{"id":953,"date":"2009-07-09T16:19:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T14:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linuxmint.com\/blog\/?p=953"},"modified":"2009-07-09T16:36:58","modified_gmt":"2009-07-09T14:36:58","slug":"command-line-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/?p=953","title":{"rendered":"Command line &#8211; improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The terminal just got better as little improvements were made in apt (\/usr\/local\/bin\/apt) and a new &#8220;highlight&#8221; command was introduced in mintsystem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Improvements in apt: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>apt was completely rewritten in Python<\/li>\n<li>The search, show, content, contains, version, policy, depends, and rdepends now come with color highlighting<\/li>\n<li>sudo is now only used when necessary, so &#8220;apt search&#8221; for instance doesn&#8217;t require a password anymore.<\/li>\n<li>The help was improved and is now shown by simply typing &#8220;apt&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>A new help command shows the Debian APT equivalent of the apt command you typed.<\/li>\n<li>And for the APT addicts among you, Super Cow Powers were added.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>highlight:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>highlight is a new python script placed in \/usr\/local\/bin and provided by the mintsystem package<\/li>\n<li>it highlights keywords in different colors<\/li>\n<li>for instance &#8220;lspci | highlight VGA USB Ethernet Wireless&#8221; shows the normal output of lspci but with &#8220;VGA&#8221; highlighted in red, &#8220;USB&#8221; in green, &#8220;Ethernet&#8221; in yellow, and &#8220;Wireless&#8221; in blue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course there&#8217;s nothing new or revolutionary here, just a few incremental improvements. The terminal is extremely important, and although almost everything can be done graphically nowadays, it represents for many people a simpler\/faster way to achieve what they want. It&#8217;s always been more precise, more exhaustive&#8230; in many respect, a better tool, than most alternative graphical user interfaces, so it&#8217;s only natural we make it as confortable as a terminal can be.<\/p>\n<p>Comments and ideas are welcome. These commands can certainly be improved further. If you think something&#8217;s missing please speak up.<\/p>\n<p>Note: The commands and improvements mentioned above are available in mintsystem, versions 7.4.9 or greater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The terminal just got better as little improvements were made in apt (\/usr\/local\/bin\/apt) and a new &#8220;highlight&#8221; command was introduced in mintsystem. Improvements in apt: apt was completely rewritten in Python The search, show, content, contains, version, policy, depends, and rdepends now come with color highlighting sudo is now only used when necessary, so &#8220;apt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=953"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953\/revisions\/957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.linuxmint.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}