← Back to context Comment by nine_k 3 years ago Those are so useful that I wrote trivial shell functions that do the same under Linux. 3 comments nine_k Reply timf 3 years ago Since I'm bouncing between OSX and Linux a lot, I have a shell script with the same name on each that boils down to: if [ `uname` == "Darwin" ]; then pbcopy else xsel --clipboard fi cerved 3 years ago why not just alias? timf 3 years ago Could be an alias, I have a limited set of aliases for each type of system. But I keep a repository of hundreds of personal shell scripts and it fit better there.
timf 3 years ago Since I'm bouncing between OSX and Linux a lot, I have a shell script with the same name on each that boils down to: if [ `uname` == "Darwin" ]; then pbcopy else xsel --clipboard fi cerved 3 years ago why not just alias? timf 3 years ago Could be an alias, I have a limited set of aliases for each type of system. But I keep a repository of hundreds of personal shell scripts and it fit better there.
cerved 3 years ago why not just alias? timf 3 years ago Could be an alias, I have a limited set of aliases for each type of system. But I keep a repository of hundreds of personal shell scripts and it fit better there.
timf 3 years ago Could be an alias, I have a limited set of aliases for each type of system. But I keep a repository of hundreds of personal shell scripts and it fit better there.
Since I'm bouncing between OSX and Linux a lot, I have a shell script with the same name on each that boils down to:
why not just alias?
Could be an alias, I have a limited set of aliases for each type of system. But I keep a repository of hundreds of personal shell scripts and it fit better there.