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One bash command to start the day 🌅

Doaa Mahely on August 23, 2020

When I first started at my current job, I was using my personal laptop. Being a stickler for the separation between work-time and non-work-time, I ...

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Bogdan Covrig • Aug 24 '20

Great post and idea! I recently got into shell scripts as well trying to automate some stuff.

Not yet ready to share the full code because is quite trashy 👀 but this is a little snippet making, changing, and opening a directory in code for a fresh new project.

# MKDIR with the inputted name. If already exists, just ignore, continue anyways      
tput setaf 0; echo -n "Creating directory... "
mkdir $flpath 
tput setaf 2; echo "done."

# CD to the inputted folder
tput setaf 0; echo -n "Changing directory... "
cd $flpath 
tput setaf 2; echo "done."

# OPEN CODE from the folder
tput setaf 0; echo -n "Opening VS Code... "
code -n . 
tput setaf 2; echo "done."

Really loved finding out about tput setaf changing the color of the text in the terminal, it makes it look cooler.

Also nice trick source ~/.new-sh-script.sh in the zsh config file and it loads the new (or any other function) in the terminal as a command.

Doaa Mahely • Aug 25 '20 • Edited

This is really cool! That's gonna be a very useful script. I look forward to seeing the final result 😄

Daniel Lamblin • Sep 12 '20

This changed my life with bash:

CDPATH The search path for the cd command.  This is  a  
       colon-separated list  of  directories  in  which the
       shell looks for destination directories specified by
       the cd  command.   A  sample  value  is ".:~:/usr".

EG put all your projects in a project directory, add it to your CDPATH, and you can tab complete your project directory names with cd from any path any time.

Dídac Sementé Fernández • Aug 24 '20

One thing I do in my own laptop is make a separate account for my work user and another one for my personal user. That way I don't need to worry about one thing interfering with the other.

Doaa Mahely • Aug 24 '20

That's a good idea as well

Omar Al-Mashjari • Sep 2 '20

Well, that is especially helpful while working from home.
8:59 AM - Home
9:00 AM - Work!!

Irene Sarigu • Aug 23 '20

Thanks for this information! 😊

Emilie Ma • Aug 23 '20

Did something similar to this - automation for the win! Saves a ton of time as well.

Andrew Baisden • Aug 28 '20

Reading this article makes me want to automate my whole workflow it would save me a ton of time that would be better spent doing other things.

Ratul Roy • Nov 6 '20

Cool post! I usually put all my command in one python script, and run it after opening my workstation.

Camilo Martinez • Sep 23 '20

My favorite one 🤓

alias x="exit"

Mamadou Korka Diallo • Aug 24 '20

This is very neat and really productive. thanks

Jim Priest • Sep 2 '20

I do something similar on may Mac using Alfred - I just enter 'work' and it pops open all my email, editor, browser and Slack/Teams, etc. Lazy for the win!

Doaa Mahely • Sep 2 '20

That's awesome! I tried using Alfred some time ago but couldn't get used to it.

Abdul Rauf • Sep 8 '20

Nice! I also have similar startup script except I use browser's built in tab restore feature to restore my browser session with all tabs.

Doaa Mahely • Aug 23 '20

Thanks for reading Pavel 😄

Sam Borick • Sep 3 '20

I do this too! I also start a toggl timer via their rest api. And I create standard 'getting started' checklist via the todoist.

Ritwik Shanker • Sep 2 '20

Great Article. A note for people who use Macbook's, you can use Automator tool which is inbuilt inside the system. Will really help you avoid 5-6 clicks in the morning.

Doaa Mahely • Sep 2 '20

I'll have to take a look at the automator, thanks

villival • Dec 14 '20

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