https://waylonwalker.com/tags/bash/ All posts with the tag "bash" Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:59:57 +0000 markata-go https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification https://waylonwalker.com/vaulted-secrets-without-git-churn/ 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... Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:59:57 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/vaulted-secrets-without-git-churn/ hello@waylonwalker.com bash ansible https://waylonwalker.com/columns-env-var/ setting env var to a number greater than 0 will make the terminal resize to that number of columns. Wed, 26 Nov 2025 13:24:38 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/columns-env-var/ hello@waylonwalker.com python bash terminal https://waylonwalker.com/tar-over-ssh/ 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... Sat, 13 Sep 2025 10:50:42 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/tar-over-ssh/ hello@waylonwalker.com bash linux homelab https://waylonwalker.com/thought-756/ !https://pype.dev/2025-07-10-notes/ Fri, 18 Jul 2025 15:26:28 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/thought-756/ hello@waylonwalker.com linux bash thought https://waylonwalker.com/fc/ 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... Fri, 18 Jul 2025 07:52:53 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/fc/ hello@waylonwalker.com linux bash https://waylonwalker.com/unset-multiple-environment-variables/ 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... Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:21:11 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/unset-multiple-environment-variables/ hello@waylonwalker.com linux bash https://waylonwalker.com/thought-521/ !https://bic.sh/ Thu, 09 Jan 2025 14:22:47 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/thought-521/ hello@waylonwalker.com blog markdown bash thought https://waylonwalker.com/thought-445/ !https://github.com/casey/just?tab=readme-ov-file#constants Sat, 14 Dec 2024 17:04:06 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/thought-445/ hello@waylonwalker.com bash linux just thought https://waylonwalker.com/thought-444/ !https://github.com/thechangelog/pipedream/blob/main/justfile Sat, 14 Dec 2024 16:54:34 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/thought-444/ hello@waylonwalker.com bash linux just thought https://waylonwalker.com/urllink/ Today I discovered the function in bash from the ujust tool from ublue.it. Seems like a cool trick, but might not work everywhere. Sat, 14 Dec 2024 11:11:52 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/urllink/ hello@waylonwalker.com bash https://waylonwalker.com/thought-441/ !https://pype.dev/hostnamectl-to-easily-change-hostname Fri, 06 Dec 2024 14:30:41 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/thought-441/ hello@waylonwalker.com bash linux thought https://waylonwalker.com/convert-mp4-for-twitter-with-ffmpeg/ 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... Thu, 25 Jul 2024 12:51:29 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/convert-mp4-for-twitter-with-ffmpeg/ hello@waylonwalker.com bash https://waylonwalker.com/cli-auth/ 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... Sun, 17 Dec 2023 20:09:03 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/cli-auth/ hello@waylonwalker.com bash https://waylonwalker.com/jpillora-installer-til/ 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... Wed, 04 Oct 2023 19:28:33 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/jpillora-installer-til/ hello@waylonwalker.com bash https://waylonwalker.com/thought-6/ !https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/deleting-specific-lines-in-a-file-with-sed-or-yq Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:59:37 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/thought-6/ hello@waylonwalker.com linux bash cli thought https://waylonwalker.com/fail-ci-scripts/ 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... Wed, 07 Dec 2022 13:09:37 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/fail-ci-scripts/ hello@waylonwalker.com bash github actions ci-cd https://waylonwalker.com/ewhich/ I am often editing my own scripts as I develop them. I want to make a better workflow for working with scripts like this. Tue, 10 May 2022 14:57:35 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/ewhich/ hello@waylonwalker.com bash https://waylonwalker.com/linux-unzip-directory/ 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... Sat, 02 Apr 2022 16:20:34 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/linux-unzip-directory/ hello@waylonwalker.com linux bash cli https://waylonwalker.com/bash-mktemp/ 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... Wed, 02 Mar 2022 14:52:08 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/bash-mktemp/ hello@waylonwalker.com bash cli linux https://waylonwalker.com/aws-eventbridge-visidata/ Reading eventbridge rules from the command line can be a total drag, pipe it into visidata to make it a breeze. Tue, 15 Feb 2022 03:04:26 +0000 https://waylonwalker.com/aws-eventbridge-visidata/ hello@waylonwalker.com python cli bash