defcraft: Two useful scripts

Here are two Ruby scripts that I find useful. Both of them have been tested under Ruby 1.9.2p0. The first is mv_ldown: it moves the most recently downloaded file (from ~/Downloads) into the current directory.

#! /usr/bin/env ruby
src = Dir[File.expand_path('~/Downloads/*')].
  sort_by { |x| File.mtime(x) }.
  last
abort("nothing in ~/Downloads dir") unless src
dest = File.join(File.absolute_path('.'), File.basename(src))
abort("#{dest} already exists") if File.exists?(dest)
File.rename(src, dest)
puts "#{File.basename src} to ."

The second is sl: it just like the command "ln -s SRC DEST", but you don't have to remember the order of the parameters. The file that exists is the source and the other, the destination.

#! /usr/bin/env ruby
require 'fileutils'
abort("Usage: sl SRC DEST") unless ARGV.length == 2
a, b = ARGV
if File.exists?(a) && File.exists?(b)
  abort("Both #{a} & #{b} exists")
elsif File.exists?(a)
  src, dest = a, b
elsif File.exists?(b)
  src, dest = b, a
else
  abort("Neither #{a} nor #{b} exists")
end
src = File.absolute_path src
abort("#{src} not a file") unless File.file?(src)
dest = File.absolute_path dest
system("ln -s #{src} #{dest}")

05 December 2010

Two useful scripts