olih

Processing JSON using jq

jq is useful to slice, filter, map and transform structured json data.

Installing jq

On Mac OS

brew install jq

thomaslarsen

Convert a PEM based file to JSON

This snippet will convert a PEM based certificate of key to JSON format. This is useful when having to embed a certificate in a JSON object.

It will simply add \n in the required places.

The snipped was copied from here: https://docs.vmware.com/en/Unified-Access-Gateway/2.9/com.vmware.access-point-29-deploy-config/GUID-870AF51F-AB37-4D6C-B9F5-4BFEB18F11E9.html

dinvlad

/* This script auto-generates a Google OAuth token from a Service Account key,
 * and stores that token in accessToken variable in Postman.
 *
 * Prior to invoking it, please paste the contents of the key JSON
 * into serviceAccountKey variable in a Postman environment.
 *
 * Then, paste the script into the "Pre-request Script" section
 * of a Postman request or collection.
 *
 * The script will cache and reuse the token until it's within

atheiman

# Install GNU parallel in a CentOS-based docker container (e.g. for CI/CD)
# install needed dependencies
yum install -q -y bzip2 tar make perl
# download source
curl -s -L -o /tmp/parallel.tar.bz2 https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/parallel/parallel-latest.tar.bz2
# extract source
tar -C /tmp -xjf /tmp/parallel.tar.bz2
# navigate into extracted source
cd /tmp/parallel-*
# build and install