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Read and scroll

The output from tree is too long. Turn on colours and read with less: 1tree -C | less -R j: scroll down k: scroll up g: go-to top G: go-to bottom q: quit Search with less /<word> to search <Escape>u to undo search highlights Make search case insensitive with less -i. 1less -i README.md The man pages often use less. …

Recfile Bibliography for TeX

2 min read · data database recfiles tex

Requirements Recfiles Makefiles Store your bibliography in a recfile database, then extract any part with make. For example, you could store books like this in bibliography.rec: %rec: book %key: slug slug: thinkingexperience author: H. H. Price title: Thinking and Experience year: 1953 publisher: Harvard University …

Recfile Bugs and Gotchas

2 min read · data recfiles bugs

Requirements Recfiles Only One Join You can't make more than one join, so you can take the record of a book and join it with a publisher, or with an author, but not both. This will not work: 1recsel Book.rec -t Book -j Publisher -j Author -p "Title,Publisher_City,Author_City" Formatting Demands Singular Fields You …

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

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 …

Remote Desktop between Sway

1 min read · networking

Requirements ssh On the Host Install and run wayvnc. 1export WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1 2wayvnc Only the localhost can access this (highly insecure) desktop sharing, at port 5900. On the Client You'll need to disable your main modifier key on the client while accessing the host. Edit ~/.config/sway/config, and create a …

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.