/dollar

Execute commands when copying the $

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A lot of tutorial websites use $ to indicate that a line of code should be executed at the terminal as a normal user. However, the lazy folks just copy the whole line, only to be greeted with $: command not found. While you could just delete the dollar symbol and run the command again, that's sooooo inefficient.

This script is a simple hack to ignore the dollar symbol and run the rest of the command as usual.

Installation

Arch Linux

Use the included PKGBUILD or install dollar

Any other distribution

To install, run the following command:

cp \$.sh /usr/bin/\$

To uninstall the program:

rm /usr/bin/\$

Both command might require root access.

Performance

It is written in Bash, so dkdc. Fast enough, I'd say.