Posts tagged: bash Archive

Vaulted Secrets Without Git Churn

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:59:57 +0000

Ansible Vault keeps secrets out of sight, but the ciphertext changes on every encrypt. That turns Git diffs into noise and makes it hard to tell if anything...

COLUMNS env var

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:24:38 +0000

setting env var to a number greater than 0 will make the terminal resize to that number of columns.

tar over ssh

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 10:50:42 +0000

Today I learned how to use tar over ssh to save hours in file transfers. I keep all of my projects in ~/git (very creative I know, I've done it for years and...

💭 2025-07-10 Notes

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:26:28 +0000

!https://pype.dev/2025-07-10-notes/

fc

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 07:52:53 +0000

I am a linux user through and through. Desktop, server, vms, containers, everything except my phone is linux. With this I spend a lot of time in the...

unset multiple environment variables

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:21:11 +0000

You can unset multiple environment variables at once. I did not know this was a thing, its something that ended up happening organically on a call and asking...

💭 bic | Static blog generator, in bash

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:22:47 +0000

!https://bic.sh/

💭 casey/just: 🤖 Just a command runner

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 17:04:06 +0000

!https://github.com/casey/just?tab=readme-ov-file#constants

💭 pipedream/justfile at main · thechangelog/pipedream

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:54:34 +0000

!https://github.com/thechangelog/pipedream/blob/main/justfile

urllink

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 14 Dec 2024 11:11:52 +0000

Today I discovered the function in bash from the ujust tool from ublue.it. Seems like a cool trick, but might not work everywhere.

💭 hostnamectl to easily change hostname | Pype.dev

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:30:41 +0000

!https://pype.dev/hostnamectl-to-easily-change-hostname

convert mp4 for twitter with ffmpeg

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:51:29 +0000

I've had a couple of uploads to twitter fail recently and has been a pain. I tried some online converters for convenience, but none of them worked. I reached...

cli auth

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 17 Dec 2023 20:09:03 +0000

Authentication from cli tools can be a bit of a bear, and I have to look it up every time. This is my reference guide for future me to remember how to easily...

jpillora-installer

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 19:28:33 +0000

jpillora/installer is the install script generator I have been looking for. It downloads binaries for your machine from GitHub releases and unzips them for...

💭 Deleting Specific Lines in a File with sed or yq

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:59:37 +0000

!https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/deleting-specific-lines-in-a-file-with-sed-or-yq

dash e your github docker actions

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 13:09:37 +0000

Give github actions the -e flag in the shebang so they fail on any one command failure. Otherwise each line will set the exit status, but only the last one...

Bash function to edit scripts faster

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 10 May 2022 14:57:35 +0000

I am often editing my own scripts as I develop them. I want to make a better workflow for working with scripts like this.

Unzip minecraft mods to their directory from the command line

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 16:20:34 +0000

This morning I was trying to install a modpack on my minecraft server after getting a zip file, and its quite painful when I unzip everything in the current...

Bash mktemp

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 14:52:08 +0000

There is GNU coreutils command called that is super handy in shell scripts to make temporary landing spots for files so that they never clash with another...

View AWS event bridge rules with visidata

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 03:04:26 +0000

Reading eventbridge rules from the command line can be a total drag, pipe it into visidata to make it a breeze.

ag silver searcher look ahead and look behind

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 13:54:08 +0000

A super useful tool when doing PR's or checking your own work during a big refactor is the silver searcher. Its a super fast command line based searching...

Neovim Config for Git

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 14:23:57 +0000

Creating a minimal config specifically for git commits has made running much more pleasant. It starts up Much faster, and has all of the parts of my config...

fuzzy wallpaper with fzf

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 01:17:26 +0000

I really appreciate that in linux anything can be scripted, including setting the wallpaper. So everytime I disconnect a monitor I can just rerun my script...

2 minutes to stow

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:33:58 +0000

Stow is an incredible way to manage your dotfiles. It works by managing symlinks between your dotfiles directory and the rest of the system. You can then...

Tmux Pop size

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 17:37:26 +0000

tmux popups can be sized how you like based on the % width of the terminal on creation by using the flags (h, w, x, y) for height, width, and position.

Changing copier template strings (_endops)

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 10:55:12 +0000

I was completely stuck for awhile. copier was not replacing my template variables. I found out that adding all these fixed it. Now It will support all of...

copier template variables

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 12:37:32 +0000

I've been looking for a templating tool for awhile that works well with single files. My go to templating tool does not work for single files, it needs to...

List all the files containing a phrase

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 31 Dec 2021 20:24:48 +0000

One of the most useful skills you can acquire to make you faster at almost any job that uses a computer is getting good at finding text in your current...

My first impressions with pyenv

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 15:26:01 +0000

pyenv provides an easy way to install almost any version of python from a large list of distributions. I have simply been using the version of python from...

Installing Homebrew on Linux

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 29 Dec 2021 20:24:48 +0000

Installing brew on linux proved quite easy and got pyenv running for me within 4 commands.

Serve html from your command line

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 20:24:48 +0000

When I first moved to vim from and ide like vscode or sublime text one of my very first issues was trying to preview my website at . There had always just...

Code Review from the comfort of vim | Diffurcate

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 04 Dec 2021 11:34:47 +0000

I often review Pull requests from the browser as it just makes it so easy to see the diffs and navigate through them, but there comes a time when the diffs...

Open files FAST from zsh | or bash if thats your thing

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 11:34:47 +0000

https://youtu.be/PQw_is7rQSw

30 days dotfile ricing

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 29 Nov 2021 11:34:47 +0000

https://youtu.be/Jq1Y48F_rOU

Update Alternatives in Linux

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 10:38:00 +0000

update-alternatives --query python update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for python sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/local/bin/python python `which python3.8` 2 # update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/python3.8 to provide /usr/local/bin/python (python) in auto mode sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/local/bin/python python `which python2.7` 5 # update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/python2.7 to provide /usr/local/bin/python (python) in auto mode update-alternatives --query...

JUT | Read Notebooks in the Terminal

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 20 Nov 2021 10:38:00 +0000

Trying to read a .ipynb file without starting a jupyter server? jut has you covered.

Trim unused git branches

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 07 May 2021 09:47:24 +0000

Trim branches no longer on origin # git remote prune origin --dry-run git remote prune origin Find branches already merged # git checkout main # list remote branches that have already been merged into main git branch -r --merged # list local branches that have already been merged into main git branch --merged

Create a Virtual File Gallery with Symlinks

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 05 May 2021 08:23:33 +0000

Creating a directory that is a union of several directories can be achieved with a few symlinks at the command line.

How to Install micromamba on linux (from the comamnd line only)

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 21 Apr 2021 13:32:27 +0000

I really like using conda () as my python virtual environment manager of choice. It's simple and it includes its own python interpreter using the version...

Vim Wsl Clipboard

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I've long used neovim from within windows wsl, and for far too long, I went without a proper way to get text out of it and into windows.

Quickly Edit Posts

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Recently I automated starting new posts with a python script. Today I want to work on the next part that is editing those posts quickly.

If Tmux

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 09 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

I do much of my work from tmux, I love it so much that I want to setup some functionality that puts me in tmux even if I didn't ask for it.

Newsboat

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sat, 02 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Web browsers are a black hole of productivity. I try to use them as little as possible when it is time to focus. I try to use , , or with ipython, or --help...

Ipython Ninjitsu

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

??sourcecode * %debug * %history * %reset * !shell commands

Scripting Tmux Layouts

hello@waylonwalker.com — Sun, 13 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This is how I script a tmux layout

Compare Directories In Bash

hello@waylonwalker.com — Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Today I needed to check for articles that used the same slug from two directories, bash made it super simple.

Find and Replace in the Terminal.

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 05:00:00 +0000

notes about find and replace techniques

Creating Reusable Bash Scripts

hello@waylonwalker.com — Thu, 13 Aug 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Bash is a language that is quite useful for automation no matter what language you write in. Bash can do so many powerful system-level tasks. Even if you are...

How to Install miniconda on linux (from the command line only)

hello@waylonwalker.com — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 05:00:00 +0000

Installing miniconda from only the command line can be a bit of an intimidating task your first time. Lets walk through how to do it.

025.md

hello@waylonwalker.com — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 02:16:24 +0000

setup

026.md

hello@waylonwalker.com — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 05:00:00 +0000

setup

inline YAML or path to separate file (e.g.: .github/filters.yaml)