What are some small scripts you use daily?
Ask HN: What are some small scripts you use daily?
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#2I have a shell alias that creates a temp directory labeled with the current time stamp and suffixed tag then changes to it. Makes it very quick get a new scratch area for shell fu.
Plus all the scratch dirs are in one place so cleanup is a breeze to free up space.
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#3I have a shell alias that creates a temp directory labeled with the current time stamp and suffixed tag then changes to it. Makes it very quick get a new scratch area for shell fu. Plus all the scratch dirs are in one place so cleanup is a breeze to free up space.
Sharing is caring? :)
Re: Ask HN: What are some small scripts you use daily?
#4I have letters like r and b aliased in my bash profile to check for and run a bash script, if it exists, in each project directory (r = ./run.sh, b = ./build.sh).
In each of those scripts, I typically have a one liner depending on what the project requires. A simple build one is:
#!/usr/bin/env bash
make build
#!/usr/bin/env bash
docker run foo/bar
#!/usr/bin/env bash
python manage.py runserver
Then I add each script to my .git/info/exclude for each project. It saves so much time switching between projects to not have to remember any particular one's build or run commands.
Re: Ask HN: What are some small scripts you use daily?
#5I have a shell alias that creates a temp directory labeled with the current time stamp and suffixed tag then changes to it. Makes it very quick get a new scratch area for shell fu. Plus all the scratch dirs are in one place so cleanup is a breeze to free up space.
Sharing is caring? :)
Ask and ye shall receive!
make-scratch-dir () {
local name="$1"
local pattern='^[a-z0-9\\-]+$'
if [[ "$#" != 1 ]]; then
echo "Usage: make-scratch-dir " 1>&2
return 1
elif [[ ! "$name" =~ $pattern ]]; then
echo "Invalid name: ${name}"
fi
local full_path="$HOME/tmp/scratch/$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S)-${name}"
mkdir -p "${full_path}"
pushd "${full_path}"
echo "Now in temp dir: ${full_path}"
}
Re: Ask HN: What are some small scripts you use daily?
#6There's a gui app on top of the script, so not sure if it counts, but I find SelfControl (selfcontrolapp.com) indispensible for staying focused each day.
Re: Ask HN: What are some small scripts you use daily?
#7I have a simple script called ~/bin/shipit
web [master=] $ cat $(type -P shipit)
#!/bin/bash
exec ./shipit
web [master=] $
Re: Ask HN: What are some small scripts you use daily?
#8I start projects very often and find myself using my scaffolding [tool](https://github.com/vutran/zel) for minimal dotfiles (which are downloaded from a repo) very often.
Also use it a lot for syncing dotfiles in my user directory between my work and home computers.
Re: Ask HN: What are some small scripts you use daily?
#9This Bash function rebases and pushes all my feature branches on the upstream "develop" branch:
rebase-all ()
{
old=`git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD`;
stashed=`git stash`;
for b in $(git branch --format '%(authorname) %(refname:short)' | sed -ne "s/^`git config --get user.name` //p" | grep -- -);
do
git checkout $b && git rebase origin/develop && git push --force || ( git rebase --abort && echo Could not rebase $b );
echo;
done;
git checkout $old;
if [ "$stashed" != "No local changes to save" ]; then
git stash pop;
fi
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#10I have a small perl script I wrote called helpme
by default it shows a list of topics. Then if you run it with the topic, it displays the details about the topic. I use it to remember how to do less frequent stuff at my day job.