Bash one-liner to run nginx on command line as regular user to serve files from current directory (a replacement for python -m SimpleHTTPServer)

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T=`mktemp` P=`mktemp` && bash -e -c "exec 3<$T && exec 4>$P && rm $P && echo -e 'daemon off;worker_processes auto;pid /dev/null;error_log /dev/stderr;events {} http {  access_log /dev/stdout; include /etc/nginx/mime.types; server { listen 127.0.0.1:8000; location / { autoindex on; autoindex_exact_size off; root .;} }}' > $T && rm $T && exec nginx -p . -c /dev/fd/3"

As a (more readable) bash script: https://gist.github.com/asterite3/89236d1753a669e173531aca4b87afdc