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Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

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Re: Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

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Post by yellowapple »

fragmede wrote: post #97
soiltype wrote: post #6

This is exactly the kind of stuff I'm most interested in finding on HN. How do other developers work, and how can I get better at my work from it? What's always interesting to me is how many of these I'll see and initially think, "I don't really need that." Because I'm well aware of the effect (which I'm sure has a name - I suppose it's similar to induced demand) of "make $uncommon_task much cheaper" -> "$uncommon_ta…

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fliptheweb/bash-shortcuts-... has served me very well.

One of the very few things I like about macOS is that it rebinds the CUA key from Ctrl to Cmd, freeing up Ctrl for these Emacs-style text navigation keybinds. It's odd to me that seemingly zero Linux distros/DEs do this by default.

Re: Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

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Post by akullpp »

A lot can be done with just aliasing to the right tools:

alias df='duf'

alias ls='eza'

alias ll='eza -l'

alias cat='bat'

alias cap='bat -p'

alias man='tldr'

alias top='glances'

alias grep='rg'

alias ps='procs'

alias cd='z'

alias g='gitui'

alias gs='git st'

alias gp='git pull'

alias gu='git add . && git commit -m "Update" && git push'

alias check='shellcheck'

alias v='nvim'

alias len='wc -l'

alias uuid='uuidgen'

alias src='source ~/.zshrc'

Re: Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

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Post by ratrocket »

GNOMES wrote: post #343

I use my "dc" command to reverse "cd" frequently https://gist.github.com/GNOMES/6bf65926648e260d8023aebb9ede9... Ex: > echo $PWD /foo/bar/batz/abc/123 > dc bar && echo $PWD /foo/bar Useful for times when I don't want to type a long train of dot slashes(ex. cd ../../..). Also useful when using Zoxide, and I tab complete into a directory tree path where parent directories are not in Zoxide history. Added tab complete f…

Has "dc" the calculator fallen this far out of favor?! :)

> dc is the oldest surviving Unix language program.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dc_%28computer_program%29

I used "dc" (the calculator) just earlier this week. Kids these days? :)

Re: Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

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Post by tom_ »

latexr wrote: post #295
tom_ wrote: post #287

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If you write these sorts of things in Python, argparse is worth investigating: https://docs.python.org/3/library/argparse.html - it's pretty easy to use, makes it easy to separate the command line handling from the rest of the code, and, importantly, will generate a --help page for you. And if you want something it can't do, you can still always write the code yourself!

I don’t like Python in general, but even so I’ll say that argparse is indeed very nice. When I was writing ruby, I always felt that OptionParser¹ wasn’t as good. Swift has Argument Parser², officially from Apple, which is quite featureful. For shell, I have a a couple of bespoke patterns I have been reusing in every script for many years. ¹ https://github.com/ruby/optparse ² https://github.com/apple/swift-argument-pa…

Regarding other ports, I've also been pretty happy with https://github.com/nodeca/argparse, which works nicely from Typescript. Looks like it hasn't been updated for a while, but it's not like there's a great deal wrong with it.

https://github.com/p-ranav/argparse is a single-file argparse for Modern C++, which means it's typically straightforward, if baffling in places and a bit annoying to step through in the debugger.

The nice thing about the argparse ports is that provided they take their job seriously, your programs will all end up with a vaguely consistent command line UX in terms of longopt syntax, and, importantly, a --help page.

Re: Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

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Post by fragmede »

fragmede wrote: post #319
tacone wrote: post #253

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Good point, when working with keybindings, you'll inevitably end up overriding built-ins. I see it as a trade-off, between something I don't know of (and wouldn't use) and something I find useful. Works for me :)

absolutely. From back in the day, the annoying one was GNU screen, which took over ctrl-a by default. Overrode that to be ctrl-^, which in bash is transpose, make "zx be "xz", which was rare enough to okay with losing.

it was ctrl-t, not ctrl-^

Re: Scripts I wrote that I use all the time

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Post by alanh »

YouAreWRONGtoo wrote: post #123
latexr wrote: post #33

> 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…

Instead of trash, reimplementing rm (to only really delete after some time or depending on resource usage or to shred of you are paranoid if the goal is to really delete something) or using zfs makes much more sense.

The idea of changing what 'rm' does sets off all of my "foot-gun" alarm bells
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