3 # This defines some general, useful functions.
5 if [ ! -z "$SHELL_DEBUG" ]; then
6 echo function definitions begin...
9 # a handy little method that can be used for date strings. it was getting
10 # really tiresome how many different ways the script did the date formatting.
11 function date_stringer() {
12 date +"%Y_%m_%e_%H%M_%S" | tr -d '/\n/'
15 # makes a directory of the name specified and then tries to change the
16 # current directory to that directory.
18 if [ ! -d "$1" ]; then mkdir -p "$1"; fi
22 # locates a process given a search pattern to match in the process list.
24 PID_DUMP="$(mktemp "$TMP/zz_pidlist.XXXXXX")"
25 appropriate_pattern='s/^[-a-zA-Z_0-9][-a-zA-Z_0-9]* *\([0-9][0-9]*\).*$/\1/p'
26 # pattern to use for peeling off the process numbers.
28 # flags to pass to ps if any special ones are needed.
29 if [ "$OS" = "Windows_NT" ]; then
30 # on win32, there is some weirdness to support msys.
31 appropriate_pattern='s/^[ ]*\([0-9][0-9]*\).*$/\1/p'
34 /bin/ps $extra_flags wuax >$PID_DUMP
35 # remove the first line of the file, search for the pattern the
36 # user wants to find, and just pluck the process ids out of the
38 PIDS_SOUGHT=$(cat $PID_DUMP \
41 | sed -n -e "$appropriate_pattern")
42 if [ ! -z "$PIDS_SOUGHT" ]; then echo "$PIDS_SOUGHT"; fi
46 # finds all processes matching the pattern specified and shows their full
47 # process listing (whereas psfind just lists process ids).
50 if [ ! -z "$p" ]; then
52 echo "Processes containing \"$1\"..."
54 if [ -n "$IS_DARWIN" ]; then
57 # only print the header the first time.
58 if [ -z "$fuzil_sentinel" ]; then
61 ps $i -w -u | sed -e '1d'
66 # cases besides darwin OS (for macs).
68 if [ "$OS" = "Windows_NT" ]; then
69 # special case for windows.
73 ps $extra_flags | grep "^ *$curr"
76 # normal OSes can handle a nice simple query.
83 # an unfortunately similarly named function to the above 'ps' as in process
84 # methods, but this 'ps' stands for postscript. this takes a postscript file
85 # and converts it into pcl3 printer language and then ships it to the printer.
86 # this mostly makes sense for an environment where one's default printer is
87 # pcl. if the input postscript causes ghostscript to bomb out, there has been
88 # some good success running ps2ps on the input file and using the cleaned
89 # postscript file for printing.
90 function ps2pcl2lpr() {
92 gs -sDEVICE=pcl3 -sOutputFile=- -sPAPERSIZE=letter "$i" | lpr -l
97 sudo /etc/init.d/alsasound restart
100 # switches from a /X/path form to an X:/ form.
101 function msys_to_dos_path() {
102 # we always remove dos slashes in favor of forward slashes.
103 echo "$1" | sed -e 's/\\/\//g' | sed -e 's/\/\([a-zA-Z]\)\/\(.*\)/\1:\/\2/'
106 # switches from an X:/ form to an /X/path form.
107 function dos_to_msys_path() {
108 # we always remove dos slashes in favor of forward slashes.
109 echo "$1" | sed -e 's/\\/\//g' | sed -e 's/\([a-zA-Z]\):\/\(.*\)/\/\1\/\2/'
112 # su function: makes su perform a login.
113 # for some OSes, this transfers the X authority information to the new login.
115 # decide if we think this is debian or ubuntu or a variant.
116 DEBIAN_LIKE=$(if [ ! -z "$(grep -i debian /etc/issue)" \
117 -o ! -z "$(grep -i ubuntu /etc/issue)" ]; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi)
119 if [ $DEBIAN_LIKE -eq 1 ]; then
120 # debian currently requires the full version which imports X authority
121 # information for su.
123 # get the x authority info for our current user.
124 source $FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/x_win/get_x_auth.sh
126 if [ -z "$X_auth_info" ]; then
127 # if there's no authentication info to pass along, we just do a normal su.
130 # under X, we update the new login's authority info with the previous
132 (unset XAUTHORITY; /bin/su -l $* -c "$X_auth_info ; export DISPLAY=$DISPLAY ; bash")
135 # non-debian supposedly doesn't need the extra overhead any more.
136 # or at least suse doesn't, which is the other one we've tested on.
140 # relabel the console after returning.
141 bash $FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/tty/label_terminal_with_infos.sh
144 # sudo function wraps the normal sudo by ensuring we replace the terminal
145 # label if they're doing an su with the sudo.
147 local first_command="$1"
149 if [ "$first_command" == "su" ]; then
150 # yep, they were doing an su, but they're back now.
151 bash $FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/tty/label_terminal_with_infos.sh
155 # buntar is a long needed uncompressing macro that feeds into tar -x.
156 # it takes a list of bz2 file names and extracts their contents into
157 # sequentially numbered directories.
162 pushd buntar_$index &>/dev/null
164 # if the filename has no directory component, we will assume it used to
165 # be above our unzipping directory here.
166 if [ "$(basename $file)" = $file ]; then
169 bunzip2 -d -c $file | tar -xf -
171 index=$(expr $index + 1)
175 # trashes the .#blah files that cvs and svn leave behind when finding conflicts.
176 # this kind of assumes you've already checked them for any salient facts.
177 function clean_cvs_junk() {
179 find $i -follow -type f -iname ".#*" -exec perl $FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/files/safedel.pl {} ";"
183 # recreates all the generated files that the feisty meow scripts use.
184 function regenerate() {
185 bash $FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/core/bootstrap_shells.sh
187 local wheres_nechung=$(which nechung)
188 if [ -z "$wheres_nechung" ]; then
189 echo "The nechung oracle program cannot be found. You may want to consider"
190 echo "rebuilding the feisty meow applications with this command:"
191 echo " bash $FEISTY_MEOW_DIR/scripts/generator/bootstrap_build.sh"
197 if [ ! -z "$SHELL_DEBUG" ]; then echo function definitions end....; fi