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-# applies a chown and a chgrp to the files specified, but the user name must
-# have a private group of the same name for this to work.
-function chowngrp {
- chown $*
-# $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9
- chgrp $*
-# $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9
-}
+# a handy little method that can be used for date strings. it was getting
+# really tiresome how many different ways the script did the date formatting.
+function date_stringer() { date +"%Y_%m_%e_%H%M_%S" | tr -d '/\n/' }
# makes a directory of the name specified and then tries to change the
# current directory to that directory.
function mcd {
- if [ ! -d "$1" ]; then mkdir "$1"; fi
+ if [ ! -d "$1" ]; then mkdir -p "$1"; fi
cd "$1"
}
echo "$1" | sed -e 's/\\/\//g' | sed -e 's/\([a-zA-Z]\):\/\(.*\)/\/\1\/\2/'
}
+# su function: makes su perform a login.
+# for some OSes, this transfers the X authority information to the new login.
+function su {
+ # decide if we think this is debian or ubuntu or a variant.
+ DEBIAN_LIKE=$(if [ ! -z "$(grep -i debian /etc/issue)" \
+ -o ! -z "$(grep -i ubuntu /etc/issue)" ]; then echo 1; else echo 0; fi)
+
+ if [ $DEBIAN_LIKE -eq 1 ]; then
+ # debian currently requires the full version which imports X authority
+ # information for su.
+
+ # get the x authority info for our current user.
+ source $FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/x_win/get_x_auth.sh
+
+ if [ -z "$X_auth_info" ]; then
+ # if there's no authentication info to pass along, we just do a normal su.
+ /bin/su -l $*
+ else
+ # under X, we update the new login's authority info with the previous
+ # user's info.
+ (unset XAUTHORITY; /bin/su -l $* -c "$X_auth_info ; export DISPLAY=$DISPLAY ; bash")
+ fi
+ else
+ # non-debian supposedly doesn't need the extra overhead any more.
+ # or at least suse doesn't, which is the other one we've tested on.
+ /bin/su -l $*
+ fi
+
+ # relabel the console after returning.
+ bash $FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/tty/label_terminal_with_infos.sh
+}
+
+# sudo function wraps the normal sudo by ensuring we replace the terminal
+# label if they're doing an su with the sudo.
+function sudo {
+ local first_command="$1"
+ /usr/bin/sudo $*
+ if [ "$first_command" == "su" ]; then
+ # yep, they were doing an su, but they're back now.
+ bash $FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/tty/label_terminal_with_infos.sh
+ fi
+}
+
+# buntar is a long needed uncompressing macro that feeds into tar -x.
+# it takes a list of bz2 file names and extracts their contents into
+# sequentially numbered directories.
+function buntar {
+ index=1
+ for i in $*; do
+ mkdir buntar_$index
+ pushd buntar_$index &>/dev/null
+ file=$i
+ # if the filename has no directory component, we will assume it used to
+ # be above our unzipping directory here.
+ if [ "$(basename $file)" = $file ]; then
+ file=../$file
+ fi
+ bunzip2 -d -c $file | tar -xf -
+ popd &>/dev/null
+ index=$(expr $index + 1)
+ done
+}
+
+# trashes the .#blah files that cvs and svn leave behind when finding conflicts.
+# this kind of assumes you've already checked them for any salient facts.
+function clean_cvs_junk {
+ for i in $*; do
+ find $i -follow -type f -iname ".#*" -exec perl $FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS/files/safedel.pl {} ";"
+ done
+}
+
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