New colleague in the office.

Him: How do you rename a file in terminal?
Me: Just sudo rm <filename>, rm stands for ReName.

I'm a horrible person.

FUCK

PRESSED CTRL+C IN THE WRONG TERMINAL

BYE BYE HOURS OF WAITING 😞

!rant

Using Linux terminal on Android smartphone

I wish my mind had its own terminal.
Just imagine...

sudo apt-get install English

Friend: "How can I check my ip?"
Me: *opens terminal*
Friend: "is this a virus? Please stop"

Girlfriend (art student): “You’re in CS. Why don’t you use Windows? Macs are terrible for programming.”

Me: “macOS is better for doing command line compilation and shit because it supports Unix terminal commands and stuff with a reliable OS that’s better-supported than most Linux OSes. I also have Windows on my laptop too, for Visual Studio.”

Girlfriend: “Only like 1% of people use command line stuff. Windows is better for programming. I’ve seen a lot of CS majors use Windows.”

Me: “Uh. You watch me use my computer every day. The stuff I do in Terminal takes forever on Windows.”

Girlfriend: “Yeah, but Windows is just better for programming though.”

Help.

the moment you full-screen your terminal, you know that shit got serious

Open terminal, do this
telnet mapscii.me

Have fun

One of the most evil commands to completely screw a Linux terminal user.

alias cd='rm -rf'

Deletes the folder you want to cd in.

Just finished my new homepage! A terminal emulator where you can list ('ls') my projects and then view (cd) them!
I'm sure it's been done before, but it was fun

Sometime I’m developing in Rust and I do something wrong.

Then I look at the terminal and it says...

“You did X, did you mean to do Y”

Then I do it and it works perfectly, and I’m like...

Why do I even have a job if the compiler is this good?

"I have a terminal illness"
*room goes silent*
"so I stopped using the terminal"
*bob throws his keyboard at me*

Among non-programmer friends:

Me: *opens up a terminal window*
Friends: "Dude, are you HACKING?"

Pressing tab for autocomplete in facebook chat then I realised it is not linux terminal

Back at my university, one time I opened a terminal and I got this.

What is another name for a computer virus ? 
=> A terminal illness 

Kids, dont try this at home.

[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo *CLICK*

A.K.A terminal russian roulette.

I opened a terminal.

HACKER MAN.

no matter what OS you run.. your terminal should look sexy as hell

Now this is what I love to see whenever I start the terminal

alias fucking='sudo'

Now swearing at your terminal DOES fix problems.

The first time I met a Terminal.

Me: *updating Ubuntu using terminal*

Non-tech friend:
*looks at my terminal*
WOW! You must me real good at hacking and stuff!

Me: Of course i am, but keep it a secret though.

*Installs SourceTree*
*Tries to use SourceTree*
*Opens terminal*
*Uninstalls SourceTree*

Sometimes my terminal has answers to ALL of my questions ..

A first year student almost shat his pants after looking at my terminal overlay 😅

Good old terminal. You know why.

"Anything that can be done in GUI is better than in terminal"

Yes it's wrong and stupid. Let Microsoft fans disagree.

git status
git add .
git commit -m "Minor changes.."
git push
...
git status
*closes terminal*
...
"Fuck that char in that variable name isn't meant to be a capital!"
*makes change*
git status
git add .
git commit -m "Minor changes.."
git push
...
git status
*closes terminal*

Developers :
Work as efficient as possible!

Also developers :
Pressing the arrow up ⬆️ in the terminal 90 times to find a command that could have been manually typed out in 1 sec

This is what I saw on the Domestic Terminal today. 🤣 Genius!

Share your most useful terminal aliases and functions.

alias gs='git status'
alias gcm='git commit -m'
alias push='git push'
alias pull='git pull'
alias hosts='sudo nano /etc/hosts'
alias glog='git log --graph --oneline --decorate -n 10 --color'
alias mykey='cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | xclip -sel clip'

function mkcd () {
mkdir -p -- "$1" && cd -P -- "$1"
}

As well as one for each major project (lets say 1+ weeks of dev time) to immediately cd to it from anywhere. How about you guys?

Always looking to improve my terminal commands, so am curious what everyone else uses for shortcuts.

I don't understand those who only use terminal for everything...

Just discovered a terminal replacement for windows... And its fine as hell.
It's called cmder and it's got tons and I mean TONS of options to make it perfect for you!

When I update my linux I usually keep the terminal to full screen.
Roommates enter :
Friend1: Now what the fuck did you do? What are these lines?
Friend2: It was a good laptop.
Friend3: So ungrateful.
Me: *faceplam*

Terminal vs GUI

Nice to see something like this in the soulless terminal ;)

Medium Article Title: How to Optimize Your Use of the Terminal

Dev: Oh goody.

Article Content: The terminal is a cli that devs use in order to work at their jobs. It is a very important tool in which… (continued)

Dev: …

WHO IS THIS ARTICLE FOR?? PEOPLE WHO WANT TO GET BETTER AT THE TERMINAL BUT HAVE NO IDEA WTF A TERMINAL IS?

This isn’t high school english class, you can skip the circle jerk introduction.

Biggest terminal hack I've discovered till now which is so fucking obvious I can't believe I literally just started using it:

Executing the date command right before and after another command/series of commands to see how long shit takes.

$ date; command or commands; date

This is incredibly useful when rendering loads of data in screen sessions!

I actually feel rather retarded for only thinking of this now.

Ok I'm not saying this to start something... but...

TERMINAL MASTERRACE!!!!!!!!

My hubby saw me using Secure Shell to install some software on a cloud server I'm using through the terminal. After a few minutes of watching, he said, "Oh, the government better watch out for you!"

I've been unable to successfully convince him I'm not some elite super-hacker like he's used to seeing in movies and NCIS.

Basically everyone who looks at a terminal who doesn't know what it is 🤣

Windows users trying Linux for first time and trying to do anything using terminal

Ha Ha Ha... No one can replace my terminal ever...

What do you do when you buy a second hand netbook and want to play with it in your way home but the internet is veeery bad?

You play Tetris on the terminal! \o/

Linux users, lets share our daily terminal view)
Here is mine

Asking for donations via terminal is a thing? Programmer thing 😎

Terminal + cowsay + lolcat = awesomeness

Introducing TermoBot

A terminal Interface companion for long dev nights

Type the following in your terminal...

curl parrot.live

You won’t be disappointed!

Average linux developer: writes completely fast, optimized code that compiles the first time all via the terminal. He doesn't care.

Also average linux developer: decides to call it Winblows instead of Windows in an attempt to get more people to use linux. He feels like a genius.

Biological name of terminal

Sometimes I forget that not all Terminal commands begin with "git."

git ls
git less fileName.ext
git cd ..

Terminal based role playing game (open source)

Airport logic: laptop bag isn't a bag and terminal = danger.

Started Steam with the terminal and found this gem of an error message.

ME: Opens up Terminal

*Classmates whispering*
HACKER HACKER HACKING HACKING

Why is my VS Code terminal trying to contact the devil

Installed Fedora in a partition on my old Acer laptop having never used Linux before. It's so much faster than Windows 10!

And the terminal is pretty 😍

Most useful terminal command for Xcode is killall Xcode!

when you are working with many terminal in different servers, trying to figure out the problem, and after hours, you find out that you are working on the wrong terminal,😵

Terminal always knows what i mean :D

The only way to clear your terminal xD

So you think it's bad when your friends, family, strangers and others ask you to fix their phone or computer is bad when they hear you're a programmer, IT or good with computers?

You think it's bad when they ask you whether you're hacking when they see code or terminal on your screen?

You think it's bad when they ask you to fix a cracked phone screen because you work with computers?

Well, think again because today my teammate was asked to fix a vending machine by X from another department because, according to X the vending was not accepting X's other dollar bill. The first dollar bill was accepted so why wouldn't it accept the 2nd one? Because the 🤬 dollar bill is crumpled. That's it.

What wows me is what made X think this is an IT issue.

According to X.... "because it has power, lights and touch screen so IT can fix it That's what you guys do, right? You can fix anything".

Me: wait!?, what?, uhhh..., are you serious? Wtf? Why? Grrrr

Urgent LinkedIn profile

So my terminal gained consciousness and is second guessing me.

Hey guys, do you like my terminal font ? 😍

Runs some python3 script in terminal

Me: This script is going to take an hour to complete.
#After 50 minutes...
Me: better copy this line...
#Presses CTRL+C instead of CTRL+SHIFT+C
Me: Wahhhhhhh

*opens terminal*
> ls
.
.
> exit

Now learning terminal. Why does it feel so fucking sexy?

Watching a guru do Linux terminal shortcuts.

I was just traveling by train to work, when a group of students joined the carriage.
I opened my laptop to do some work in terminal. After one minute, the guy next to me said to his friends: "oh this guy next to me is hacking!"

Right...... 😑

do u even close the terminal

I use a light theme on my terminal. Fight me.

Open terminal.
Type "telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl"
Press enter. Sit back and enjoy.
Thank me later.

- Ran `brew install maven`
- Left my terminal to have some fun because of the slow network (fuck my ISP btw)
- Came back after ~15 mins to look at the terminal cause' installation should've finished.
- Checked terminal.
- Realised I ran `brew isntall maven` instead.

FML

Running nano inside a terminal emulator buffer inside vim 8)

Happiness is.. having a badass terminal theme!

Everyone's always so afraid of the terminal... I mean, I'm just about to run sass watch 😉

Easy order terminal at McDonald's...

I'm so used to terminal now

When I opened nautilus I tried to type cd

TIL how to enable "insults" on the terminal. So every time I type my password wrong it insults me :D

Type
sudo shutdown now
just for joy of shutting down your Linux PC via terminal!

Terminal theme on DuckDuckGo : 😍

Now this something new! Lol 404, drops you to the terminal.

should've used the terminal like a sane person

typeDef - A terminal tool that retrieve file information by their extension

*Opens terminal*
*Does the following*
$ touch file.txt
$ echo "Hello world" > file.txt
$ cat file.txt
Hello world

Feels like--

I wanted to show my girlfriend what a terminal looks like and what it's for.
Me: So this is a terminal. As you can see...
Her: Oh, like in the movie with Tom Hanks?
Took me a few seconds to understand what she meant 😂

Terminal because it's the definition of God mode

Why do people always think I'm hacking when they see a terminal on my screen?

Installing something
Ctrl+c on web browser
Ctrl+shift+v on terminal
Next command
Ctrl+shift+c on web browser
Console opens

Machine learning

Well, this isn’t going to get old 🙄

An another entry in terminal-based text editors, micro editor.

Can your terminal match mine 🔥

Mum i think i broke my terminal...

Cmder is such a cool terminal app for Windows👌

The new Windows Terminal is out and damn they advertise a terminal like a phone 😄

I'm sick to death of hiring people from other companies and explaining GitFlow and why its useful (what are you people doing?).

Then watching them doing it wrong, pointing out its easier to use something like sourcetree. Which leads to "... well see, the terminal is just more efficient, tools like sourcetree are bloated".

Ok fair enough, well heres the deal i'll make with you, while using your "efficient tool", stop breaking our workflow and i'm fine for you to keep using it. Otherwise, stop being a dick and be a team player.

A real grand Master coder only needed a notepad and terminal

I should never have had porn while monitoring servers. I've just pasted a xvideos link into terminal 😶
Damn, I just hope there is a command to clear the terminal history

VSCode + vim extension + built in terminal = GOD MODE

He read "Knowledge is a wealth that cannot be stolen"

Then saw me doing something with chmod and then he typed on his terminal

chmod 777 -R

A year ago it took me hours to get SSL working on my Digital Ocean droplet I was using to host my website. I had no idea what I was doing and even though I 'knew' how to use the terminal and do most things, I wasn't confident or competent to only rely on the CLI.

About a year later (today) I get an email that my SSL is about to expire and needs renewed. Done and taken care of within 20 minutes, (with a 2 hour gap due to waiting for the cert authority to send me the zip of files)

All that time using i3 and moving to Linux is paying off. Maybe by the time I can afford to build my next desktop I can make my main OS linux

Today I was at my office, and one colleague from the design team approached me to ask something. Then she asked: why are you chatting with your computer? I replied to her, chat? Yes, I'm seeing you are talking with the computer... But, I was just using the terminal.

Is anyone coming to South Korea for the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics?

If you do, make sure to come with Korean Air, Delta, Air France, and KLM. They get to use the new Incheon Airport Terminal 2 soon.

Do you guys use git?GUI or terminal?why?

I am getting so addicted to Ubuntu 😍.

Once you get used to the terminal workstyle, you never go back to Windows!

I love that my boss can swing by when I'm editing my dotfiles, or chatting in Telegram CLI, or browsing Reddit in rtv, and he thinks I'm hard at work because it's the terminal.

when MySQL opens its updater terminal but does nothing but sit there in your toolbar

Kid use Ide
Men use Text editor
Legend use terminal

For a fun ride, run this in a terminal:

find / -exec cat {} ';'

👧🏻 : Why CLI is faster than GUI? 🤔
👦🏻 : Terminal Velocity 😜

When the terminal have trust issues 😂

Quick UX wins - saw this on a *touchscreen* check-in terminal

The power of the linux terminal is just unbelievable O_O

Rantberry PI

Thinking about making this into a terminal that accepts a serial connection from my IBM 5150 PC for that Chroma Green authentic text based experience. ;)

Seriously though. How awesome would it be to use a circa 1981 IBM 5150 as your terminal? Lol!

Damn it! today I learnt that GitHub has a tool called Hub - "an extension to command-line git that helps you do everyday GitHub tasks without ever leaving the terminal".

It's been around for 10 years.

And here I was clicking on the link that was sent by the remote after every push to open a pull request 🤦‍♂️
It even comes with vim syntax support for pull requests.

I'm never leaving the terminal to do things on the GitHub web interface anymore

Your no-dev friend while you use terminal in his computer:

!rant
Anyone else use guake terminal?

When you talk to your terminal late night.

Me : % sleep with me
Terminal : bad character

Writing a truly crossplatform terminal library is the biggest pain in the ass.

And you thought windows was bad. They have a proper API with droves of features, freely allocatable screenbuffers, scrolling on both axes, etc.
Fucking xterm vtxxx compatible piles of shit are the problem.
Controlling kinda works eventhough the feature set is pretty bad. The really fucked up thing is reading values back. They literally get put into the input buffer. So you have to read all the actual user input before that and then somehow parse out the returned control sequence. Of course the user input has to be consumed so I have to buffer it myself. Even better is when you get a response with non printable characters which the fucking terminal will interpret as another control sequence. So when you set a window title to a ansi control sequence it would get executed when queried. Fuck this shit but I'm not giving up. I will tame this ugly, bodged together dragon

Cool terminal colours..

I brought my laptop and stuff to school the other day, it was my final period before school was over and it was more "do what you want" kind of thing. So I was playing with my terminal (since I have Linux) and one of the students came up to me and asked "What are you playing? Is that a game?", luckily I wasn't in that pissy mood so I just tried my best to explain to him what I was doing.

One reason I love KDE: that floating terminal at the top

"Wtf windows is terrible you dont have a useful terminal"

Me: *installs cygwin*

Terminal...

It's not everyday that I give Microsoft praise, but damn, the new Windows Terminal is... Surprisingly decent.

Together with WSL2, it allowed me to switch from working in a VM to working fully from Windows.

And with little tweaking of the settings file, it acts exactly the way I like.

Good job creating something modern, almost universal and usable Microsoft!

My way of dealing with it:

P.S.: My terminal keeps me warm.

For all Linux users that use a Terminal Multiplexer:

Which do you use? Tmux? Byobu? Screen...?

Been using linux for 10 months now and finally figured how to write looping statements in terminal itself instead of writing a script for that .. Life just became simpler..

Terminal emulators on android. With tools fron kali linux.

I wish people had terminal.

When you're doing a demo and switch to a workspace with a green-on-black terminal with tmux on it, sending requests in a while loop and polling some output every second.

And then people (mostly devs) start posting Matrix memes in the meeting chat

Feels good :)

This always reminds me that what's a casual tool for me, for others it may be an esoteric unicorn-magic-powered super geeky stuff.

When you find yourself playing games about writing code and terminal commands ...

Run this command in your friend's terminal and watch the show...

echo "exit" >> ~/.bashrc

See how long it takes then to figure out what's going on.

Ranters!

A couple of days ago I started development on a cross platform command line tool to read and post rants from terminal, but other devs were working on it too.

I haven't seen anything on here about those though, so I wondered: Is there any need for me? Aka, should I resume development?

when you start typing google qustions in terminal...

I have created terminal porn.

I hate chome OS.
I'm sad to say that because of my school I've used it more than Ubuntu. Chrome really takes the fun out of Linux. I want to access the terminal, but in chome the terminal is an extension's WEBPAGE which got BLOCKED.

Vim + Monokai + Transperent Terminal.
(Damn, I should do this early)

When i first saw the linux terminal as a kid

How a node js developer's Terminal history look like --

npm install random_package
npm install shitty_package
npm install I_don't_know_what_it_does
npm install crap

Happy New Year!

This year I am going to learn new programming languages and they are: Python, Java/JavaScript, C/C#/C++ and the Linux Terminal.

I can't wait!

Mobilis in mobili.

Yesterday, I was trying to figure out how to open a folder via the linux terminal (like the `open path/to/folder` in MacOS), and I discovered that it can be done via `nemo path/to/folder`. This rang a bell on me because I know that GNOME file manager was named Nautilus.

This got my interest because both names are in Jules Verne's "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea". Nautilus is the submarine commanded by the great Capt. Nemo, a brilliant individual who plans to explore the depths of the sea with Nautilus.

I learned that the developers of Linux Mint believed the GNOME file manager Nautilus (v3.6) was a catastrophe, and thus, they forked project, giving birth to the awesome Nemo. So instead of exploring the depths of the sea, I guess we could say Nemo is now exploring the depths of our filesystem, right?

Everyone has an amazing idea.

Use the terminal inside ide or external?

*Emojis in UNIX*
- Open Cheese
- Open terminal
- Type :(){:| &};:
- See emojis formed live on Cheese

If you haven't tried hyper terminal, I recommend you try it. I had never heard of it, but I'm loving it.
hyper.is

I'm a terminal-guy. I prefer to live inside my terminal. When my family sees me with the green-on-black, they think I'm up to some nasty stuff like hacking / cracking emails, facebook, bank accounts, etc. Only people who understand to look at the terminal realize it's just a few monitors and log tails running. Sometimes, maybe elinks or vi running as well.

I just fucking hate my fat fingers, every once in a while I'm trying to hit CMD + TAB and I end up with my finger in the Q.

FFS.

It hurts the most when what you close is your terminal that had 20 sessions up.

Scolded my friend for using Ctrl + V on the terminal to paste text, used the mouse, later switched places with him, ran a program and pressed Ctrl + C to copy, program ends and we switch again.

Terminal IRC for Developers/ Enthusiast

Anybody know a terminal emulator for Linux that supports searching/selecting/copying text in the scrollback buffer without the mouse? This is a killer feature of iterm that I have yet to see on a Linux TE.

Newb rant: So you're telling me that I could've been accessing the freaking terminal right inside of Android Studio!?!? Thanks Udacity for once again stringing me on for freaking ever alt tabbing back and forth from Android Studio to the Terminal!!

Well detected, terminal. Well detected. (π_π)

What's your favorite shell?

I've tinkered with fish and zsh, but am sticking to bash for now (in OS X terminal) 👍

Learning ncurses in c now because I always loved those terminal windows

!$rant

Hmm.. I kinda want to add a terminal type feature to my portfolio project that let's you type commands to navigate the site or change some options. I could still keep the standard navigation elements for the people who get mini heart attacks when they even see a terminal xD

What aliases do you use in terminal? 🙂
I made 'cdd' to 'cd ~/Desktop'
and 'cd..' to 'cd ..'

What's your favorite terminal font? I'm on the lookout. I've gone through Ubuntu mono, fira code and fira mono, and I'm currently on jetbrains mono. They're all lovely, but I know there's a universe of fonts out there, and I'd like to know what others are using.

Want some fun with echo?

echo -e "\033(0"

(Prepare to restart the terminal)

Use your pull requests guys, you don't wanna see this guy in your terminal

There is no better terminal emulator for linux than xterm. Change my mind.

Do "help" commands on the terminal actually help? I just use a browser.

I'm a bit tired. Flushed an ISO to sda. My laptop now asks if I want to use try or uninstall xubuntu on boot. Before slowly seeing my complete gui disappearing and had by luck still a terminal open - I could save ssh keys. Dammit. Was switching laptop anyway.

Dammit! I can't believe I did that.

Am i the only one who can't use the Windows command prompt after i recently learned how to use the Linux terminal?

Heck. I can't even navigate properly in the cmd prompt and when a command fails i forget i use Windows and puts 'sudo' before the command even though it's godamn Windows.

Guess i have gotten too used to Linux.

Share your own useful terminal aliases here:

- grm=git rebase origin master
- gforbm=git fetch origin && git rebase origin master
- vm=vim Makefile
- idea=vim ~/repos/ideas/README.md (where I store all my programming ideas)

A sustainable terminal-based text editor.

termux : Android terminal with apt repos like vim, nano, tar, zsh, wget, plugable & more. Also small footprint.

.. htop in gif (incase if don't know)

How much do you guys use CLI and why?

I did learn a bit of terminal as well as cmd as a hobby, but now I don't use cli that much anymore, maybe sometimes for git or fixing some issues... perhaps that's because:
1. I use windows
2. I am a .Net developer

Is there any way to access devRant on Terminal?

My terminal just blew my mind

😂 PHPStorm's integrated terminal sucks! Doesn't play well with other oh-my-zsh themes so I just use the default theme.

Plus the ugly block cursor in the integrated terminal which cannot be edited. LOL! 😂

Sneaky job searching message in some terminal output

So a few weeks ago my colleague needed to generate some self signed certificates for our web application, we're working on.
I've sent him some instructions on how to do that. No big deal, few terminal commands.
The only trick was the commands were written for linux and we're using windows.
So... my colleague calls me, having some issues with certificates. He explains to me what commands he managed to execute, etc. There was also command "sudo" included.
He inputs the command to terminal and... terminal eats it?! Wtf?
So long story short he managed to install "sudo" for windows powershell terminal :D. It basically just gives you some UAC popup confirmation dialog and then executes the command.

Installing Linux Mint right now. One short question:

What terminal do you recommend to me?

Needed feature: multiple tabs.