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Dotfiles, utilities, and other apparatus.

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bin/yank, bin/unyank - stash a filename, move it I'm not sure these are really the right names, but the idea is that you have some file you want to move, but you aren't real keen on typing out a full destination path right now. So you do something like: yank file_to_move_later # other stuff cd some_destination_directory unyank The implementation should really be more general. It would be cool if you could stack files. It _might_ be cool if it made hardlinks, for various reasons, but I also suspect that complicates things. Maybe these should be called `delete` and `put`? Maybe the `unyank` should copy rather than moving the file? It feels like mostly that isn't what I want, for various reasons.

8 years ago

#!/bin/sh

# Move the path stored in ~/.yanked_file to the current working directory.

if [ ! -e ~/.yanked_file ]; then
  echo "no currently yanked file"
  exit 66
fi

unyank_path=`cat ~/.yanked_file`
echo "moving '$unyank_path' to '$PWD'"
mv "$unyank_path" . && rm ~/.yanked_file