Little bash programming

[Kevin Brown]

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
> > :)