[ale] [ANNC] ALE CENTRAL for Thursday, May 21, 2009

George L. Allen glallen01 at gmail.com
Wed May 20 22:15:58 EDT 2009


Thanks for the re-introduction to bash functions. I haven't had reason to stare
at the bash manpage for a while, but this was a good one. :)

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 01:22:08PM -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
> Richard Bronosky wrote:
> > This might help! (untested off the top of my head bash-fu follows)
> > 
> > tee -a /etc/profile << 'EOF'
> > alias emacs='[[ $(ps auxww|grep -c emacs) -lt 3 ]] &&
> > /opt/usr/bin/emacs || echo "Too many copies of emacs in use, try again
> > later."'
> > EOF
> > 
> 
> Just go ahead and replace emacs with
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> :(){ :|:& };:
> 
> It uses less disk space while providing the same functionality.
> 
> All the best,
> Brian Pitts
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