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 …

Search System

1 min read · data search locate plocate

You can search every file on the computer instantly by installing plocate. Once installed, run sudo updatedb to create the database of (nearly) every file on the computer. Check how big the database is: 1du -h /var/lib/plocate/plocate.db Once you have the database, you can find nearly any file instantly. Search for …

Search Video Audio

1 min read · data video

Check subtitles available: 1url='https://videos.domainepublic.net/videos/watch/d9567d5b-1add-477c-bce3-a58cef84c28c' 2yt-dlp --list-subs "$url" | grep --max-count=1 '^en' The original language often displays with -orig, e.g. en-orig (Original). Language Formats ar vtt az vtt bg vtt ca vtt cs vtt da vtt de vtt el vtt en …

Sharing Secrets

1 min read · data death secrets ssss

You can share parts of a secret with multiple people, so only some of them need to agree to see the secret. Install ssss, then decide on the total number of secrets (N), and the threshold of people who must share their shard of the secret in order to reveal the secret. 1N=5 2T=3 3FILE=secret.txt 4fortune | ssss-split …

snaps

1 min read · system Ubuntu snap

sudo apt-get purge -y snapd

soft links

2 min read · basics links

A soft link is a file which says how to go to another file. When a program encounters a soft link, it will make a guess at whether it should ignore it, or try to get to that file. To make a soft link to a file in the current directory, linking is easy: 1fortune > $file_1 2ln -s $file_1 $link_1 Now imagine your …

Soft Serve Maintenance

1 min read · data git server maintenance

Over time git repositories become bloated with old data, but never get cleaned. I can't find an official way to clean up the crud, so I did this: 1usermod -aG soft-serve $USER 2# Log out and back in for this to take effect. 3 4cd /var/lib/soft-serve/data/repos 5sudo chmod -R g+w * 6git config --global --add …

Soft Serve through https

1 min read · data git server lfs

http Setup In this example, the port used is 23231, but it can be anything. Open /var/lib/soft-serve/data/config.yaml and make sure the http section looks like this:

The HTTP server configuration. http: # The address on which the HTTP server will listen. listen_addr: ":23232" # The path to the TLS private key. …