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SL(1): Cure your bad habit of mistyping

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Git-landmine – Create local malicious Git repo | Jul 2023
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You should install https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl as a hardening measure.
Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client | Nov 2022
Their CLI is going to interfere with the other `sl` command: https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl
Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client | Nov 2022
Nooooooooooo.

Whatever is to come of my cute animations!

[Think of the trains!](https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl)

Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client | Nov 2022
Command name conflicts with the `sl` utility that has existed for decades.

https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl

How many Linux commands can 7 year old learn? | May 2022
If you want to teach a kid the command line, I highly recommend ‘sl’ as a first command - my two-year-old had never forgotten it: https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl
Exa: An Alternative to Ls | Oct 2021
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see also: https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl

(available packaged in most linux/bsd distributions)
Show HN: I Am Pickle Rick | Feb 2020
I'm a fan of Steam Locomotive personally - https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl
Ask HN: What is the funniest and stupidest software project you know? | Dec 2018
https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl

> SL (Steam Locomotive) runs across your terminal when you type "sl" as you meant to type "ls". It's just a joke command, and not useful at all.

Sl: a mirror version of ls | Mar 2018
I like to add "install https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl" to my companies "Getting started" documentation to prank new hires. Great fun!
Sl: a mirror version of ls | Mar 2018
Not to be confounded with the other project of the same name (and with the same purpose) https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl
Git git git git git | Sep 2017
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You probably aren't alone, since commands that punish you when you mistype exist. Check out sl[0] or gti[1].

[0] https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl [1] http://r-wos.org/hacks/gti
Fun at the Unix Terminal | Apr 2017
sl [0] is always my favorite.

[0]https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl

NoFAQ – A tool that corrects your console commands | Sep 2016
Not sure how well it works:

- Suggested `ls` for `sl` despite the fact that the latter [0] is a wonderful utility.

- `chomd` didn't yield any suggestion. Neither did `fskc`.

A similar utility that actually helps is thefuck [1].

[0] https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl

[1] https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck

How zsh is more useful than bash | May 2013
I think the zsh-vs-bash debate is centered on minimalist vs. full-featured. For instance, the git completion example is very ugly in zsh to me. I know what git commands do, and I'd much prefer for the completion to take 1-2 lines total than one line per possible command, as in the zsh example. The prompt examples are similar -- my PS1 is

  local green="$(tput setaf 2)"
  local reset="$(tput sgr0)"
  export PS1="\[$green\]>>\[$reset\] "
And a multiline prompt, let alone one with right-justified elements, is pretty gruesome to me.

The first slides about availability on Macintoshes don't resonate, because I'm going to have MacPorts on any dev box and use that to install the latest. It's more likely I ssh to a server that has Bash 4 and no Zsh than anything else, so it also makes sense to know bash and have a good .bashrc ready to scp up there if I'm going to be doing a lot of work on the server.

zsh spellcheck is very annoying, thankfully it can be disabled. This is my preferred spellcheck solution ;^) https://github.com/mtoyoda/sl

All that being said, zsh is a really cool piece of software. It's one of those things I've always wanted to really stretch to its limits, but I've never been able to hang with it for more than a few months, which I doubt is enough time to really become accustomed to the workflows zsh allows (like the /u/b/... expansion example in the slides).