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Posted by rayorke
rayorke
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Course Suggestion: Terminal

A lot of users and treehouse folks are learning Ruby, Ruby on Rails and Objective-C and using their terminal for the first time.

I'd love to see a badge (course) that focuses on covering the command line. From basics, to installing packages, updating, etc. I believe that understanding how the terminal/bash shell works is essential.

We could even see different shells, like zsh.

13 Answers

Amit Bijlani
STAFF
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Amit Bijlani
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest Teacher

Great news! This is already in the works and should be out sometime next month. Stay tuned!

rayorke
rayorke
27,709 Points
rayorke
rayorke
27,709 Points

Wow, so you folks over at treehouse are psychic as well! Amazing! ;)

Deleted User
Deleted User

Some useful/interesting topics in this area may be to talk about tmux/screen and customizing your ~/.bashrc.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

@Amit - Whose teaching the course?

Ben Jakuben
STAFF
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher
Ben Jakuben
Ben Jakuben
Treehouse Teacher

@James: The one and only Mr. Jim Hoskins.

bartholomew bicklebaum
bartholomew bicklebaum
4,606 Points
bartholomew bicklebaum
bartholomew bicklebaum
4,606 Points

In the meantime, can someone please tell me how to open sublime text 2 from the command line for windows?

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

@Robert -

  1. How does this relate to the OP point about a new course request
  2. What's your end goal in starting ST2 via typing a command vs clicking on an icon?
bartholomew bicklebaum
bartholomew bicklebaum
4,606 Points
bartholomew bicklebaum
bartholomew bicklebaum
4,606 Points

@James-

  1. Thanks. I'll try to post more efficiently for everyone here.
  2. Good point! I see that people are doing this, so I am following. Not sure what benefits this has for programming?
Eric Kim
Eric Kim
1,380 Points
Eric Kim
Eric Kim
1,380 Points

^ Sometimes I navigate around in my terminal, also use git requests to manage code. On my mac I've set it up using instructions on this page: https://gist.github.com/1236170

Note that 'export PATH=' might already exist. In this case add ':' at the end and the path they give.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

@Eric - @Robert was asking about using ST2 with the Windows command line, not OS X.

Gareth Redfern
Gareth Redfern
36,217 Points
Gareth Redfern
Gareth Redfern
36,217 Points

This is fantastic news!

Eric Kim
Eric Kim
1,380 Points
Eric Kim
Eric Kim
1,380 Points

LOL. I missed that. I just assumed everything in this thread HAD to be related to terminals because of the title. I guess your response to him makes sense now.

But still, I did explain reason for your (2).

Cheers.

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points
James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

@Rhys - In case anyone missed it, this was launched last month