As you grow from
absolutely clueless to
shameless newbie as a Linux user you start to feel more comfortable with the command line. This is something that I value very much because now when I have to go to the server and do dirty stuff through SSH I feel I'm not going to screw things up the second I hit
ENTER.
Another nice side effect of that is that you start writing your own scripts for your daily tasks. Time ago I wrote one to which you could feed a folder and would recursively look for images and create thumbnails. This was very handy after taking pics to be able to send some by email to friends and stuff (doing this CLI because as far as I know, there's no way to do it in the GIMP, is that so?). Sadly, I lost it in one of the reinstallations. Well, not again.
I've just commited to the
ZCode repo my
LameScripts folder. So far it only contains 2 super-lame scripts to use my beloved
Beyond Compare as a external diff tool for GIT and SVN.
If you are crazy enough to use them, just check them out somewhere in your home folder. Then edit your .bashrc file and add at the end:
[code lang="bash"]PATH=$PATH:/path/to/lamescripts[/code]
Now you can call them anywhere you are on the console. Each script should have basic instructions if they need any. Needless to say:
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!