On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Chris Jones<cjns1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Backticks can be fun. :-) > > Since my "Desktop Environment" is basically gnu/screen and I do like to > keep an eye on the system's health, I wrote backticks that do pretty > much everything apart from making the coffee.
Chris makes a great point. Backticks are a wonderful thing. I wrote sort of a "front end" for screen called "byobu" based heavily upon backticks. * http://launchpad.net/byobu It includes ~30 different "system status notifications" in the form of backticks, including one for the ip_address, as well as some handy keybindings and a curses-based configurator. You can view a demo of byobu in action at: * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rBF8byfyvo You can download Ubuntu, Debian, and Red Hat packages at: * https://launchpad.net/~byobu/+archive/ppa * http://people.ubuntu.com/~kirkland/byobu/rpm/ Or you can just download and untar this in your home directory (which will overwrite your ~/.screenrc) * http://people.ubuntu.com/~kirkland/byobu/byobu-export.tar.gz :-Dustin
