Renamed aliases.sh to helpers.sh and updated README

README

@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 Collection of scripts that I find enhance my Command Line Experience (r)
 
- aliases.sh				Simple aliases to make the shell more friendly
  build_histogram.py			Minimal library to produce histogram data
  extract_invalid_emails.py		Given a file as an argument or STDIN, print only bad email addresses
  generate_email_chunk.sh		Used to concatenate email segments and seed lists (probably only useful to me)
+ helpers.sh					Simple aliases to make the shell more friendly
  json2csv.py:				Extract keys from newline seperated JSON dictionaries to CSV output
  json2email_distribution.sh		Given a JSON with an 'email' field, find the top domains and counts
  senderscore.sh:			Log to CSV the SMTP sender scores for blocks of IPs

bootstrap.sh

@@ -12,12 +12,14 @@ mkdir $HOME/src
 git clone git://github.com/derwiki/scripts.git
 echo >> $HOME/.profile
 echo "# autogenerated by github.com/scripts.git/bootstrap.sh" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
-echo "source $HOME/scripts/aliases.sh" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
+echo "source $HOME/scripts/helpers.sh" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
 
 # At the time this was created, github was acting really flaky
 # git clone https://github.com/git/git.git $HOME/src/git
-git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git $HOME/src/git
-cd $HOME/src/git
-make && make install && echo "`git` compiles successfully"
-echo "alias git='$HOME/bin/git'" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
+git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git $HOME/src/git && \
+  cd $HOME/src/git && \
+  make && \
+  make install && \
+  echo "'git' compiles successfully" && \
+  echo "alias git='$HOME/bin/git'" >> $HOME/.bash_profile
 

aliases.sh → helpers.sh

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+### Aliases ###
+
 alias us_email_only_grep="grep -e '(.org\|.com\|.net\|.edu\|.mil\|.gov)'"
 
 # these were tested on Linux but might not on OS X
@@ -12,3 +14,23 @@ alias rkf="grep -nr --include=*.rake"
 
 alias s="screen -xRR"
 alias git="$HOME/bin/git"
+
+
+
+### Functions ###
+
+# Usage:
+#  waitforpid 311 ; sendEmail "long running task finished"
+function waitforpid {
+  while ps -p $1 1>/dev/null 2> /dev/null; do 
+    sleep 1; 
+  done
+}
+
+# Usage:
+#  waitforprocess myscript.py ; sendEmail "long running script finished"
+function waitforprocess {
+  while ps -p $(pgrep $1) 1>/dev/null 2> /dev/null; do
+    sleep 1; 
+  done
+}