When working on many feature branches, they tend to accumulate in the local Git clone. Even if they get deleted in upstream shared repos, they need to be cleared locally, too, otherwise they will stick around forever.
Here’s a quick one-liner to clean up every branch that is fully merged to main. It does make sure not to delete main and develop, though.
git branch -d $(git branch --merged main | grep -vE '(^\*|master|main|develop)')
As idle musing, and a way to show off my mastery of shell pipelines, I was wondering what my most-used shell commands are. It’s an easy few commands to pipe.
history | sed 's/^ *//;s/ \+/ /g' | cut -d' ' -f 2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | tail -n 20The outcome is rather expected. I feel validated (by my shell) in my own self-perception!
Continue readingI recently had to restore databases from a rough mysqldump backup in a piecemeal fashion. One necessity is to SET the environment correctly, lest some weird encoding issues happen when restoring the data, leading to failures.
A sed one-liner can help for this.
DBNAME=mydb
sed -n "/^-- Server version/,/^-- Current Database/p;/^-- Current Database.*${DBNAME}\`/,/^-- Current Database/{p}" mysqldump.sql > ${DBNAME}.sql
This extracts SQL from the initial header, to the first database, which contains all the sessions SETs. It then captures statements any time the target database is the current one. Note that this doesn’t restore the GRANTs.
Befor blindly piping the output SQL into mysql, one would be well advised to review the contents of the file, to ensure only the desired modifications are included.
GitHub now allows to expand/collapse all files in a PR diff at once (pressing Alt while clicking one of the toggles). Unfortunately, there is no similar feature to mark all files as viewed. This is handy after having reviewed meaningful changes to file, and automatically modified/generated files can be ignored.
So here goes a one-liner for the JS console.
Array.from(document.getElementsByClassName('js-reviewed-toggle')).forEach(c => c.getElementsByTagName('input')[0].checked || c.click())
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Every now and then, some spurious peaks show up on munin graphs. The peaks are order of magnitude higher than the expected range of the data. This particularly happens with DERIVE plugins, that are notably used for network interfaces.
One way to fix this, as suggested by Steve Schnepp (and in the faq), is to set the maximum straight into the RRD database, and then let it reprocess the data to honour this maximum.
Continue readingWhen using syspatch on OpenBSD, the upgrade sometimes fails with
Relinking to create unique kernel... failed! !!! "/usr/libexec/reorder_kernel" must be run manually to install the new kernel
This generally happens after a system upgrade, or an otherwise manual change of kernel. This fix is to update the kernel hash, before re-running reorder_kernel.
# sha256 /bsd > /var/db/kernel.SHA256 # /usr/libexec/reorder_kernel
Sometimes, one just needs an OAuth access token (for the client credential authentication flow).
export ACCESS_TOKEN=$(curl -X POST \
--user "${CLIENT_ID}:${CLIENT_SECRET}" \
--data-urlencode "grant_type=client_credentials" \
--data-urlencode "scope=${SCOPE}" \
${TOKEN_URL} \
| jp -u access_token)
I finally mastered the shell (beit bash or zsh, but really, this is readline)’s history with command replacement. It took me 19 years and my entire family fortune to gather enough wits to read that part of the manual with enough attention and will as to learn to use it.
Essentially, you can recall previous commands from the history with !number. You can then change some content of the previous command programmatically before running it by adding :s/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/ or :gs/PATTERN/REPLACEMENT/ (the first one will replace the first occurrence, the second one will replace them all).
lpr -P <PRINTER> /usr/share/cups/data/testprint
security export -k /System/Library/Keychains/SystemRootCertificates.keychain -t certs -p
Useful for plain Unix/OpenSSL tools.