DollarSkip is a short piece of C code designed to ignore the dollar symbol at the start of commands.
It aims to solve the annoyance of copying commands and having the annoying error
$: command not found
You need to have wget installed to run this command
To install, run the following command in a terminal:
wget -qO- https://git.io/JsAqw | bash
The link is shortened version of https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CleanMachine1/DollarSkip/master/install.sh.
The package can be installed with an AUR helper such as yay:
yay -S dollarskip
To download and compile DollarSkip you need Git (to download the files) and Make (to make compilation easier)
To install DollarSkip without Git or Make
If you don't want to use Git and Make, you can download the zip from here or you can download the most stable version here and compile dollarskip.c with gcc dollarskip.c -o temp then move temp to /usr/local/bin/$ with sudo mv temp /usr/local/bin/\$.
To install, run the following commands in a terminal:
cd ~/ # Or your place of choice for Git repositories
git clone https://github.com/CleanMachine1/DollarSkip # Or use SSH
cd DollarSkip
make # This makes the binary
sudo make install # This copies the binary to /usr/local/bin and names it '$'
make clean # Removes the binary created above since it has already been movedAfter you can test to see if it works.
Run the following command, see the output and compare.
$ echo 1
1If you get a different output, please explain your situation and any error messages attached.
cd ~/DollarSkip # Or where you put the Git directory
sudo make uninstall # Remove the binary in /usr/local/bin/
cd ..
rm -rf ./DollarSkip
# If the DollarSkip directory doesn't exist, simply run the following command:
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/\$ # or /usr/bin/\$ (depending on when you installed).DollarSkip makes a binary file called $, in return whenever the first word of a command is $ on its own, Linux see this as a application, since when installing, the $ file is moved to /usr/local/bin/
It can have side effects and if any occur, just run the uninstallation and tell me what went wrong!
This project was a learning experience for me, since my C needs to improve!
I am not responsible for any damage to your system! Max character count in a single command is 8000! Anything over may create a segmentation fault!
In no event shall: The authors or copyright holders be liable for any claim, damages or other liability, whether in an action of contract, tort or otherwise, arising from, out of or in connection with the software or the use or other dealings in the software. (MIT license)
If you decided to run a stupid command which creates a buffer overflow, expect a system crash!