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Taming the Terminal

by Bart Busschots & Allison Sheridan

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TTT 41 of n — Protecting Your Secrets

December 18, 2025 · 1 hr 2 min

We're back after a (planned) lengthy hiatus! In this instalment, Bart teaches us how to protect our secrets while working in the Terminal. Secrets can include passwords, API keys, and any other sensitive information you'd like to protect…
TTT 40 of n – Automating TMUX

August 16, 2020 · 1 hr 14 min

In this episode of Taming the Terminal, Bart winds up our series within a series all about the Terminal command TMUX. In this final piece he teaches us first how to string commands together to create the TMUX sessions we want with the…
TTT 39 of n – Advanced TMUX

July 26, 2020

This week's episode of Chit Chat Across the Pond was another installment of Taming the Terminal. Two weeks ago Bart taught us the basics of a technology called `tmux`, or terminal multiplexer that allows you to access the same server in…
TTT 38 of n – TMUX (a Screen Alternative)

July 12, 2020 · 1 hr 7 min

When Bart first started the Taming the Terminal series in October of 2015, he purposely declared every installment to be "of n" where n was not defined. It's been 3 years since there was an episode of Taming the Terminal, but today we've…
TTT 37A of n – SSH Agents

May 27, 2017 · 31 min

In 2017 on Taming the Terminal installment 37 of n, Bart taught us about SSH agents and the advantages of using a passphrase to further protect your SSH keys. In the intervening four years, things have changed a bit in macOS, so we decided…

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TTT 37 of n – SSH Agents

May 27, 2017

As promised, Taming the Terminal isn't over yet! Bart Busschots joins us to talk about SSH Agents. We'll talk about how Apple changed things in El Capitan so that you'll have to log into your server with your passphrase more often, and how…
TTT 36 of n - screen and cron

November 19, 2016 · 1 hr 4 min

It’s been a long time since we did a Taming the Terminal episode but we’re back with episode 36 of n, screen and cron. You’ll hear me say this is episode 35, but with all these numbers flying around we got mixed up! In any case, in this…
TTT 35 of n - HTTP Commands

October 23, 2015

In this installment we look at three terminal commands for interacting with the world wide web from the terminal. We'll look at a command-line based browser, and commands for downloading files and viewing HTTP headers. As always, you can…
TTT 33 of n - SSH Bookmarks

October 23, 2015

In this installment we learn how to use SSH config files to automate some aspects of SSH, creating what amount to bookmarks to servers we connect to often. We'll also look at some GUIs for storing SSH connection details. As always, you…
TTT 34 of n - Introducing HTTP

October 23, 2015

In this installment we look at how the HTTP protocol works, this is the protocol that powers the world-wide-web. As always, you can get to Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at ttt.bartificer.net/...
TTT 32 of n - SSH Tunneling

October 23, 2015

In this installment we'll look at how SSH tunnels can be used to secure all kinds of network traffic, not just remote commands and file transfers. Most people won't need the power of SSH tunnels very often, if at all, but when you do need…
TTT 31 of n - SSH File Transfers

October 23, 2015

SSH can do a lot more than just run commands, and in this installment we'll discover how to use SSH to securely transfer files from one computer to another. As always, you can get to Bart's fabulous tutorial shownotes at…