Windows Terminal Tips, Tricks, and Productivity Hacks: Optimize your command-line usage and development processes with pro-level techniques

✍ Scribed by Will Fuqua

• Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 254
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Windows Terminal Tips, Tricks, and Productivity Hacks is a comprehensive guide to using Windows Terminal effectively. This book will show you how to customize the platform, work with developer tools such as Git and SSH, and more, while equipping you with the skills you need in the real world.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Title page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Foreword
Contributors
Table of Contents
Preface
Section 1: Introducing the New Windows Terminal
Chapter 1: Getting started with the new Windows Terminal
Technical requirements
Why a new terminal?
The modern foundations of Windows Terminal
A Modern UI
Flexible JSON-based customization
Open source development
Installing Windows Terminal
Launching Windows Terminal
Summary
Further reading
Chapter 2: Learning the Windows Terminal UI
Technical requirements
Using the terminal tabs
Editing tab title appearance
Using terminal panes
Managing terminal output
Using the command palette
Keyboard shortcuts review
Summary
Further reading
Chapter 3: Configuring an Ubuntu Linux profile
Technical requirements
Why use the Windows Subsystem for Linux?
Installing Ubuntu Linux
Step 1: Install WSL2
Step 2: Install Ubuntu
Launching Linux
Installing Linux applications: nginx
Starting nginx
Bidirectional access in Windows and Ubuntu
Summary
Section 2: Configuring your Windows Terminal and its shells
Chapter 4: Customizing your Windows Terminal settings
Technical requirements
Introducing the settings.json file
Recovering from bad settings
The settings file structure
Useful Global Settings
Useful profile settings
Custom command-line profiles
Git Bash shell
SSH shell
C# interactive shell
Node.js interactive shell
Vim terminal shell
Summary
Chapter 5: Changing your Windows Terminal appearance
Technical requirements
Terminal color schemes
Built-in color schemes
Community-driven color schemes
Writing your own theme
Background images and translucency
Customizing PowerShell with posh-git, oh-my-posh, and PSReadLine
Oh-my-posh version 2
Oh-my-posh version 3
Changing the prompt without oh-my-posh
Changing command colors with PSReadline
WSL2 customization with oh-my-zsh
Command Prompt customization
Summary
Chapter 6: Setting up keyboard shortcuts
Technical requirements
Overview of the keyboard shortcut system
Building custom commands with "sendInput"
Configuring custom terminal layouts with "wt"
Additional uses of 'wt'
Summary
Chapter 7: Hidden Windows Terminal Actions
Technical requirements
Discovering unbound actions
Using actions for focus management
togglePaneZoom
toggleAlwaysOnTop
toggleFocusMode
Using actions for visual effects
setColorScheme
toggleShaderEffects
Using actions for tab manipulation
Closing multiple tabs at once
Changing tab colors
Summary
Chapter 8: Tips for using PowerShell like a Pro
Technical requirements
Installing PowerShell Core
Using built-in commands and aliases
Automatic Variable: $^ and $$
cd - and cd +
The ii command
History navigation with h and r
Pipelines and $_
Custom Profile Aliases and Functions
Configuring PSReadLine in PowerShell Core
EditMode
History Search
Better autocompletion
Command predictions
Programmable shortcuts
Adding the GNU coreutils to the path
Installing the z utility
Addendum – the full PowerShell $profile file
Summary
Chapter 9: Tips for Using Ubuntu like an Expert
Technical requirements
Using Ubuntu with Windows
Accessing Linux directories from Windows
Accessing Windows directories from Linux
Running Linux programs from inside Windows
Running Windows programs from inside Linux
Installing and configuring software
Choosing your shell
Using ZSH
Rerunning earlier commands
Using ZSH substitutions
Configuring aliases and functions
Quickly navigating to directories
Installing and using oh-my-zsh plugins
Enabling the z plugin
Enabling vi-mode
Installing zsh-autosuggestions
zsh-syntax-highlighting
Summary
Section 3: Using your Windows Terminal for development
Chapter 10: Using Git and GitHub with Windows Terminal
Technical requirements
Creating a modern Git installation
Installing Git
Installing OpenSSH
Starting our OpenSSH Agent
Setting up a private/public key pair
Testing our SSH authentication
Authenticating with Git on Linux
Tips for using Git effectively
Switching Git branches with git checkout -
Fixing typos with Git's autocorrect
Pushing to HEAD
Git aliases and command aliases
Tig
Viewing files on different branches
git reflog
Using GitHub from Windows Terminal
Creating repositories
Viewing pull requests
Checking out Pull Requests
Summary
Chapter 11: Building web applications with React
Technical requirements
Installing Node.js in WSL2
Adding a Node.js profile to Windows Terminal
Creating a React app
Developing in WSL2
Developing with a modern workflow
Summary
Chapter 12: Building REST APIs with C# and Windows Terminal
Technical requirements
Installing .NET and C#
Using dotnet script from Windows Terminal
Generating our REST API
Testing our REST API
Making changes to our REST API
Running unit tests with Windows Terminal
Summary
Chapter 13: Connecting to remote systems
Technical requirements
Connecting to Windows computers with WinRM and SSH
Connecting with WinRM
Connecting to Windows computers with SSH
Copying files with SCP
Connecting to Linux machines
Saving routinely accessed hosts and commands
Starting remote connections in Windows Terminal
Summary
Chapter 14: Managing systems in the cloud
Technical requirements
Using Microsoft Azure's Cloud Shell and az interactive
Using az interactive
Using Google Cloud Shell and gcloud interactive
Using gcloud beta interactive
Using AWS from Windows Terminal
Using aws-shell
Using the AWS Tools for PowerShell
Summary
Appendix Windows Terminal Actions
About Packt
Other Books You May Enjoy
Index