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Terminal - Commands tagged function - 87 results

mkalias () { echo "alias $1=\"$2\"" >> ~\.bash_aliases }

2013-01-14 13:56:35

User: xr09

Functions: echo

Tags: alias function

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Function to create an alias on the fly

Is used like this:

mkalias rmcache "rm -rfv app/cache/*"

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function map() { [ -n "$1" ] && alias $1="cd `pwd`" || alias | grep "'cd "; }

2013-01-11 13:32:26

User: b1067606

Functions: alias grep

Tags: alias cd function pwd

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Quickly create an alias for changing into the current directory

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typeset -f

This is sample output - yours may be different.

% typeset -f
__colormgrcomp () 
{ 
    local all c s='
' IFS=' ''      ''
';
    local cur="${COMP_WORDS[COMP_CWORD]}";
    if [ $# -gt 2 ]; then
        cur="$3";
    fi;
    for c in $1;
    do
        case "$c$4" in 
            *.)
                all="$all$c$4$s"
            ;;
            *)
                all="$all$c$4 $s"
            ;;
        esac;
    done;
    IFS=$s;
    COMPREPLY=($(compgen -P "$2" -W "$all" -- "$cur"));
    return
}
[...]

%typeset -F
declare -f __colormgrcomp
declare -f __contains_word
declare -f __dbus_send
declare -f __dconf
declare -f __drbdadm_all_resources
declare -f __drbdadm_commands
declare -f __drbdadm_drbdsetup_options
declare -f __drbdadm_options
declare -f __drbdadm_resources_by_status
declare -f __expand_tilde_by_ref
declare -f __filter_units_by_property
declare -f __get_active_units
declare -f __get_all_seats
declare -f __get_all_sessions
declare -f __get_all_units
declare -f __get_all_users
declare -f __get_cword_at_cursor_by_ref
declare -f __get_disabled_units
declare -f __get_enabled_units
declare -f __get_failed_units
declare -f __get_inactive_units
declare -f __get_masked_units
declare -f __git_aliased_command
declare -f __git_aliases
declare -f __git_complete_file
declare -f __git_complete_remote_or_refspec
declare -f __git_complete_revlist
declare -f __git_complete_revlist_file
declare -f __git_complete_strategy
declare -f __git_compute_all_commands
declare -f __git_compute_merge_strategies
declare -f __git_compute_porcelain_commands
declare -f __git_config_get_set_variables
declare -f __git_find_on_cmdline
declare -f __git_has_doubledash
declare -f __git_heads
declare -f __git_list_all_commands
declare -f __git_list_merge_strategies
declare -f __git_list_porcelain_commands
declare -f __git_match_ctag
declare -f __git_pretty_aliases
declare -f __git_ps1
declare -f __git_ps1_show_upstream
declare -f __git_reassemble_comp_words_by_ref
declare -f __git_refs
declare -f __git_refs2
declare -f __git_refs_remotes
declare -f __git_remotes
declare -f __git_tags
declare -f __gitcomp
declare -f __gitcomp_1
declare -f __gitcomp_nl
declare -f __gitdir
declare -f __grub_dir
declare -f __grub_get_last_option
declare -f __grub_get_options_from_help
declare -f __grub_get_options_from_usage
declare -f __grub_list_menuentries
declare -f __grub_list_modules
declare -f __grubcomp
declare -f __ltrim_colon_completions
declare -f __parse_options
declare -f __pkconcomp
declare -f __reassemble_comp_words_by_ref
declare -f __systemctl
declare -f _alias
declare -f _allowed_groups
declare -f _allowed_users
declare -f _aria2c
declare -f _available_interfaces
declare -f _bzr_lazy
declare -f _calibre
declare -f _calibre_server
declare -f _calibre_smtp
declare -f _cd
declare -f _cd_devices
declare -f _colormgr
declare -f _command
declare -f _command_offset
declare -f _complete_as_root
declare -f _completion_loader
declare -f _configured_interfaces
declare -f _count_args
declare -f _cr_createrepo
declare -f _cr_mergerepo
declare -f _cr_modifyrepo
declare -f _django_completion
declare -f _dkms
declare -f _drbdadm
declare -f _dvd_devices
declare -f _ebook_device
declare -f _ebook_device_ls
declare -f _ebook_meta
declare -f _ebook_viewer
declare -f _epub_fix
declare -f _expand
declare -f _fetch_ebook_metadata
declare -f _filedir
declare -f _filedir_xspec
declare -f _filename_parts
declare -f _fstypes
declare -f _gant
declare -f _get_comp_words_by_ref
declare -f _get_cword
declare -f _get_first_arg
declare -f _get_pword
declare -f _gids
declare -f _git
declare -f _git_add
declare -f _git_am
declare -f _git_apply
declare -f _git_archive
declare -f _git_bisect
declare -f _git_branch
declare -f _git_bundle
declare -f _git_checkout
declare -f _git_cherry
declare -f _git_cherry_pick
declare -f _git_clean
declare -f _git_clone
declare -f _git_commit
declare -f _git_config
declare -f _git_describe
declare -f _git_diff
declare -f _git_difftool
declare -f _git_fetch
declare -f _git_format_patch
declare -f _git_fsck
declare -f _git_gc
declare -f _git_gitk
declare -f _git_grep
declare -f _git_help
declare -f _git_init
declare -f _git_log
declare -f _git_ls_files
declare -f _git_ls_remote
declare -f _git_ls_tree
declare -f _git_merge
declare -f _git_merge_base
declare -f _git_mergetool
declare -f _git_mv
declare -f _git_name_rev
declare -f _git_notes
declare -f _git_pull
declare -f _git_push
declare -f _git_rebase
declare -f _git_reflog
declare -f _git_remote
declare -f _git_replace
declare -f _git_reset
declare -f _git_revert
declare -f _git_rm
declare -f _git_send_email
declare -f _git_shortlog
declare -f _git_show
declare -f _git_show_branch
declare -f _git_stage
declare -f _git_stash
declare -f _git_submodule
declare -f _git_svn
declare -f _git_tag
declare -f _git_whatchanged
declare -f _gitk
declare -f _grub_editenv
declare -f _grub_install
declare -f _grub_mkconfig
declare -f _grub_mkfont
declare -f _grub_mkimage
declare -f _grub_mkpasswd_pbkdf2
declare -f _grub_mkrescue
declare -f _grub_probe
declare -f _grub_script_check
declare -f _grub_set_entry
declare -f _grub_setup
declare -f _have
declare -f _hg
declare -f _hg_bookmarks
declare -f _hg_branches
declare -f _hg_cmd
declare -f _hg_cmd_bisect
declare -f _hg_cmd_bookmarks
declare -f _hg_cmd_email
declare -f _hg_cmd_qclone
declare -f _hg_cmd_qcommit
declare -f _hg_cmd_qdelete
declare -f _hg_cmd_qfinish
declare -f _hg_cmd_qfold
declare -f _hg_cmd_qgoto
declare -f _hg_cmd_qguard
declare -f _hg_cmd_qheader
declare -f _hg_cmd_qpop
declare -f _hg_cmd_qpush
declare -f _hg_cmd_qqueue
declare -f _hg_cmd_qrename
declare -f _hg_cmd_qsave
declare -f _hg_cmd_qselect
declare -f _hg_cmd_shelve
declare -f _hg_cmd_sign
declare -f _hg_cmd_strip
declare -f _hg_cmd_transplant
declare -f _hg_cmd_unshelve
declare -f _hg_command_specific
declare -f _hg_commands
declare -f _hg_count_non_option
declare -f _hg_ext_mq_guards
declare -f _hg_ext_mq_patchlist
declare -f _hg_ext_mq_queues
declare -f _hg_labels
declare -f _hg_opt_qguard
declare -f _hg_paths
declare -f _hg_repos
declare -f _hg_shelves
declare -f _hg_status
declare -f _hg_tags
declare -f _init_completion
declare -f _installed_modules
declare -f _ip_addresses
declare -f _kernel_versions
declare -f _kernels
declare -f _known_hosts
declare -f _known_hosts_real
declare -f _loexp_
declare -f _longopt
declare -f _lrf2lrs
declare -f _lrfviewer
declare -f _mac_addresses
declare -f _minimal
declare -f _modules
declare -f _ncpus
declare -f _ooexp_
declare -f _optcomplete
declare -f _optirun
declare -f _parse_help
declare -f _parse_usage
declare -f _pci_ids
declare -f _pgids
declare -f _phoronix-test-suite-show
declare -f _pids
declare -f _pkcon
declare -f _pkcon_search
declare -f _pnames
declare -f _python_django_completion
declare -f _quote_readline_by_ref
declare -f _realcommand
declare -f _rl_enabled
declare -f _root_command
declare -f _scout
declare -f _service
declare -f _services
declare -f _shells
declare -f _signals
declare -f _split_longopt
declare -f _strip
declare -f _subdirectories
declare -f _systemctl
declare -f _systemd_loginctl
declare -f _sysvdirs
declare -f _task
declare -f _task_get_config
declare -f _task_get_tags
declare -f _task_offer_projects
declare -f _terms
declare -f _tilde
declare -f _uids
declare -f _upvar
declare -f _upvars
declare -f _usb_ids
declare -f _user_at_host
declare -f _usergroup
declare -f _userland
declare -f _variables
declare -f _xfunc
declare -f _xinetd_services
declare -f _xl
declare -f _yast2
declare -f _zypper
declare -f command_not_found_handle
declare -f dequote
declare -f doaliasize
declare -f e16workspace
declare -f getsysproxyvar
declare -f getvalue
declare -f insalias
declare -f path
declare -f ppwd
declare -f quote
declare -f quote_readline
declare -f remount
declare -f spwd
declare -f startx

2012-09-17 13:48:39

User: kLeZ

Tags: bash function

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List bash functions defined in .bash_profile or .bashrc

typeset command gives to stdout all the functions defined in a bash session, -f and -F switches are for: all functions names with body (-f) and all functions names only (-F).

buf () { oldname=$1; if [ "$oldname" != "" ]; then datepart="$(date +%Y-%m-%d).bak"; firstpart=`echo $oldname | cut -d "." -f 1`; newname=`echo $oldname | sed s/$firstpart/$firstpart.$datepart/`; cp -iv ${oldname} ${newname}; fi }

2012-08-15 08:31:44

User: juliushibert

Functions: cp cut sed

Tags: backup date function cp

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Backup a file with a date-time stamp

Appends the input file with the date format YYYY-MM-DD.bak. Also runs silently if you remove the -v on the cp at the end of the function.

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function _xterm_cwds() { for pid in $(pidof -- -zsh) $(pidof zsh); do reply+=$(readlink /proc/$pid/cwd) done }; function xcd() { cd $1 }; compctl -K _xterm_cwds xcd

2012-07-12 19:59:46

User: aartur

Functions: cd pidof readlink

Tags: function completion zsh cwd xterm

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Autocomplete directories (CWDs) of other ZSH processes

It gives a 'xcd' command for changing directory to one of CWDs of other ZSH processes (typically running in a terminal emulator). Useful for single-windowed terminal emulators like XTerm or Rxvt which don't have ability to pass CWD of one shell to another.

members () { dscl . -list /Users | while read user; do printf "$user "; dsmemberutil checkmembership -U "$user" -G "$*"; done | grep "is a member" | cut -d " " -f 1; };

2012-05-20 11:34:33

User: eduo

Functions: cut grep printf read

Tags: function osx group dsmemberutil

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OSX - Function to list all members for a given group

Group membership in OS X is a mish-mash of standards that end up meaning there's almost a half-dozen of ways to belong to a group, what with group inheritance and automatic assignment. This means there's no easy command to find out all groups a user belongs to. The only sensible way then is to list all users and then query each user for membership.

NOTE: This is a function. Once input you can execute it by calling with a groupname.

function have_here { find "${@:-.}" -type d $ -name .git -o -name .svn -o -name .bzr -o -name CVS -o -name .hg -o -name __pycache__ $ -prune -o -type f -print; }

2012-05-20 05:31:26

User: syscomet

Functions: find

Tags: function

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List files under current directory, ignoring repository copies.

Ever done a find to get content and been messed up by .git, .svn, .hg or the like spamming your results? Did you really want to grep over every copy of the file that existed in your git history?

Replace:

grep -r PATTERN .

with:

grep PATTERN -- $(have_here)

or if you really have too many files to put in one argv:

have_here | xargs grep PATTERN --

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regenerateCSR () { openssl genrsa -out $2 2048; openssl x509 -x509toreq -in $1 -out $3 -signkey $2; }

2012-02-17 02:45:26

User: mrnetops

Tags: bash openssl function

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new ssl key and csr based on a previous ssl certificate

regenerateCSR original.crt new.key new.csr

mkgo newdir

2011-12-11 07:31:35

User: awoods

Tags: bash function

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mkgo - Create a Directory and immediate go into it

# put this in your .bashrc

mkgo (){

mkdir $1 && cd $1

}

calc() { echo "scale=4; ${*//,/.}" | bc -l; }

2011-10-24 19:58:20

User: fpunktk

Functions: bc echo

Tags: bash function python calc

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Command line calculator

This is an "argument calculator" funktion. The precision is set to 4 and you can use dot (.) or comma (,) as decimal mark (which is great for german users with a comma on the numpad).

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python -ic "from __future__ import division; from math import *; from random import *"

2011-10-24 19:47:27

User: fpunktk

Functions: python

Tags: bash function python calc

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Command line calculator

This opens a python command line. You can use math and random and float-division is enabled (without appending .0 to integers). I just don't know how to specify a standard precision.

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alias calc='python -ic "from math import *; from random import *"'

2011-10-24 08:15:41

User: Bonster

Functions: alias

Tags: bash function python calc

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Command line calculator

use python as calculator, press ctrl+d to exit

reminder: when doing factions add atleast one decimal number like so

22.0/7 or 22/7.0

xpath () { xmllint --format --shell "$2" <<< "cat $1" | sed '/^\/ >/d' }

2011-10-05 07:45:16

User: sharfah

Functions: sed

Tags: function xml xmllint xpath

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xpath function

This function uses xmllint to evaluate xpaths.

Usage: xpath /some/xpath XMLfile

quietly() { "$@" > /dev/null 2>&1; }

2011-10-04 06:45:42

User: wipu

Tags: redirection function parameter expansion

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Suppress output of loud commands you don't want to hear from

This works even if there are spaces in any word in the command line.

sshmysql() { ssh -L 13306:127.0.0.1:3306 -N $* & }

2011-09-01 10:21:55

User: peterRepeater

Functions: ssh

Tags: mysql ssh function ssh tunnel

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Function to bind MySQL hostport to forward remote MySQL connection to localhost.

Create a secure tunnelled connection for access to a remote MySQL database.

For example, connect with MySQL Workbench to root@127.0.0.1:13306.

timeDNS () { { for x in "${local_DNS}" "208.67.222.222" "208.67.220.220" "198.153.192.1" "198.153.194.1" "156.154.70.1" "156.154.71.1" "8.8.8.8" "8.8.4.4"; do ({ echo -n "$x "; dig @"$x" "$*"|grep Query ; }|sponge &) done ; } | sort -n -k5 ; }

2011-08-18 01:11:53

User: unixmonkey365

Functions: dig echo grep sort

Tags: function dig sponge

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a function to find the fastest free DNS server

Evoke from the command like as:

timeDNS commandlinefu.com

This isn't too terribly practical, but it is a good code example of using subshells to run the queries in parallel and the use of an "anonymous function" (a/k/a "inline group") to group i/o.

I'm assuming you have already defined your local DNS cache as ${local_DNS}, (here, it's 192.168.0.1).

You do need to install `moreutils` to get `sponge`.

If you're willing to wait, a slower version w/o sponge, (and w/o sorting), is this:

DNS () { for x in "192.168.0.1" "208.67.222.222" "208.67.220.220" "198.153.192.1" "198.153.194.1" "156.154.70.1" "156.154.71.1" "8.8.8.8" "8.8.4.4"; do (echo -n "$x "; dig @"$x" "$*"|grep Query) ; done ; }

lsr() { find "${@:-.}" -print0 |sort -z |xargs -0 ls $LS_OPTIONS -dla; }

This is sample output - yours may be different.

=[9 h3xx@necronomicon ~ ]= $ lsr ~/.cron
drwx------ 10 h3xx users  304 Aug 13 01:45 /home/h3xx/.cron/
drwx------  2 h3xx users  264 Aug 14 03:09 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01d/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  466 Jun 10 13:10 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01d/clean-chrome-tmp.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users 4973 Aug 13 22:59 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01d/clean-maildirs.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  117 Aug  9 18:32 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01d/clean-thumbscache.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users   50 Aug 10  2010 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01d/linuxcounter.sh*
-rw-r--r--  1 h3xx users 1264 Oct 12  2007 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01d/mkbackups.sh
-rw-------  1 h3xx users  375 Oct  7  2005 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01d/rcsync.sh
drwx------  2 h3xx users  224 Aug 13 09:14 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01h/
-rw-r--r--  1 h3xx users  937 Dec 31  2010 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01h/.bash-history.sh-notworking
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  433 Aug 13 09:14 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01h/getmail-3.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users 4427 Jul  6  2010 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01h/randsig.pl*
-rw-r--r--  1 h3xx users 1358 Aug 17  2010 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01h/stupid-curl
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  172 Aug 13 00:09 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01h/waffles-log.sh*
drwxr-xr-x  2 h3xx users   80 Dec 31  2010 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01m/
-rw-------  1 h3xx users  218 Mar 27  2006 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.01m/vidcap.sh
drwx--x--x  2 h3xx users   48 Mar 21  2008 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.05m/
drwx------  2 h3xx users  160 Aug  2 03:31 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.07d/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  140 Apr 20  2009 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.07d/clean-vim-views.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  165 Apr 17  2008 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.07d/insert_bash_history.sh*
-rwx--x--x  1 h3xx users   92 Sep 28  2010 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.07d/logrotate.sh*
drwxr-xr-x  2 h3xx users   80 Aug 14 03:09 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.15m/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  433 Aug 13 09:14 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.15m/getmail-1.sh*
drwxr-xr-x  2 h3xx users   96 Aug 14 03:09 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.30d/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  752 Aug 13 23:50 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.30d/bogofilter-db-maintenance.sh*
drwx------  2 h3xx users  144 Aug 13 09:14 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.30m/
-rwxr-xr-x  1 h3xx users  367 Jan 23  2010 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.30m/dyndns-update*
-rw-r--r--  1 h3xx users  433 Aug 13 09:14 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.30m/getmail-2.sh
lrwxrwxrwx  1 h3xx users   26 Aug 18  2008 /home/h3xx/.cron/cron.30m/process-spam.sh -> ../../libs/process-spam.sh
-rwx--x--x  1 h3xx users 4125 Aug 13 01:41 /home/h3xx/.cron/install-crontab*
-rwx--x--x  1 h3xx users 4122 Aug 13 01:34 /home/h3xx/.cron/install-crontab~*
=[9 h3xx@necronomicon ~ ]= $

2011-08-15 03:10:58

User: h3xx

Functions: find ls sort xargs

Tags: sort find ls xargs function list

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Sorted, recursive long file listing

Tells you everything you could ever want to know about all files and subdirectories. Great for package creators. Totally secure too.

On my Slackware box, this gets set upon login:

LS_OPTIONS='-F -b -T 0 --color=auto'

and

alias ls='/bin/ls $LS_OPTIONS'

which works great.

mergepdf() { gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=merged.pdf "$@" }

2011-07-28 11:12:15

User: peterRepeater

Functions: gs

Tags: pdf merge function ghostscript gs,

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Merge PDFs with Ghostscript wrapped in a function

This is an expansion on a previous entry, which I've wrapped in a function and placed in my profile. The "$@" is a positional parameter, much like "$*", but the parameters are passed on intact, without interpretation or expansion; so you can simply call the function like this:

mergepdf *

This will output a merged PDF of all PDFs in the current directory. Alternatively, you can simply list them like so:

mergepdf 00.pdf 01.pdf 02.pdf ...

N.B. Passing a wildcard will merge all PDFs in the current directory in name order, e.g. 00.pdf 01.pdf aa.pdf ab.pdf

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alias cdd="history -a && grep '^ *[0-9]* *cd ' ~/.bash_history| tail -10 >>~/.bash_history && history -r ~/.bash_history"

2011-07-13 09:44:16

User: knoppix5

Functions: alias

Tags: history bash alias function

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Easy way to scroll up und down to change to one of n last visited directories.

This alias is meant to append n (here is n=10) most recently used cd commands to the bottom of history file. This way you can easily change to one of previous visited directories simply by hitting 1-10 times arrow up key.

Hint: You can make more aliases implying the same rule for any set of frequently used long and complex commands like: mkisof, rdesktop, gpg...

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map() { if [ "$1" != "" ]; then alias $1="cd `pwd`"; fi }

2011-07-11 15:46:19

User: javidjamae

Functions: alias

Tags: alias cd function pwd

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Quickly create an alias for changing into the current directory

Put the function in your .bashrc and use "map [alias]" to create the alias you want. Just be careful to not override an existing alias.

find_alternatives(){ for i;do which "$i" >/dev/null && { echo "$i"; return 0;};done;return 1;}

2011-01-06 19:53:46

User: eightmillion

Functions: echo return which

Tags: function environment

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Pick the first program found from a list of alternatives

This function is used to set environmental variables from a list of alternatives depending on what's installed on the system. It returns the first program found in the list.

Example usage:

export BROWSER=$(find_alternatives chromium-browser google-chrome opera firefox firefox-bin iceweasel konqueror w3m lynx)

export EDITOR=$(find_alternatives vim nano pico emacs kate)

export PAGER=$(find_alternatives vimpager less most more pg)

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flipf(){ if [ -f "$1" -a -f "$2" ]; then mv "$1" "$1.$$" && mv "$2" "$1" && mv "$1.$$" "$2" || echo "$!"; else echo "Missing a file: $!"; fi; }

2010-12-16 10:38:28

User: Void42

Functions: echo mv

Tags: mv function swap

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Function that swaps the filenames of two given files.

(Changed to "bartonskis" suggestion.)

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qrurl() { curl -sS "http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?chs=200x200&cht=qr&chld=H|0&chl=$1" -o - | display -filter point -resize 600x600 png:-; }

2010-12-16 04:42:05

User: __

Tags: ImageMagick curl function display

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Create QR codes from a URL.

like 7300, but doesn't clutter your working directory with old qr.*.png files. This will get the QR barcode, and send it right into ImageMagick's 'display' tool. Usage is the same as 7300; just call this function followed by the URL:

qrurl http://xkcd.com

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buf() { cp -v $1 ${1/${1%%.*}/$f-$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")};}

2010-12-15 12:16:03

User: unefunge

Functions: cp date

Tags: backup date function cp

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Backup a file with a date-time stamp

even shorter (infix) version.

buf() { f=${1%%.*};e=${1/$f/};cp -v $1 $f-$(date +"%Y%m%d_%H%M%S")$e;}

2010-12-15 09:50:04

User: unefunge

Functions: cp date

Tags: backup date function cp

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Backup a file with a date-time stamp

"infix" version in bash (4.x+)

Remove -v to make it silent.

BTW: The OP forgot to use "cat" and "nmap" ;-) I had a good laugh though.

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