Docs | Splint.rs

Recfiles Extended Example

Requirements 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 …

Recfixes

1 min read · data recfiles

Requirements 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 …

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 …

Reformat a Markdown Table

1 min read · writing vim markdown

Requirements vim basics This markdown table is badly messed up: 1| File | Category | 2|:------|:---------| 3| calendar.md | tex| 4| tex_packages.md | tex| 5| completion.md | vim| 6| csv_to_md.md | vim| 7| format_md.md | vim| Highight from the top with V6j, then run column to fix the output: 1:!column -ts'|' -o '|' It …

Review: git-secret

1 min read · data git review

This utility is largely useless, as it can only identify people by their email. So if someone has multiple GPG keys associated with one email, the tool will not work. A broken tool is better than a tool which will break soon.

Rundown: column

1 min read · format json column

Put output into columns 1ip a | grep inet | column -ts' ' Reformat user accounts with an explicit separator (-s) 1column -ts: /etc/passwd Sort user accounts into columns with names 1column -ts: -N User,PW,UID,GID,Description,Home,shell -H PW,GID /etc/passwd Hide some columns with -H. Sort user accounts into columns and …

Rundown: curl

1 min read · writing comfy dict curl writing web html2markdown curl

Request a definition from the terminal. 1word='abderian' 2curl -s dict://dict.org/define:${word}: Convert a web page to markdown 1curl -sL "${url}" | html2markdown > "${file}}".md The html2markdown and html2md programs works better than any other.

Rundown: dig

1 min read · ip network dig

Find your public IP address 1dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver$((RANDOM % 4 + 1)).opendns.com

Rundown: ffmpeg

2 min read · vision music video ffmpeg

Translate a media file to a new type 1ffmpeg -formats 2ffmpeg -i ${input} ${output} Reduce video quality 1quality=20 2ffmpeg -i ${input}.mp4 -vcodec libx264 -crf ${quality} ${output}.mp4 A crf quality of 18 is high, while 24 is low quality. Convert from mkv to mp4 with a codec 1ffmpeg -i ${input}.mkv -codec copy …

Rundown: find

1 min read · comfy fzf find

Quickly find and open run-command files 1alias rrc='$PAGER "$(find . -maxdepth 2 -name "*rc" | fzf)"'