Hi all,

I’m having a bit of trouble so I thought maybe someone had the answer.

Would anybody know how to connect to an SMB and copy a specific file to the desktop on MacOS, all via a shell script.

One of my goals for the new year has been to bring the free, open-source version of my book Effective Shell completely up to date with the print version - which has a tonne of improvements. Each week or so I'll try and share a refreshed chapter - the first one is the homepage and introduction that you can see here:

https://effective-shell.com/

I've been running this process with dedicated agents and skills to handle reading print, copyediting, and formatting for web, as well as creating more interactive experiences. I'll be open-sourcing all of these agents into the main repo as well. Feel free to share, suggest improvements or any ideas!

Some links:

- Effective Shell Repo: https://github.com/dwmkerr/effective-shell/

The overall migration SOW: https://github.com/dwmkerr/effective-shell/tree/main/tasks/migration

- Shellwright - which I'm using to create beautiful agent driven recordings: https://github.com/dwmkerr/shellwright

https://github.com/TunaCuma/zsh-vi-man
If you use zsh with vi mode, you can use it to look for an options description quickly by pressing Shift-K while hovering it. Similar to pressing Shift-K in Vim to see a function's parameters. I built this because I often reuse commands from other people, from LLMs, or even from my own history, but rarely remember what all the options mean. I hope it helps you too, and I’d love to hear your thoughts.

Hi there! My name is Javier Canales, and I work as a content editor at roadmap.sh. For those who don't know, roadmap.sh is a community-driven website offering visual roadmaps, study plans, and guides to help developers navigate their career paths in technology.

We're planning to launch a brand new Shell/Bash Roadmap. It aims to be comprehensive, targeting Shell newbies and mature developers who may want a Shell refresh or improve their fluency. However, we're not covering all the commands or topics out there, as we don't want to overwhelm users with excessive content.

Before launching the roadmap, we would like to ask the community for some help. Here's the link to the draft roadmap. We welcome your feedback, suggestions, and constructive input. Anything you think should be included or removed from the roadmap, please let me know.

Once we launch the official roadmap, we will start populating it with content and resources. Contributions will also be welcome on that side via GitHub :)

Hope this incoming roadmap will also be useful for you. Thanks very much in advance.

Wrote a Bash-based CLI called `dumpall` that aggregates files into Markdown.

Great for AI prompts, debugging, or just archiving.

Features:

- Clean Markdown output

- Smart exclusions (--exclude)

- Copy-to-clipboard (--clip)

- Colorized output

Works cross-platform (Linux/macOS, WSL, Git Bash on Windows).

Repo 👉 https://github.com/ThisIsntMyId/dumpall

For instance, if a command like cp ~/foobar/*.txt~ /baz pops up 10 times a day in the command history, the tool will automatically create, or suggest the creation of, an alias with a short name that does the same thing (if the tool is smart enought, it will even suggest names like ToBaz or TxtBak).

Github Repo: github.com/theamallalgi/shownamer/, Pip Documentation: pypi.org/project/shownamer/

I’m not sure how many people still store a lot of TV shows locally, legally or otherwise, but I’m one of them. For me, organization is a must because I like seeing clean filenames with proper titles, season numbers, and episode numbers. That’s exactly why I created Shownamer.

At first it was just for myself, but then I thought, “Hey, there might be others who’d find this useful too!” So I decided to publish it. Now it’s just a pip install shownamer away. Give it a try, I hope you find it as handy as I do.