At some point, I wrote. “This page never seems to age, …” it just contains some idioms I like to use in my .login and/or .bashrc files. I don’t do this so often as when I started the page but the MAC keeps it in the house, and I have installed cygwin on nearly all my windows systems. However, microsoft implemented bash on windows 10 and so things finally changed. …

C:

cd /mnt/c

Aliases

alias whence="type -p "
export PS1="B$ "

Paths

contains()
{
# $1 must be set and grep must be in the PATH
    echo $1 | grep $2 > /dev/null
    code=$?
    return $code
}

for directory in /usr/local/bin /usr/java/bin
do
contains $PATH $directory
if [ $? ! = 0 ]
then
    PATH=$directory:$PATH
fi
done

Fashions change

for directory in /usr/local/bin /usr/java/bin;do
    contains $PATH $directory
    [ $? ! = 0 ] && PATH=$directory:$PATH
done

This can be done for any PATH like variable such as MANPATH & LD_LIBRARY_PATH. The code above doesn’t test for an empty variable because it is manipulating the $PATH, which is unlikely to be unset. Here is some code that performs the test. NB If we want to add to the MANPATH, we need to capture the default values, or do with the Cobalt Linux, since ti treats the man search path differently depending upon if $MANPATH is set or not.

if [ -z $MANPATH ]
then
# if MANPATH is unset get it
    MANPATH=`cat /etc/man.config | \
    awk '$1 == path {print $2;}' path=MANPATH | \
    tr '\n' ":"
fi

contains $MANPATH ${POSTGRES_HOME}/man
if [ $? != 0 ]
then
    MANPATH=${POSTGRES_HOME}/man
fi
export MANPATH

I should check that BASH implements the -z test in the same way as the Korn shell.

ksh

If I am going to use it

ENV=${HOME}/.kshrc
EDITOR=vi

File Scanner

A file scanner

#!/usr/bin/ksh
typeset -u input
while read  input
do
     print "$input"
     # if you like to add line to some file, then
     # print some >> somefile
     # single > is overwrite = file include only the lastline
done

Links

This was originally posted to davelevy.dyndns.info in 2010.

Much of this is now on github in my ubuntu-tools repo.

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