Little bash programming

[Robert Bushman]

How about chipping in on a presentation then?
We'll put someone more foolhardy in front of
the slings and arrows :) (I'll do it if noone
else is interested)

Maybe list your 10 favorite CLI quickies?
(everyone is more than welcome to contribute!)

Business for Engineers - it's the same damned
thing at U Cincinnati. ugh. The instructor had
the worst toupee I've ever seen - it was jet
black, but his hair was gray.

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Kevin Brown wrote:

> EEEAAAKKKK!!!!, Public speaking.
>
> Something that still gives me nightmares.  Was one of the reasons I did so poor
> in the "Business for Engineers" classes at ASU where all they did was teach
> Excel and giving presentations.
>
> > Nice! To me, bash and the GNU tools are at
> > least 50% of why I can't be as productive
> > on MS. This is the sort of thing that makes
> > advanced Windows users go, "oooh, that's
> > pretty cool."
> >
> > Wanna do a presentation or demo of CLI-power
> > at Install Fest?
> >
> > my favorite quickie for new users:
> >
> > $ apropos file
> >     (too many results)
> > $ apropos file | grep -i compress
> >     (ahh, that's better)
> >
> > Let's see you try that on Windows :)
> >
> > On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, Kevin Brown wrote:
> >
> > > Came home tonite and got onto my Workstation and noticed that my IceWM session
> > > from the server was gone.  Sometimes it disappears because the two boxes lose
> > > contact with each other.  So I logged into the box and exported the DISPLAY
> > > varaiable and restarted IceWM.  Then it occured to me that I could make this
> > > much easier for myself.
> > >
> > > Played around with ps, grep, and awk and got something that would find the users
> > > who have icewm running.  X is never run directly on the box because the only
> > > time I sit at it is if it goes down.  So, I decided to muck with my
> > > .bash_profile and see if I could auto fire off icewm from me just logging in.
> > > Short story made shorter, yep.  Only a little basic thing, but since I rarely do
> > > any coding (shell or otherwise) I think it was pretty good.  Great thing is, it
> > > will only fire up icewm if I don't already have a copy up.
> > >
> > > username=`ps -ef | grep <username>.*[0-9].icewm | awk '{print $1}'`
> > >
> > > if [ ! Xhellgate = X$username ]
> > > then
> > >         echo "IceWM not running on your display"
> > >         export DISPLAY=<my ip>:0.0
> > >         icewm &
> > > fi
> > >
> > > Guess I can later try and add some more sanity checking, but this works for now
> > > :)
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