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lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,018

A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

I've written a very sophisticated and exquisite, ego-boosting and mind-blowing (albeit perhaps a bit over-engineered) script which aims to prove Arch's superiority, day or night, Europe or America.

It should work with any sane shell, it is quite cpu and memory efficient, it's extensible, it follows the KISS and UNIX principles (do one thing, but do it well). Without much additional effort you can use it to send the good news of Arch's superiority to all the recipients in your address book or make it be known to you and whoever is your in your room by putting it through your speakers at every full hour. Only your imagination is the limit.

I deem the code stable, but you never know. Please test it thoroughly to iron out all possible bugs. The usual warnings about having data backups and my lack of responsibility about any possible damage done apply, of course.

Enjoy!

#!/bin/sh

echo "Arch is the best!"

Last edited by lucke (2008-04-18 18:54:59)

neodreams

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Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 87

Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

Speachless, wonderful.

phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

Posts: 7,879

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Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

This crashes on my Via C3 running Arch

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freakcode

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From: São Paulo - Brazil

Registered: 2007-11-03

Posts: 410

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Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

This crashes on my Via C3 running Arch

Please fill a bug report to flyspray.

gothmog.todi

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From: Austria

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 120

Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

what license is it under? I'm thinking about a fork...

xdeusx

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Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 168

Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

omg it deleted all my files while testing it under ubuntu

Pierre

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From: Bonn

Registered: 2004-07-05

Posts: 1,964

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Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

The script does not work for me. But hey this is open source: here is my improvment:

#!/bin/sh
yes Arch is the best!

You can easily pipe this to your favorite mail or irc client to tell the world what you think about Arch.

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finferflu

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2007-06-21

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Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

what license is it under? I'm thinking about a fork...

I bet it's under the WTFPL license.

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tlaloc

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From: Lower Saxony

Registered: 2006-05-12

Posts: 359

Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

It has already been forked:

#!/bin/sh

echo "Arch ist das Beste!"

Sorry, but my job is here that of a translator. And the first version was written in a deprecated language, anyway ...

peart

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From: Kanuckistan

Registered: 2003-07-28

Posts: 510

Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

Is it Y2K compliant?

gothmog.todi

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From: Austria

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 120

Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

Is it Y2K compliant?

I don't think so. Better not run it on your arch-based doomsday device 'till that is fixed.

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

What are your plans for internationalization?

peets

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From: Montreal

Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 936

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Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

I think it should explicitly run on dash for better speed and stability

Susu

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From: Germany

Registered: 2005-11-11

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Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

Can someone provide a PKGBUILD?

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Cerebral

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Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

Untested (wow, it's been a while since I've written a PKGBUILD from scratch)

pkgname=best_script_in_the_world
pkgver=1.0
pkgrel=1
url="http://www.archlinux.org"
arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
license=('GPL')
source=()
md5sums=()

build()
{
    mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/
    echo #!/bin/sh >> $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/best_script.sh
    echo >> $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/best_script.sh
    echo 'echo "Arch is the best!"' >> $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/best_script.sh
   
    chmod a+x $startdir/pkg/usr/bin/best_script.sh
}

phrakture

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Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

Can someone provide a PKGBUILD?

Hahaha. Epic

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Sigi

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From: Thurgau, Switzerland

Registered: 2005-09-22

Posts: 1,131

Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

Untested (wow, it's been a while since I've written a PKGBUILD from scratch)

arch=('i686' 'x86_64')

Is it confirmed to run on x86_64?

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peets

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From: Montreal

Registered: 2007-01-11

Posts: 936

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Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

Where's the manpage? Why do arch packagers always strip away the doc?

Eradest

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-07-18

Posts: 56

Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

Can't someone write a GUI-frontend? Arch needs to become more newbie-ubuntu-friendly. You can't expect users to run this in CLI all on their own.

And does it actually come preconfigured?

bavardage

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Registered: 2008-02-17

Posts: 160

Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

Eradest: here is the GUI frontend. It's important to care for those ubuntu-newbies.

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/zenity --info --text "Arch is the best"

Oh and it now has gnome dependencies

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faelar

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From: Amiens (FR)

Registered: 2007-12-18

Posts: 232

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Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

Is it possible to ask for a tray icon ? It would be much easier to use.

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moljac024

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2008-01-29

Posts: 2,676

Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

Just a small bugfix...
v 1.1

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/zenity --info --text "Arch is the best!"

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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

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Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

Please provide unified diff for bugfixes and improvements, it is much easier to review them than the whole program again.

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Flying Saxman

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From: Northern Hesse

Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 252

Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

@moljac024: Made an german translation. Sorry, if i made any mistake, but I'm new to programming!

#!/bin/sh
/usr/bin/zenity --info --text "Bogen ist das am Besten!"

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Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: A script proclaiming Arch's superiority

I tried to install this with cerebrals PKGBUILD (using ./configure make make install) and it fails to run :'(
And shouldn't the text be in uppercase?

(cerebral no hurries with the catalyst 8.4 it's been out for AGES! (atleast a day and provides nothing new)

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