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Colorize your stdout with xcol

January 23, 2017May 13, 2018 | by nachoparker | 2 Comments

This little tool will colorize its standard input with a different color for each one of its arguments. Usage xcol imitates the usage of grep, so you can pipe any stdout to it

lspci | xcol audio vga pci usb amd ati hdmi ethernet radeon amd intel

1	lspci \| xcol audio vga pci usb amd ati hdmi ethernet radeon amd intel

, or read from a file

xcol fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse \
  sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext cache cores amd /proc/cpuinfo

1 2	xcol fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse \ sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext cache cores amd /proc/cpuinfo

Just like grep . You can match any regular expression that sed would accept

sudo netstat -putan | xcol httpd sshd dnsmasq pulseaudio conky tor Telegram firefox \
  "[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+" ":[[:digit:]]+" "tcp." "udp." \
  LISTEN ESTABLISHED TIME_WAIT

sudo netstat -putan | xcol httpd sshd dnsmasq pulseaudio conky tor Telegram firefox \

"[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+\.[[:digit:]]+" ":[[:digit:]]+" "tcp." "udp." \

LISTEN ESTABLISHED TIME_WAIT

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git, OYB software

Completely remove a file from a git repository with git forget-blob

January 18, 2017September 8, 2018 | by nachoparker | 5 Comments

Usage

git forget-blob file_to_forget

1	git forget-blob file_to_forget

Installation Get the script from github and make it executable. To do it in one step, paste the following on your terminal

sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nachoparker/git-forget-blob/master/git-forget-blob.sh -O /usr/local/bin/git-forget-blob
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/git-forget-blob

1 2	sudo wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nachoparker/git-forget-blob/master/git-forget-blob.sh -O /usr/local/bin/git-forget-blob sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/git-forget-blob

If you don’t like installing to /usr/local/bin using sudo , just copy git-forget-blob wherever you like. It will work as long as the file is in the $PATH with execute permissions. …

OYB software, shell

Smart tmux sessions

January 15, 2017May 13, 2018 | by nachoparker | Leave a Comment

Usage Instead of tmux just type

start_tmux

1	start_tmux

Installation Get the code from github, and append it to your .zshrc or .bashrc. To do it in one step, paste in zsh

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nachoparker/smart-tmux-sessions/master/start_tmux.sh -O - >> ~/.zshrc

1	wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nachoparker/smart-tmux-sessions/master/start_tmux.sh -O - >> ~/.zshrc

, or in bash

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nachoparker/smart-tmux-sessions/master/start_tmux.sh -O - >> ~/.bashrc

1	wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nachoparker/smart-tmux-sessions/master/start_tmux.sh -O - >> ~/.bashrc

New shell sessions will automatically start or resume a tmux session. Comment last line of .zshrc or .bashrc after …