Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 02:17:57 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Useful aliases (was Re: cvs commit: ports LEGAL) Message-ID: <19990630021757.E26878@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9906301631130.8049-100000@bragg>; from Kris Kennaway on Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 04:35:09PM %2B0930 References: <19990629235629.A36035@norn.ca.eu.org> <Pine.OSF.4.10.9906301631130.8049-100000@bragg>
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On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 04:35:09PM +0930, a little birdie told me
that Kris Kennaway remarked
>
> I'd hate to see this set a precedent for committing things as ports which are
> much better as trivial shell aliases or 1-line scripts. Maybe instead we could
> create a page of 'useful aliases' or something to which people could make
> their contributions.
Hey, here's one [0] ;>
(ttyp4):{143}% grep formatc .tcshrc
alias formatc 'cat \!* | pr -t -e4 -n" "4'
Most useful as 'formatc program.c | lpr', as it numbers the lines and
whacks your tabs down to 4-char (like all sane tabstops should be [1] ).
[0] I know cat isn't necessary. I'm too lazy to change it.
[1] Note that I locally have a hacked copy of pico (yeah, but some of my
collaborators use it) that, instead of the default hard-coded 8-char
tabstops uses slightly less-hard-coded 4-char tabstops. The things I
do...
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