Windows Terminal

Windows Terminal and customisations

I began my software development career on Linux. I am and have always been very comfortable with the command line and do not really care if I have to open up the command line on Windows. However, in the Windows world, command line used to suck. I think that is a polite way to put it. It truly sucked so bad that developers from a Linux background, often wondered how windows even got this far. It had a weird window size limitation and used to open only halfway through your wide screen! ...

December 31, 2020 · 3 min · 519 words · Eakan Gopalakrishnan
Close-up of glowing up and down arrow keys on a keyboard beside a dark terminal window full of command history

BASH - keymap and binding

Hello there folks! I have been using [BASH](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bash_%28Unix_shell%29) for quite a long time. Yet I feel like there is a lot that I don’t know. The irony is that I am doing the BASH and Linux Basics training for new hires at my firm. I am not that bad, you see. It is just that there is so much to know. And I am never happy with what I know. ...

January 26, 2014 · 3 min · 571 words · Eakan Gopalakrishnan
A monitor with several overlapping terminal windows split into panes, joined by glowing lines, with a key in front

DIR on VMS and display useful information

I don’t know if you have even heard of this operating system named OpenVMS by HP. Unfortunately or maybe fortunately I have had a chance to work on it. The operating system has a cool feature, file version is built into the OpenVMS file system. But the problem with this is that if you go into a log directory and list out files, the list could get really long. I was just trying to make it display things that I usually use on Linux. ls -lrt ...

August 7, 2013 · 1 min · 188 words