Bash is magic # No it’s not

Dwayne McDaniel - Pantheon

Let’s talk about magic

• Don’t be afraid of bash, just use it
• Stephen R. Bourne Created Unix shell in ’79
• bash “causes actions” its that simple
• Linux ’92 / ’93 Linus Torvalds
  • Now you can run in on Windows 😐
• Build Tools
  • CirlceCi
  • Jenkins
  • CI / CD

Bash

• Included in Mac and Linux
• Can install on Windows
• $ prompt
• ~ home directory
• pwd - present working directory
• ls - list contents of directory
• ls -a list contents - all (including hidden files)
• .. - one level up
• mkdir - make directory
• cp - copy
• mv - move
• rm - remove
• rm -rf — remove all recursive (be careful)
• history — show history of commands
• clear — clear screen
• open — Open files and directories

Tools

• grep — general regular expression search
• curl — pull from a url
  • curl - I — header
• vi - editor
• nano - editor
• calc - calculator
• git - version control
• ddgr - duck duck go search
• wp - wpcli — WordPress command line
• backstop — automates visual regression
• example image magic — convert images
• .bashrc — create a alias such as ff to open Firefox if you want
  • automate bash commands into a sequence
• Scripting
  • “hello world”
  • use wp-cli to automate stuff you do frequently
  • build a script to build websites
  • run scripts to update, test, test, move to production all within bash
  • ctrl a — move to front of line

Tips

• duck duck go is great for documentation
• watch star wars in asci