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Created October 18, 2012 02:55
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A tcsh alias to control Kindle on FreeBSD
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kindle.tcsh
# usage: kindle eject|start
# The 'start' command works for Kindle, but I saw an error message.
# However, I'm not silencing it here.
alias kindle 'camcontrol devlist | grep Kindle |'\
'sed -nE '\''s/^.*(pass[[:digit:]]+).*$/\1/p'\'' |'\
'xargs -J% camcontrol \!:1 % -E'
# Any brief command of camcontrol(8) is supported actually; 'eject'
# and 'start' are enough.
complete kindle 'p/1/(eject start)/'
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