Asides

Random wallpaper with just bash and systemd
I’m a big fan of Variety1, probably the most popular wallpaper changer among Linux users. It’s been sitting in my GNOME desktop’s system tray for a long time.
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https://randthoughts.github.io/random-wallpaper-with-just-bash-and-systemd/

EddySchauHai/bashttp
bashttp A simple web server to host index.html with a custom port or 1337 by default.
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https://github.com/EddySchauHai/bashttp

My arsenal of CLI tools
I’ve been seriously using Linux for (just) over 2 years. The thing I take pride in is my pragmatic, albeit flashy at times, CLI setup. This article could be a dotfiles repository but I keep it private because I think it’s too risky. Let’s look into some tools I use daily.
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https://abhijithota.me/posts/cli-tools/

Writing Unit-Tests and Mocks for UNIX Shells
In this post, I will describe how to write unit tests for shell script components wich allow for mocking called commands. In this post, I want to focus on unit tests.
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https://poisel.info/posts/2022-05-10-shell-unit-tests/

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/