Code snippets

You will find here 8 code snippets I find useful so I don't have to Google ™ or Stackoverflow ™ them when I need. There are also code snippets I always forget! 😁 Sometimes, related links to the code will be available. The main difference with other random snippets you will find on the web is that in most cases (for the Symfony related ones) you will be able to run them directly from this website to check the output so you can verify it works as expected ™.

This snippet shows how to extend a native terminal command with the Fish shell. This snippet is extracted from the official docume...

Fish shell

Published on 2024-09-07 • Modified on 2024-09-07

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This snippet shows how to create a quick GIT commit function for Fishshell. It is a function I use daily; it's convenient and save...

Fish shell

Published on 2024-08-31 • Modified on 2024-08-31

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This snippet shows how to execute simple math operations in the terminal using shells like bash or fish. In this example, we calcu...

terminal

Published on 2024-07-02 • Modified on 2024-07-02

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This snippet shows how to get the current interactive shell name. We can use this $SHELL variable, which should be available in e...

shell

Published on 2024-06-09 • Modified on 2024-06-09

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This snippet shows how to display the status code of the last executed command in the terminal. It can be helpful in shell scripts...

terminal

Published on 2023-10-21 • Modified on 2023-10-21

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This snippet shows an example of a simple and clean prompt for the fish shell. I first saw this snippet on the blog of Gerald Kasz...

Fish shell

Published on 2023-09-06 • Modified on 2023-09-06

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This snippet shows how to execute a given Make target inside a target. When you want to run a target before another, you can put a...

make

Published on 2023-03-15 • Modified on 2023-03-15

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In this snippet, we see how to get the columns count of the terminal. The two following commands produce the same result. In the f...

terminal

Published on 2021-12-21 • Modified on 2021-12-21

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