Rails keeps telling me that it’s not currently installed
If you’re running a rails command immediately after installing rails, you will need to restart your terminal before your commands will be recognized.
zsh
Getting a weird percent sign in printf output in terminal with C
When (non-null) output from a program doesn’t include a trailing newline, zsh adds that color-inverted % to indicate that and moves to the next line before printing the prompt; it’s generally more convenient than bash’s behavior, just starting the command prompt where the output ended.
Git branch command behaves like ‘less’
As mentioned in comments to Mark Adelsberger’s answer, this was a default behavior change introduced in Git 2.16. You can turn paged output for git branch back off by default with the pager.branch config setting: git config –global pager.branch false
npm global path prefix
Extending your PATH with: export PATH=/usr/local/share/npm/bin:$PATH isn’t a terrible idea. Having said that, you shouldn’t have to do it. Run this: npm config get prefix The default on OS X is /usr/local, which means that npm will symlink binaries into /usr/local/bin, which should already be on your PATH (especially if you’re using Homebrew). So: npm … Read more
How to add a progress bar to a shell script?
How to add a progress bar to a shell script?
How to permanently set $PATH on Linux/Unix [closed]
You need to add it to your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc file. export PATH=”$PATH:/path/to/dir” Depending on what you’re doing, you also may want to symlink to binaries: cd /usr/bin sudo ln -s /path/to/binary binary-name Note that this will not automatically update your path for the remainder of the session. To do this, you should run: source … Read more