Little bash programming

[Digital Wokan]

It might, if a Windows user understood the concept of having something other 
than explorer.exe available as their desktop.

On Tuesday 09 July 2002 21:06, Robert Bushman wrote:
> 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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