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    Ongoing observations by End Point Dev people

    Camp tools

    Jeff Boes

    By Jeff Boes
    January 14, 2013

    Devcamps are such a big part of my everyday work that I can’t imagine life without them. Over the years, I developed some short-cuts in navigating camps that I also can’t live without: I share them below.

    function camp_top() {
      if [ -n "$1" ]
      then
          cd ~/camp${1}
      elif [[ $(pwd) =~ 'camp' ]]
      then
          until [[ $(basename $(pwd)) =~ '^camp[[:digit:]]+' ]]
          do
              if [[ $(pwd) =~ 'camp' ]]
              then
                  cd ..
              else
                  break
              fi
          done
      fi
    }
    alias ct='camp_top; pwd'
    
    function cat_root() {
      camp_top $*
      cd catalogs/* >/dev/null
    }
    alias cr='cat_root; pwd'
    
    function pages_root() {
      cat_root $*
      cd pages >/dev/null
    }
    alias pr='pages_root; pwd'
    
    function what_camp() {
      c=$( camp_top $* 2> /dev/null; basename $( pwd ))
      echo $c
    }
    

    (“cat_root” and “pages_root” are very Interchange-specific; you may find other short-cuts more useful in your particular camp.)

    There’s nothing terribly ground-breaking here, but if bash is not your native shell-tongue, then you might find these useful.

    What I do is to stash these somewhere like “$HOME/.bash_camps”, then alter my .bashrc:

    # Source campy definitions
    if [ -f ~/.bash_camps ]; then
     . ~/.bash_camps
    fi
    

    That’s all it takes. Have you a camp-y shell script, function, or alias? Please share in the comments!

    shell camps


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