.bashrc functions for all


Subject: .bashrc functions for all
From: captgoodnight (captgoodnight@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Jan 16 2004 - 10:55:32 AKST


Honored to help penguins. I was smiles after reading about rsync too. I have
an idear, howa about posting your favorite .bashrc functions, I have picked
up a few here and there that a really useful.

# Define some colors first: no worky in mail though ;(
red='\e[0;31m'
RED='\e[1;31m'
blue='\e[0;34m'
BLUE='\e[1;34m'
cyan='\e[0;36m'
CYAN='\e[1;36m'
NC='\e[0m' # No Color

function fe() { find . -name '*'$1'*' -exec $2 {} \; ; } # find a file and
run $2 on it

#perl calc function

calc()
{ perl -wlne'print eval'; }
export -f calc

function swap() # swap 2 filenames around
{
    local TMPFILE=tmp.$$
    mv $1 $TMPFILE
    mv $2 $1
    mv $TMPFILE $2
}

share share share... bests -cg
 

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