Swordfish90/cool-retro-term

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

I can’t believe I still haven’t shared this little gem:

cool-retro-term

A good looking terminal emulator which mimics the old cathode display… cool-retro-term is a terminal emulator which mimics the look and feel of the old cathode tube screens. It has been designed to be eye-candy, customizable, and reasonably lightweight.

I’ve been using my Commodore 64 with a green phosphor video. This makes me return to my youth

Unix/Linux trick: ‘cd’ back to the previous directory

Posted on by Paolo Redaelli

You know when you’re in a very “deep” directory, such as /usr/local/src/this/that/thatother, and you type “cd” and press enter by mistake ((happens a lot when you thin…

Source: Unix/Linux trick: ‘cd’ back to the previous directory

Shortly, is as simple as «cd -». Since true knowledge lies in manpages, here’s the right quote:

An argument of – is equivalent to $OLDPWD.