open http server in current directory in bash

httpserver.sh

httpserver()
{
  local port="${1:-8000}"
  sleep 1 && open "http://localhost:${port}/" &
  # Set the default Content-Type to `text/plain` instead of `application/octet-stream`
  # And serve everything as UTF-8 (although not technically correct, this doesn’t break anything for binary files)
  python -c $'import SimpleHTTPServer;\nmap = SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler.extensions_map;\nmap[""] = "text/plain";\nfor key, value in map.items():\n\tmap[key] = value + ";charset=UTF-8";\nSimpleHTTPServer.test();' "$port"
}