no proxy - yes proxy Netscape

I just got a job where I'll be spending the day behind a firewall. By night I'll carry my laptop home and do my meditations outside the firewall. I wrote the following scripts to avoid the hassle of setting my proxy preferences by hand twice a day:

No proxy:

#!/bin/sh
perl -pi -e 's/^user_pref\("network\.proxy\.type".+$//' ~/.netscape/pr
+eferences.js
netscape&

Yes proxy (no perl!):

#!/bin/sh
echo 'user_pref("network.proxy.type", 1);' >> ~/.netscape/preferences.
+js
netscape&
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RE: no proxy - yes proxy Netscape by Anonymous Monk on May 23, 2000 at 03:25 UTC
Why not use sed instead of perl for this?	[reply]
RE: no proxy - yes proxy Netscape by rjimlad (Acolyte) on May 25, 2000 at 21:46 UTC
Nice little trick, but I'm sure the first could be written as a pure perl script (I don't like the idea of launching an interpreter from an interpreter). Of course, I can't be bothered to... because I can't remember an easy way of doing a read and a write at (about) the same time. sigh ---- Arrr, Jim lad.	[reply]
RE: RE: no proxy - yes proxy Netscape by gregorovius (Friar) on May 25, 2000 at 22:54 UTC
Well, you could keep it a one-liner and call exec to run netscape, still taking advantage of the cool -pi options: `perl -pi -e 's/^user_pref\("network\.proxy\.type".+$//; END{exec netsc +ape}' ~/.netscape/preferences.js` [download]	[reply] [d/l]