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: …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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). 1Language Formats 2ar vtt 3az vtt 4bg vtt 5ca vtt 6cs vtt 7da vtt 8de vtt …

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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 …

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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 …

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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: 1# The HTTP server configuration. 2http: 3 # The address on which the HTTP server will listen. 4 listen_addr: ":23232" 5 6 # The path to the TLS private …

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