Bashful Scripting

Chris’s Wiki : blog/unix/BourneShellHereDocToVariable
Suppose, for reasons to be discussed in a later entry, you would like to write a shell script that turns an embedded here document into a shell variable (ie, an unexported environment variable).
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https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/BourneShellHereDocToVariable

Unix command line conventions over time
ETA, 2022-05-19: I’m happy this blog post has gathered a fair bit of interest. However, this post is as much effort as I’m prepared to put into the topic.
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https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2022/05/07/unix-cli/

How to fully uninstall apps in macOS just using bash
When you install a new application on your mac, the setup will throw a lot of files through your system directories. Even after the installation, many apps will continue to create config and helper files in different directories.
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https://kiani.info/how-to-fully-uninstall-apps-in-macos-just-using-bash

onceupon/Bash-Oneliner
I am glad that you are here! I was working on bioinformatics a few years ago and was amazed by those single-word bash commands which are much faster than my dull scripts, time saved through learning command-line shortcuts and scripting.
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https://github.com/onceupon/Bash-Oneliner

Parsing and Validating Dates in Awk
Looking good! How about something wrong? Oh yeah! What about a “bad” date?
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https://blog.jpalardy.com/posts/parsing-and-validate-dates-in-awk/

Shell Tips and Tricks
Hi readers, it’s been a long time since my last blog. I’m not used to blogging regularly, but anyways, I’m trying to keep up. So today I’ll share some shell tips and tricks that I discoverd/read/picked-up-from-the-internet/learned-from-my-friends so that you can make your life easier too.
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https://ev1lm0rty.com/posts/shell-tips-and-tricks/

jless is a command-line JSON viewer designed for reading, exploring, and searching through JSON data.
jless is a command-line JSON viewer. Use it as a replacement for whatever combination of less, jq, cat and your editor you currently use for viewing JSON files. It is written in Rust and can be installed as a single standalone binary. jless currently supports macOS and Linux.
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https://github.com/PaulJuliusMartinez/jless

mdi cli search
mdi cli search I use several tools using https://materialdesignicons.com. I love these icons, but the search is super slow, so i build this tool using fzf, jq and kitty to search and preview icons in the terminal.
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https://github.com/schorsch3000/mdi-cli-search

3 shell scripts to improve your writing, or “My Ph.D. advisor rewrote himself in bash.”
The hardest part of advising Ph.D. students is teaching them how to write. Fortunately, I’ve seen patterns emerge over the past couple years.
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https://matt.might.net/articles/shell-scripts-for-passive-voice-weasel-words-duplicates/

Read XKCD in the terminal with some bash magic
XKCD is probably the most popular webcomic with Devs. It only seems right that you can read it from the comfort of your terminal via a xkcd command. How can we pull that off? I use Kitty as my terminal of choice. It is fast, feature-rich, and is cross-platform (Linux and macOS).
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https://www.roboleary.net/2022/02/24/xkcd-in-the-terminal-with-some-bash-magic.html