Little bash programming

[Robert Bushman]

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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