Tip for one of those ones I can't leave without: screen
I am reading this book. At some point the authors talk about the beauty of plain text. They talk about being productive and how plain text and being able to comfortably work with text can help you.
One of my top5 tools is screen. Yes, you know what I am talking about. Probably the other four would be: bash, vim, ssh, irssi and mutt (ok, six). Not in any specific order. I work 99.9% percent of the time with that tools.
Screen allows you to add a status bar so you can keep track of your windows and some other stuff. I wanted it would to be able to check what is the status of your inbox so you can switch to your mutt window to check your email. This is what I did:
backtick 0 10 10 /home/your_user/scripts/screen-mail.sh
#!/bin/sh
mailbox="/home/your_user/Maildir/Inbox/new"
nMail=`find $mailbox -type f | wc -l | awk '{print $1}'`
echo -ne "[$nMail]"
Basically, we are instructing screen to get the output of our script and to use it
in some part of our status bar. How useful is that?
posted at: 22:52 | path: /screen | permanent link to this entry
