Attack of the shell helpers
Everyone who uses the command line regularly has a bunch of (at least for him) useful helper scripts. I now took the liberty to put mine on github for general consumption.
You can find them at: http://github.com/milianw/shell-helpers/tree/master
Some of these might be more useful than others, you decide :) Personally, I can’t live without the following:
apupgrade
a shortcut to update your Debian system with one command - no questions asked `openurl`
opens a given URL in an already opened browser instance or starts a new browser session. Not only one browser is checked. I use it because firefox is slow to start and konqueror is blazingly fast to start. But when firefox is already open I want to use that. `xerr`
shortcut for fast error checking in your Xorg log `clipboard`
makes KDE4 Klipper contents available on the CLI (read _and_ write access!) `debug`
shortcut to start a GDB session: debug APP APP_ARGS is all you have to do. Its basically the same as doing:
$ gdb APP
> run APP_ARGS
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Comment by ben (not verified) (2009-03-03 11:42:00)
Hei, thanks for the great scripts. especially the open[editor|url] are really useful! Do you know the bash-script abcde? imo it’s the best script to rip a music cds :-)
Comment by Anonymous (not verified) (2009-03-03 00:53:00)
gdb —args app args
Comment by Milian Wolff (2009-03-03 01:02:00)
Well, yes thanks!
That makes the debug script pretty obsolete, that alias should do the job: