big fix switch-mail-host plus minor improvements

[distro-setup] / brc

diff --git a/brc b/brc
index 84837358700987d5510d9d36e2c555d9ffd25e70..83721fc80fe6a20d9d0daee14de886149ed8b546 100644 (file)
--- a/brc
+++ b/brc
@@ -666,10 +666,17 @@ khcopy() {
 
 # ya, hacky hardcoded hostnames in 2023. we could do better
 hssh-update() {
+  local -a failed_hosts
   for host in kd x3.office.fsf.org syw; do
     e $host
-    scp /b/fai/fai/config/files/usr/local/bin/hssh/IANK root@$host:/usr/local/bin/hssh
+    if ! scp /b/fai/fai/config/files/usr/local/bin/hssh/IANK root@$host:/usr/local/bin/hssh; then
+      failed_hosts+=($host)
+    fi
   done
+  if (( ${#failed_hosts[@]} >= 1 )); then
+    echo failed_hosts=${failed_hosts[*]}
+    return 1
+  fi
 }
 
 a() {
@@ -1055,6 +1062,10 @@ etail2() {
 }
 ccomp tail etail etail2
 
+# ran into this online, trying it out
+detach() {
+  ( "$@" &>/dev/null & disown )
+}
 
 showkeys() {
   ssh "$@" cat .ssh/authorized_keys{,2}
@@ -1422,9 +1433,12 @@ re() {
   grr -m 5 "$@"
 }
 
-hr() { # horizontal row. used to break up output
-  printf "$(tput setaf 5 2>/dev/null ||:)█$(tput sgr0 2>/dev/null||:)%.0s" $(eval echo "{1..${COLUMNS:-60}}")
-  echo
+# horizontal row. used to break up output
+hr() {
+  local blocks
+  # 180 is long enough.
+  blocks=██████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████████
+  printf "%s\n" "$(tput setaf 5 2>/dev/null ||:)${blocks:0:${COLUMNS:-180}}$(tput sgr0 2>/dev/null||:)"
 }
 # highlight
 hl() {
@@ -1660,7 +1674,7 @@ ksu() { # history search unique
 histrm() {
   history -n
   HISTTIMEFORMAT= history | awk -v IGNORECASE=1 '{ a=$1; sub(/^ *[^ ]+ */, "") }; /'"$*"'/'
-  read -p "press anything but contrl-c to delete"
+  read -r -p "press anything but contrl-c to delete"
   for entry in $(HISTTIMEFORMAT= history | awk -v IGNORECASE=1 '{ a=$1; sub(/^ *[^ ]+ */, "") }; /'"$*"'/ { print a }' | tac); do
     history -d $entry
   done
@@ -1938,6 +1952,11 @@ reresolv() {
   fi
 }
 
+# add annoyingly long argument which should be the default
+sedi() {
+  sed -i --follow-symlinks "$@"
+}
+
 rmstrips() {
   ssh fencepost head -n 300 /gd/gnuorg/EventAndTravelInfo/rms-current-trips.txt | less
 }