{"id":317,"date":"2009-05-22T19:32:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T23:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2009-05-26T10:45:56","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T14:45:56","slug":"brilliant-bash-profile-functions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.timelordz.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/brilliant-bash-profile-functions\/","title":{"rendered":"Brilliant Bash Profile Functions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst perusing about, I chanced upon these great bash functions<\/a> (original author unknown) which you and place in your .bashrc\u00a0 They are a great example of how simple it can be to define a function in Bash and are actually pretty useful. First some examples of the output:<\/p>\n

paracelsus@Callandor:~> weather London
\nWeather for London, UK 59\u00b0F Current: Cloudy Wind: W at 9 mph Humidity: 67%<\/span><\/p>\n

paracelsus@Callandor:~> translate cat japanese
\n“cat” in Japanese:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u732b<\/span><\/p>\n

paracelsus@Callandor:~> define haxor
\n* Leet or Eleet (sometimes rendered l33t, 1337, or 31337), also known
\n* A variant spelling of hacker in the leet argot<\/span><\/p>\n

Note that as a defined function auto completion of the initial call works too, which I didn’t know.<\/p>\n

The code to implement this is quite simple really and is the same as the site above, only I changed one line to update a reference so the translation function works:<\/p>\n

(Displayed in the nifty new wp-codbox<\/a> plugin I just installed.)<\/p>\n

# richs-lxh needs to find rude words in other languages, define new groovy  words that the kids use nowadays, and see if it's sunny ; D\r\n\r\n# Weather by placename # weather \"Barcelona\"\r\nweather ()\r\n{\r\ndeclare -a WEATHERARRAY\r\nWEATHERARRAY=( `lynx -dump \"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=weather+${1}&btnG=Search\" | grep -A 5 -m 1 \"Weather for\" | grep -v \"Add to \"`)\r\necho ${WEATHERARRAY[@]}\r\n}\r\n\r\n#Translate Spanish\/English  - USAGE: translate lamer spanish  # See dictionary.com for available languages (there are many).\r\ntranslate ()\r\n{\r\nTRANSLATED=`lynx -dump \"http:\/\/translate.reference.com\/browse\/${1}\" | grep -i -m 1 -w \"${2}:\" | sed 's\/^[ \\t]*\/\/;s\/[ \\t]*$\/\/'`\r\nif [[ ${#TRANSLATED} != 0 ]] ;then\r\n   echo \"\\\"${1}\\\" in ${TRANSLATED}\"\r\n   else\r\n   echo \"Sorry, I can not translate \\\"${1}\\\" to ${2}\"\r\nfi\r\n}\r\n\r\n# Define a groovy word - USAGE: define lamer\r\ndefine ()\r\n{\r\nlynx -dump \"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+${1}&btnG=Google+Search\" | grep -m 3 -w \"*\"  | sed 's\/;\/ -\/g' | cut -d- -f1 > \/tmp\/templookup.txt\r\n         if [[ -s  \/tmp\/templookup.txt ]] ;then\r\n            until ! read response\r\n               do\r\n               echo \"${response}\"\r\n               done < \/tmp\/templookup.txt\r\n            else\r\n               echo \"Sorry $USER, I can't find the term \\\"${1} \\\"\"\r\n         fi\r\nrm -f \/tmp\/templookup.txt\r\n}<\/pre>\n
These function templates are great and provide examples from which all manner of interesting things could be made. Thanks to whomever originally contributed them!<\/p>\n
Cheers,
\nPete<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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