Your favourite little helper bash scripts

[wizard10000]

Not a script but an alias - it helps since you can't dump top to a text file. First section is sorted by memory use, second section by CPU use.

alias processes="ps -eo pid,rtprio,ni,pri,pcpu,rss,comm --sort -rss && ps -eo pid,rtprio,ni,pri,pcpu,rss,comm --sort -pcpu"

[Lars Noodén]

It allows to do things like

kill -9 $(pgrep -x vi)

Which can be done with pkill

pkill -9 -x vi

[matt_symes]

Hi

Which can be done with pkill

pkill -9 -x vi

Of course there are many ways in Linux to get the same job done

Exactly.

Kind regards

[Blutkoete]

Ok, I have to admit that I'm a real beginner when it's up to bash scripts (wow, amauk!), but I'll give it another shot and post something here. Maybe this time there isn't a built-in command that does the same only better .

#!/bin/bash
# apt-get-proxy: Executes apt-get with proxy settings (e.g. for use with apt-cache-ng). Use 0 for proxy to don't use a no proxy.
if [ "$1" = "0" ]
then
  apt-get $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9
else
  apt-get -o Acquire::http::Proxy="http://$1" $2 $3 $4 $5 $6 $7 $8 $9
fi

Usage: sudo apt-get-proxy <proxy-address-and-port> <normal apt-get arguments>

I use apt-cacher-ng with my netbook as the server (I take that one to the university all the time) because at home my bandwith is limited. apt-get is configured to use the netbook as a apt-cacher-ng-proxy, so I use this script if the netbook isn't running. I was always wondering whether there is something like an expression for "I want $*, only without $1" for scripting this.

I think I'll pimp up this script with amauk's root-require script.