Hi,

I used the neat history trick that Mike, Steven, and Bennet suggested for a
bootcamp last week, and students absolutely loved it! I suggest adding this
to the 'SWC instructor bag of tricks' :)

Thanks for sharing,
Bernhard

P.S. This is what I put in my .bashrc

alias start_recording='export PROMPT_COMMAND="history 1 >>
~/Dropbox/Public/history.txt";HISTTIMEFORMAT="%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S $
alias stop_recording='export PROMPT_COMMAND=""'




On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Daniel Chen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Last time I taught bash, I opened an explorer/finder/nautilus window along
> with terminal.  when i 'cd'  to a directory, I explicitly said (and did)
> 'this is the same as double clicking a folder'.
>
> Although having a 'live' nautilus window to follow your bash commands is
> nice, having a separate window slows you down and makes you re-iterate
> definitions and what you are doing.
>
> I also like showing them a folder with 1000's of files in it, as a
> practice of using the wildcard to move files.  You don't want to actually
> have the GUI draw the icons, things freak out.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 4:21 AM, David Perez-Suarez <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> A bit late in this thread but I'm just back from holidays.
>>
>> >   Does anyone know
>> > if there's a two-pane desktop tool that has these two views, and
>> > automatically updates each to reflect changes in the other?
>>
>> In linux, for Nautilus, there's this extension:
>> http://projects.flogisoft.com/nautilus-terminal/
>>
>> It would be great though that the panel also shows what you do in the
>> GUI...
>> It's written in python and seems that could be possible to add stuff
>> like mv, mkdir, touch and rm representation to the terminal easily
>> enough... however it should avoid to execute it as it would be done by
>> nautilus.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David
>>
>>
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