Return to BSD News archive
Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:14899 comp.unix.programmer:20121 comp.unix.questions:55100 comp.unix.shell:17783 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uchinews!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!crcnis1.unl.edu!s-cwis.unomaha.edu!corona!hwolfe From: hwolfe@corona (Herb Wolfe) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.shell Subject: Re: <Q> Is there a script for ...? Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.shell Date: 15 Sep 1994 22:48:00 GMT Organization: University of Nebraska Omaha Lines: 41 Message-ID: <35aiv0$ra9@s-cwis.unomaha.edu> References: <Pine.3.89.9409150511.A14429-0100000@worf.uwsp.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: hwolfe%@corona.unomaha.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Peter Zuge (pzuge@worf.uwsp.edu) wrote: : : BSD/386: : I was wondering if there are some scripts for the following: : (I am pretty sure that someone else must have wanted these : at some time) : 1) A script that will let a user re-edit the last command. : Maybe grabbing it from history and using some editor to modify the : command before executing it? When creating scripts, I end up test- : ing parts of it out on the command line. These command lines get : pretty lengthy and I would like a way to "grab" it and simply change : a parameter then execute it again. ( Like DOSKEY or F3 in DOS? ) erm, up-arrow? ^p? : 2) A script that will make it easy to kill numerous jobs. : ( I sometimes make some jim-dandy mistakes ) : Coping four or five PIDs down correctly on the command line is : almost more than my typing skills can take.;-) kill -9 % : 3) A notify script that will tell me when a certain user logs in. : Maybe even notify me if a certain user logs onto a remote machine? in your .login or .cshrc file, don't remember which, off the top of my head... set watch (username tty username tty ... ) the tty can be the word 'any' if it doesn't matter where they login from. as for logging onto a remote machine... that can be done, but it uses a lot of resources from both machines. I'm not sure of the details, just seen it mentioned. herb -- "Stay sharp, make good decisions" Louis in Ghostbusters II "Been dazed and confused for so long it's not true" Led Zeppelin hwolfe@corona.unomaha.edu