Re: Remember your pearls [was grep, maybe]

2010-01-18 Thread James R. Van Zandt
(My email backlog is pretty long...) I have several scripts in $HOME/bin or /usr/local/bin, but for commands used in a particular directory, I usually just add the line to a plain text file "cmd" in that directory. Sometimes it will be convenient to execute the whole file as a script, but more o

Re: Remember your pearls [was grep, maybe]

2009-11-03 Thread Ben Scott
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 5:09 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote: > same here - any conclusions as to whether they should be named > 'verbnoun' or 'nounverb'? You could do both with a hard link. (I'm not sure if I'm kidding or not.) -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: Remember your pearls [was grep, maybe]

2009-11-03 Thread Bill McGonigle
On 10/30/2009 08:32 AM, Ben Scott wrote: > They get saved in a file under $HOME/bin under an appropriate name, > with appropriate comments. Ideally, I turn them into a working > "command" I can then use as needed. (Occasionally they get turned > into shell aliases or functions, if the mood stri

Re: Remember your pearls [was grep, maybe]

2009-10-30 Thread Kevin D. Clark
Ben Scott writes: > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) > wrote: > > So, you've worked out a magnificent one-liner solution to a > > interesting and recurring task.  How do you 'remember' your solution? > > They get saved in a file under $HOME/bin under an appropriate n

Re: Remember your pearls [was grep, maybe]

2009-10-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Tom Buskey wrote: > I wonder how much data got lost because it was kept in a format that > changed.  Like Wordperfect, dbase, etc... ... the original video of the first moonwalk ... HHOS. -- Ben ___ gnhlug-discuss

Re: Remember your pearls [was grep, maybe]

2009-10-30 Thread Ben Scott
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote: > So, you've worked out a magnificent one-liner solution to a > interesting and recurring task.  How do you 'remember' your solution? They get saved in a file under $HOME/bin under an appropriate name, with appropriate comments.

Re: Remember your pearls [was grep, maybe]

2009-10-30 Thread Tom Buskey
On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 11:01 PM, Greg Rundlett (freephile) < g...@freephile.com> wrote: > Not an answer to the OP, but a follow-on. > > So, you've worked out a magnificent one-liner solution to a > interesting and recurring task. How do you 'remember' your solution? > > Do you create a file with

Remember your pearls [was grep, maybe]

2009-10-29 Thread Greg Rundlett (freephile)
Not an answer to the OP, but a follow-on. So, you've worked out a magnificent one-liner solution to a interesting and recurring task. How do you 'remember' your solution? Do you create a file with scripts and comments? Do you post it in a wiki? A blog? An IDE with snippets? Do you remember it in