Makes you look busy

alias busy='my_file=$(find /usr/include -type f | sort -R | head -n 1); my_len=$(wc -l $my_file | awk "{print $1}"); let "r = $RANDOM % $my_len" 2>/dev/null; vim +$r $my_file'
This makes an alias for a command named 'busy'. The 'busy' command opens a random file in /usr/include to a random line with vim. Drop this in your .bash_aliases and make sure that file is initialized in your .bashrc.

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By: busybee
2010-03-09 21:48:41

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  • Enhancement for the 'busy' command originally posted by busybee : less chars, no escape issue, and most important it exclude small files ( opening a 5 lines file isn't that persuasive I think ;) ) This makes an alias for a command named 'busy'. The 'busy' command opens a random file in /usr/include to a random line with vim.


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    alias busy='rnd_file=$(find /usr/include -type f -size +5k | sort -R | head -n 1) && vim +$((RANDOM%$(wc -l $rnd_file | cut -f1 -d" "))) $rnd_file'
    frntn · 2011-10-16 00:05:59 2

What Others Think

i like the idea :D
RanyAlbeg · 690 weeks and 2 days ago
Fails here due to sort not knowing -R. CentOS 5.3 sort (GNU coreutils) 5.97
DaveQB · 690 weeks and 1 day ago
It always takes me to the last line because the braces in the awk statement aren't properly escaped for zsh by the doublequotes. The following works for me: my_file=$(find /usr/include -type f | sort -R | head -n 1); my_len=$(wc -l $my_file | awk '{print $1}'); let "r = $RANDOM % $my_len" 2>/dev/null; vim +$r $my_file
tremby · 690 weeks ago
Oops -- actually, in the alias statement as you wrote it it does in fact work fine. Interesting. My post above applied when using the body of the command alone on the commandline.
tremby · 690 weeks ago
Wow. That takes me back to the days when video games had "boss keys" that would show a fake spreadsheet or some such business-baloney. Of course, if you're at a command line, as this command assumes, I'm not quite sure what you'd want to hide from your boss... ASCII art Pr0n?
hackerb9 · 689 weeks and 6 days ago
you must add a backspace to escape the $ character in the awk argument and make it work: alias busy='my_file=$(find /usr/include -type f | sort -R | head -n 1); my_len=$(wc -l $my_file | awk "{print $1}"); let "r = $RANDOM % $my_len" 2>/dev/null; vim +$r $my_file'
fsilveira · 677 weeks and 2 days ago
you must add a backspace to escape the $ character in the awk argument and make it work: alias busy='my_file=$(find /usr/include -type f | sort -R | head -n 1); my_len=$(wc -l $my_file | awk "{print \$1}"); let "r = $RANDOM % $my_len" 2>/dev/null; vim +$r $my_file'
fsilveira · 677 weeks and 2 days ago
sorry, it works either way, but my fix makes the vim line jump work as expected by the author. (is there a way to remove my first reply?)
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