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AlexGascon / curl-exercises.md
Last active September 29, 2019 08:46
Curl exercises - https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/08/27/curl-exercises/

curl exercises

In this gist I'll upload the solutions to the 21 curl exercises proposed by Julia Evans on this blogpost. While curl definitely isn't a life-changing skill, it's a tool that can be really useful once you master it, and considering the low investment that is required it's definitely a good time investment

All the solutions contain the command that needs to be run to solve the exercise; apart from that, some of them will include also the response that we've obtained, or a small explanation about the different arguments of the command that we've used. That will make it easier for people reading this to get a better understanding of the solution.

Exercise 1

Request https://httpbin.org

Command: curl https://httpbin.org

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AlexGascon / unrarer.py
Last active June 20, 2020 16:37
Python script to uncompress all the rar files in the current directory and delete the compressed .rar afterwards. It uses several system subprocesses in parallel to speed-up the process. Also valid if the files are protected with a password. Requires the rarfile (https://pypi.org/project/rarfile/) package
import glob
import multiprocessing
import os
import rarfile
NUM_PROCESSES = 5
PASSWORD = None # Set to a string if the rar files are protected with a password
def log(msg):
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AlexGascon / splitter.py
Created May 12, 2024 17:42
Python script to split an audio file into 29-minute fragments
import datetime
import json
import shlex
import subprocess
import sys
FFMPEG_COMMAND = 'ffmpeg -i "{cap_name}" -ss {start_time} -t 00:29:00 -acodec copy "{cap_name}_part_{number}.{extension}"'
DESIRED_AUDIO_FRAGMENT_LENGTH_SECONDS = 29 * 60 # 29 minutes