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Fixing my .taskpaper reset alias for bash
There was a little problem with my alias to reset a .taskpaper list by removing all of the @dones. It didn’t remove any spaces before the @done, so each line would gain a space every day. This fixes it: alias rst="sed -i '' 's/ *@done\(.*\)//g'" Now it removes one or more spaces that could be…
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Switching terminals in tmux with ALT-numbers
I’m a big tmux fan, switching from screen a few years ago. Lately, I’ve been working on ways to switch between terminals faster. Now I’m using the ALT (Option key actually) under OS X to switch between the different terminals. The switching starts with the backtick and goes across the upper row of the keyboard…
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Working with Taskpaper files in vim
I’ve been experimenting with Taskpaper for lists over the last couple of weeks, and really like the flexibility. All of my lists are stored as text files in Dropbox, which makes it easy to use/update lists from anything or anywhere. On my iPhone I use Drafts to quickly add to the task lists and Editorial…
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Using a Here Document with bash and MySQL
This past week I worked on a bash script to create some input files from a MySQL database. My problem was trying to use multiple line MySQL statements, which was messing everything up. The solution was to use bash’s Here Documents. It’s a way to direct lines into a command. For me, the command looked…
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Resetting a daily taskpaper list
I have a couple daily taskpaper lists that by the end of the have an @done on each line and I need to reset it for the next day. Instead of trying to do a search and replace everyday, I added a bash alias to .bash_profile (or .bashrc): alias rst="sed -i '' 's/@done\(.*\)//g'" The extra…
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Saving bash shell history for multiple shells
The history from the commands typed into bash are very useful from time to time, especially when I think “Oh, I’ll remember that command next time I need it”, and then I don’t. The problem with bash’s history are twofold: It only saves history when the terminal exits cleanly, so if your connection drops or…
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Markdown to presentation
Since my preferred interface is the command line, yesterday I was thinking how cool it would be to knock out a presentation from Markdown. I could work on the content, and not get distracted by the interface. Luckily, I didn’t have to look any further than Pandoc. Pandoc can take a multitude of formats and…
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Jumping to multiple hosts with ssh behind a gateway
At home I have several hosts that I need to ssh into at various times. Unfortunately, since IPv6 is widely deployed, I am stuck sshing into one host that is publically accessible, and from there sshing into other hosts. Cumbersome to say the least, but it does look cool when I’m showing it off. Anyway,…
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Resetting a .taskpaper file
I use a couple of .taskpaper files for checklists of things that need to be done every day. In it, after a task is completed the task gets an @done tag added. But the next day I want to start fresh. I could do a find/replace, but sed at the command line works better: alias…
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