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While you're creating and testing aliases, it's handy to source your ~/.zshrc whenever you edit it: alias vz="vim ~/.zshrc && . ~/.zshrc" I alias mdfind to grep my .docx files on my Mac: docgrep() { mdfind "\"$@\"" -onlyin /Users/xxxx/Notes 2> >(grep --invert-match ' \[UserQueryParser\] ' >&2) | grep -v -e '/Inactive/' | sort } I use an `anon` function to anonymize my Mac clipboard when I want to paste something to t…
What's the difference between 'source' and '.' ?
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Atuin is new to me! https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin Discussed 4 months ago: Atuin – Magical Shell History https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44364186 - June 2025, 71 comments
I gave it a try a few months ago, but did not work for me. My main issue is that atuin broke my workflow with fzf (If I remember correctly, pressing ctrl + r to lookup my shell history did not work well after installing atuin).
I have a bunch, but one that I rarely see mentioned but use all the time is memo(1) ( https://github.com/aktau/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/memo ). It memoizes the command passed to it. $ memo curl https://some-expensive.com/api/call | jq . | awk '...' Manually clearing it (for example if I know the underlying data has changed: $ memo -c curl https://some-expensive.com/api/call In-pipeline memoization (includes the input…
Uhm, jq _is_ as powerful (more) as awk. You can use jq directly and skip awk.
(I know, old habits die hard, and learning functional programming languages is not easy.)
and here's me still ctrl+r-ing for my commonly used methods
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They compete for time.
Don't even try to explain the scripts to wife*, try the dog. At least he'll understand it just as much and be enthusiastic to hear it! *may not be applicable to all wives, ymmv.
While you're creating and testing aliases, it's handy to source your ~/.zshrc whenever you edit it: alias vz="vim ~/.zshrc && . ~/.zshrc" I alias mdfind to grep my .docx files on my Mac: docgrep() { mdfind "\"$@\"" -onlyin /Users/xxxx/Notes 2> >(grep --invert-match ' \[UserQueryParser\] ' >&2) | grep -v -e '/Inactive/' | sort } I use an `anon` function to anonymize my Mac clipboard when I want to paste something to t…
What's the difference between 'source' and '.' ?
> trash a.txt b.png moves `a.txt` and `b.png` to the trash. Supports macOS and Linux. The way you’re doing it trashes files sequentially, meaning you hear the trashing sound once per file and ⌘Z in the Finder will only restore the last one. You can improve that (I did it for years) but consider just using the `trash` commands which ships with macOS. Doesn’t use the Finder, so no sound and no ⌘Z, but it’s fast, offici…
That was my thought. I use jq to pretty print json.
What I have found useful is j2p and p2j to convert to/from python dict format to json format (and pretty print the output). I also have j2p_clip and p2j_clip, which read from and then write to the system clipboard so I don't have to manually pipe in and out.
> Any reason to not simply use `uuidgen`, which ships with macOS and likely your Linux distro?
I also made a uuid, which just runs uuidgen, but then trims the \n. (And maybe copied to clipboard? It was at my old job, and I don't seem to have saved it to my personal computer.)
I have a bunch, but one that I rarely see mentioned but use all the time is memo(1) ( https://github.com/aktau/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/memo ). It memoizes the command passed to it. $ memo curl https://some-expensive.com/api/call | jq . | awk '...' Manually clearing it (for example if I know the underlying data has changed: $ memo -c curl https://some-expensive.com/api/call In-pipeline memoization (includes the input…
also, this seems a lot like an automated way to write shell scripts that you can pipe to and from. so why not use a shell script that won't surprise anyone instead of this, which might?
Heres my script if anyone is interested in as I find it to be incredibly useful.
find . -type f \( -name ".tf" -o -name ".tfvars" -o -name ".json" -o -name ".hcl" -o -name ".sh" -o -name ".tpl" -o -name ".yml" -o -name ".yaml" -o -name ".py" -o -name ".md" \) -exec sh -c 'for f; do echo "### FILE: $f ###"; cat "$f"; echo; done' sh {} +
> trash a.txt b.png moves `a.txt` and `b.png` to the trash. Supports macOS and Linux. The way you’re doing it trashes files sequentially, meaning you hear the trashing sound once per file and ⌘Z in the Finder will only restore the last one. You can improve that (I did it for years) but consider just using the `trash` commands which ships with macOS. Doesn’t use the Finder, so no sound and no ⌘Z, but it’s fast, offici…
For trash on macOS, I recommend https://github.com/ali-rantakari/trash Does all the right things and works great. There’s a similar tool that works well on Linux/BSDs that I’ve used for years, but I don’t have my FreeBSD desktop handy to check.