Awk · Wizards of the Web

Sort git Config

As I was updating some gitflow config today, I noticed that my .gitconfig is a little messy. Like many things, it’s grown organically and I’ve just never thought about tidying it up. It doesn’t have to be organized, but neat and tidy files always make things more fun. Sorting .gitconfig was a bit more challenging than I was expecting. A naive sort mixes sections and values. $ cat ~/.gitconfig | sort

rofi

rofi: Matching and Sorting

This is the fifth in a series of several posts on how to do way more than you really need to with rofi. It’s a neat little tool that does so many cool things. I don’t have a set number of posts, and I don’t have a set goal. I just want to share something I find useful. This post looks at configuring rofi’s matching and sorting. Assumptions Code Overview Comparison Basic Sort Config (Yet Another) rofi Options Script Full Script Change Matching and Sorting Via a modi Assumptions I’m running Fedora 27.

rofi

rofi: Change Window Location

This is the fourth in a series of several posts on how to do way more than you really need to with rofi. It’s a neat little tool that does so many cool things. I don’t have a set number of posts, and I don’t have a set goal. I just want to share something I find useful. This post looks at changing rofi’s window location. It also introduces some rofi dmenu usage to handle input and ends with a introduction to script modi.

rofi

rofi: Scripting modi Discovery

This is the third in a series of several posts on how to do way more than you really need to with rofi. It’s a neat little tool that does so many cool things. I don’t have a set number of posts, and I don’t have a set goal. I just want to share something I find useful. This post looks at automatically updating modi lists. It also covers some intro awk stuff, so feel free to skip around.

CLI

Remove Consecutive Duplicate Lines With awk

I ran into an interesting problem yesterday. At some point, while scripting updates to a collection of repos, I managed to duplicate a few lines in several files. I ended up with something like this: README.md 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 # `dotfiles-role-javascript` # `dotfiles-role-javascript` [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/thecjharries/dotfiles-role-javascript.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/thecjharries/dotfiles-role-javascript) [![GitHub tag](https://img.shields.io/github/tag/thecjharries/dotfiles-role-javascript.svg)](https://github.com/thecjharries/dotfiles-role-javascript)

Vagrant

Ubuntu Notes: Unlocking /var/lib/dpkg

I ran into some issues this morning setting up a Xenial box via Vagrant. On boot, /var/lib/dpkg was totally locked with nothing I knew to link it to in ps aux. I’ve created a fairly novel solution; my point today was to learn about something new. You should have a basic familiarity with the Linux CLI. If you don’t know what systemd is, that’s not a big deal. Skip to my take on a full solution if you’d like, but make sure to read the disclaimer first.

NPM

NPM Lifecycle Stages: A Study in Stream Editors

A majority of my work, both business and pleasure, is done in Node. I support a fairly large codebase which always needs maintenance. As I get new ideas or learn new techniques, the codebase grows. No matter how organized I try to be, every project seems to spawn half a dozen new projects. New projects means new config and packages and builds and instead of doing things the right way, I’ve just been shuffling a few master files around.