scans whenever you run a command.

Linux commands like echo, cat etc can be run from anywhere because their executable files are stored in the bin directories. The bin directories are included in the PATH. When you run a command, your system checks the PATH for all the possible places it should look for to find the executable for that command.

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If you want to run your bash script from anywhere, as if it were a regular Linux command, add the location of your shell script to the PATH variable.

First, get the location of your script's directory (assuming you are in the same directory), use the PWD command:

Use the export command to add your scripts directory to the PATH variable.

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Notice that I have appended the 'scripts directory' to the very end to our PATH variable. So that the custom path is searched after the standard directories.

The moment of truth is here; run hello.sh:

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It works! This takes us to end of this tutorial. I hope you now have some basic idea about shell scripting.

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Since I introduced you to PATH variable, stay tuned for the next bash scripting tutorial where I discuss shell variables in detail.

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