cmdline-cast

This component casts the command line to a server to help students at my lectures in Linux at the University for Applied Sciences FH Burgenland. Burgenland is a federal state of Austria, the name would translate to castles country.

How it works

The last command line is captured by setting PS0 in the Bash environment. Bash version must be >= 4.4 for this feature.

This command line is then sent via a REST API to a server implemented in Meteor. The server is available at https://github.com/fknipp/cmdline-server.

Installation

1. Clone this repository.

2. Create a symbolic link from cmdline-cast to /usr/local/bin.

3. Execute cmdline-cast login and enter your credentials.

4. Execute cmdline-cast start in your current shell:

   . cmdline-cast start
   

   This sets the necessary environment variables to log all commands to the server. This might be part of /etc/bash.bashrc or ~/.bashrc.

5. Enjoy seeing your commands on https://cmdline.qnipp.com.

Status

This in work in progress. I've many more features in mind to make it easier for my students to follow the lectures.

License

MIT