beep-beep

beep-beep maintains a pool of shells in the background so that when it's time to create a new terminal session, one is already warmed up and ready to go.

Installation

Currently only Macos is supported

brew install beep-beep

Binaries are available on the releases page of the repo. Download the tar file, and place the executable in your path.

From source

git clone https://github.com/npezza93/beep-beep
cd beep-beep
npm i
./build
./dist/beep-beep

Usage

beep-beep is split into two functions, the client and the server.

Server

The server maintains the pool of ptys and is run the background. Ideally as a launtctl process.

beep-beep server

When using the server subcommand, no options are required but the available options are as follows:

-q, --queue <count>
- How many ptys should be queued up (default: 1)
-s, --shell <file-path>
- File path to the shell to run (default: $SHELL)
-a, --args <args>
- Arguments to passed to the shell (comma separated)
-c, --config-file <file-path>
- Read options via specified json config file. Useful if beep-beep is running in a background process via Homebrew
-w, --watch <absolute-paths>
- If any of the supplied files change, the enqueued ptys are restarted (comma separated)

Client

The client connects to the server, requests a pty, and connects to the next available pty.

In your terminal emulator, change the command to run to be the path to beep-beep, bin/beep-beep.

If you also use tmux, you can change your default-command to use beep-beep:

set -g default-command "bin/beep-beep"