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QR Codes

Make a QR Code image: 1qrencode 'https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.briarproject.briar.android' -o "$FILE".png Make a QR Coded message in the terminal: 1qrencode -t ansi "Hello World" Read a QR Code image: 1zbarimg $FILE Show wifi QR code (only with Network Manager): 1nmcli device wifi show-password

Quality of Life

3 min read · basics setup

This & That Refer to 'that last thing', and 'the first thing': 1fortune -l > file1 2cat !$ | tr -d u 3diff !^ !$ NB: this can go wrong: 1ls -l file1 file2 2cat !^ Done <C-d> If you have a command, Control + d will execute the command. If you have nothing, exit. Clear Search Highlights <Esc>+u Input Run-Commands …

radicale and nginx

2 min read · data calendar

Check before you start: you have a normally running site on nginx already. your server has the directory /etc/nginx/sites-enabled/ enabled in the nginx config. Installation and Service Install radicale through your package manager (not pip). The standard radicale package should come with a nice systemd service file. If …

rclone

1 min read · networking synch

The manpage's 'Synopsis' provides a fast reference. 1 2We'll assume a folder in Google Drive called 'test', and local folder called 'foo'. 3 4Generate a config file with: 5 6```sh 7rclone config Look at the contents of Google Drive: 1rclone ls gd:/ If rclone loses authorization: 1rclone authorization List only …

Recfile Bibliography for TeX

2 min read · data database recfiles tex

Store your bibliography in a recfile database, then extract any part with make. For example, you could store books like this in bibliography.rec: 1%rec: book 2%key: slug 3 4slug: thinkingexperience 5author: H. H. Price 6title: Thinking and Experience 7year: 1953 8publisher: Harvard University Press, Cambridge 9 10slug: …

Recfiles

1 min read · data database

Create: 1database=games.rec 2touch $database 3for g in Vojvodina Saboter Carcassonne Chess; do 4 recins -r "Name: $g" -r "Played: yes" $database 5done Read: 1recsel $database 2query=Carc 3recsel --quick=$query $database 4 5game=Vojvodina 6recsel --expression="Name = '${game}'" $database Update: 1recset …

Recfiles Extended Example

2 min read · data database recfiles

Create Make a database for your boardgames, specifying only one field and value: 1database=games.rec 2n=Name 3g=Vojvodina 4touch $database 5recins -f $n --value $g $database 6recsel $database Insert a few more, with the estimated playtime: 1recins -f Name -v Saboter -f Playtime -v 30 $database 2recins -f Name -v Chess …

Recfixes

1 min read · data recfiles

Sometimes recsel chokes on a large query, and you need to break the query into chunks with a pipe. This Kickstarter file has 374,853 records. Here's the chonky query: 1recsel kick.rec -e "Category = 'Games'" -p "Subcategory,Avg(Goal)" -G Subcategory It breaks down like this: Chunk Meaning recsel kick.rec Select records …

Record a Terminal Session

1 min read · vision share

Record a terminal command, then press 'Control + d' to exit. 1script --timing=time.log stat.txt 2ls -a 3ls -al 4stat ~/.bashrc 5^D Replay the session: 1scriptreplay --timing=time.log stat.txt Try a bare command, without any timing: 1script -c 'top | lolcat' loltop 2nl loltop Has your terminal messed up? Is the cursor …

sc-im

2 min read · TUI data spreadsheet .csv

Sample file Basic Commands See Cells Cells are hard to see. Change this with :set autowrap. Make sc-im always autowrap: 1mkdir .config/sc-im/bash 2echo 'set autowrap' >> .config/sc-im/scimrc Movement Command Key highest part H lowest part L top gg most right. g$ most left. g0 insert middle \ insert left > insert right …