Comments on: A few scripts and aliases

By: karthik

karthik — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 07:10:23 +0000

I don’t know if you use elinks to open multiple URLs in tabs. (I do.) In any case, it’s a simple fix to generalize the elinks script a bit:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/elinks $*
…

By: Tom Adams

Tom Adams — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:11:05 +0000

I use mkdir/cd too. Very handy.

I also have an alias to run an HTTP server which serves . as the document root.

alias srv=”ruby -rwebrick -e ‘s=WEBrick::HTTPServer.new(:Port=>8080,\ ocumentRoot=>Dir::pwd);trap(\”INT\”){s.shutdown};s.start’”

I’m very happy about WEBrick being included in Ruby. Means it works everywhere. Great for ad-hoc file sharing between machines and/or people on the same network (handy for streaming, letting housemates download files).

By: IceBrain

IceBrain — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 13:29:04 +0000

I use a “mute” alias too, but it toggles the mute setting, so a second call restores the volume to the same level it was.

I use a “mkcd” too, which calls mkdir $1 && cd $1, so I can make a directory and change to it directly.

But my most elaborate alias (which is not exactly an alias, it’s a ZSH function) is “tube”, which runs a python script that searches for the given keywords in youtube and returns the video URL, which is then passed to mplayer running in a hidden screen session