Enhanced Open Terminal Here, for Leopard at Maururu

Ever find it annoying that you can’t go from the terminal to the same directory in the finder or vice versa on the Mac? So am I! It just seems terribly inefficient for power users who are proficient with the terminal to have to open up the terminal app and then manually cd into the current directory. Aside from just a waste of time and extra keystrokes (yes, tab to auto-complete does help a lot), it’s not easy to remember the exact path to the current directory. On top of that, OS X likes to make it harder for regular users to access root folders and it becomes a pain to use. I finally gave up and googled for solutions to go from finder to terminal today and found a great time-saver: Enhanced Open Terminal Here.

Inserting new line in echo command

Out of curiosity and the perfectionist in me, I “had” to print a line of text in the output inside a BASH shell script. I didn’t really want to split them into multiple echo statements since it’s a waste of space and actually harder to read for me. The first thing I tried was:

> echo “Line1\nLine2″ # Line1\nLine2

That clearly didn’t work out so well… so I thought maybe my Mac (OS X 10.5.7) likes ‘\r\n’ more:

One Giant Robot After Another

Changed from ‘Code Monkey’ to ‘One Giant Robot After Another’! Where did I get the inspiration from? Well, I initially really liked ThoughtBot’s blog, Giant Robot Smashing Into Other Giant Robots, but copying them would be boring and probably not make those guys very happy. However, I recently came across some articles about a couple of giant robots being built in Japan on Gizmodo: a giant Gundam (done building) and Tetsujin (under construction). For the lack of better naming schemes, I just took the sequential order of how the robots are built as the new name, literally ‘One Giant Robot After Another’.