Soren's Scripts

To find these hacks (I mean beauties), you'll need an account on some machine where I have an account (engin or CS at Brown, or my high school). Go to my home directory and look in the directory called Use. I'm not sure _why_ I named my directory that, but that's they way it has been for a long time.

address
uses ~/Text/addresses to easily store email addresses
aftp
anon ftp without typing anonymous, etc, via .netrc
ch
ps aux|more or ps auxgew|grep "$*" (/usr/ucb/ps rocks)
*checkmail
beeps when mail comes
count
I can never remember how to do loops in /bin/sh
disp
the idea was to display X progs anywhere
doallsuns
rsh to every sun in Prince and do something (use ksh)
dotback
back up your dotfiles to ~/.dotback
duall
do a du, get rid of crap, sort output, _very_ useful
*lines
gives lines $1->$2 of a file
loc
find a user in the Prince lab
*lock
lock your tty (use ^A-x if using screen)
mhosts
add all Prince suns to .rhosts file
*nameof
do reverse number->name DNS lookup, _very_ useful
newcd
a hilarious hack to mess up the cd command
options
gets what might be option lines from the man page
plantmail
a script you can pass to "at" to mail yourself
phone
uses ph to get a person's phone number(s)
procsnotme
what's running that is not yours on this machine
rquote
gets a random quote from Jesse's quote's page.
scatman
I wanted to have my man page in vi...(in my pre-less days)
sinceme
see who has logged in since you last did (single node only)
site
like address, but keep track of URL-type stuff
slay
grep ps aux and kill -9 whatever it finds
swrite
instant message (like zwrite) via the "write" command
ulogsoren
in high school, this helped me get to gym on time (via cron)
*yesterday
this gives you "date" output as if it was yesterday

Those in bold I would like everyone to use unless they have something better (use zwrite if you have it). Those marked with a * were not written by me, but copied from others over the years. The nameof script has to be the coolest script I have been given. If you have any questions, bug reports (ha ha, and this lists only the scripts I am reasonably sure work), etc, please mail me on the system where you find the error.