nls

ck to real work. If there's enough interest it'd be great to turn this into a larger effort of improving the small things in our bash lives. If you're lazy, here's the source anyway (github has comments and sane spacing) - enjoy! from subprocess import Popen, PIPE import sys files = Popen(["ls"], stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0].splitlines() notes = {} try:     nls_file = open('.nls').read().splitlines() except IOError:     nls_file = [] for entry in nls_file:     file, note = entry.split(':', 1)     notes[file] = note if len(sys.argv) > 1:     if len(sys.argv) == 2 and sys.argv[1] == 'bootstrap':         for file in files:             if file not in notes:                 notes[file] = ''     elif sys.argv[1] in files:         notes[sys.argv[1]] = ' '.join(sys.argv[2:])     open('.nls','w').write(         '\n'.join([file+': '+note for file,note in notes.iteritems()])) for file in files:     if file in notes:         print '\033[1m' + file + ':\033[0m ' + notes[file].strip()  else: print '\033[1m' + file + '\033[0m' Note: I know this code isn't perfect, but it was a quick job and is what came to mind first and, most importantly, works. If you want to improve it send me a pull request/fork it on github (this is REALLY easy now with github's recent updates).