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grab all commandlinefu shell functions into a single file, suitable for sourcing.

Terminal - grab all commandlinefu shell functions into a single file, suitable for sourcing.
export QQ=$(mktemp -d);(cd $QQ; curl -s -O http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes/plaintext/[0-2400:25];for i in $(perl -ne 'print "$1\n" if( /^(\w+\(\))/ )' *|sort -u);do grep -h -m1 -B1 $i *; done)|grep -v '^--' > clf.sh;rm -r $QQ
2010-01-30 19:47:42
User: bartonski
Functions: cd export grep mktemp perl sort
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grab all commandlinefu shell functions into a single file, suitable for sourcing.

Each shell function has its own summary line, as a comment. If there are multiple shell functions with the same name, the function with the highest number of votes is put into the file.

Note: added 'grep -v' to the end of the pipeline, to eliminate extraneous lines containing only '--'. Thanks to matthewbauer for pointing this out.

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Terminal - Alternatives
curl -s http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes/plaintext/[0-2400:25] | grep -oP "^\w+\(\)\ *{.*}"
2010-01-31 05:14:11
User: matthewbauer
Functions: grep
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Much simpler but not as many features as the alternative.

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Nice idea but it has all these "--" lines. If you delete those everything seems to be ok.

Comment by matthewbauer 30 weeks and 4 days ago

When I wrote the command, I didn't re-direct to a file... didn't notice the '--' lines.

Tried to add a grep -v to remove them, but pushed the command over 255 characters, so I'll have to golf it a little....

Comment by bartonski 30 weeks and 4 days ago

I've golfed the command and fixed the '--' problem... trouble is that I'm still getting several shell functions with the same name. The problem is that while 'grep -m1' should only include the first match on a given pattern, it seems that it's including the first match *per file*... I'll have to give this some thought.

Also, as an aside: there are a number of shell functions which have syntax errors... by far the most common is omitting the final ';' before the closing brace.

Comment by bartonski 30 weeks and 4 days ago

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