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PaulChana / NormalDistribution.cpp

Last active August 29, 2015 14:23

C++11 Normal distribution random numbers

	#include <random>

	std::mt19937 generator;
	double mean = 0.0;
	double std = 1.0;
	std::normal_distribution<double> normal(mean, std);
	const double normalNumber = normal(generator);

PaulChana / LineStartsWith.sh

Last active August 29, 2015 14:23

Get lines starting with a string in bash

	grep "^String_to_find" "myfile.txt"

	# example:
	# grep "^Bugfix:" "~/myfile.txt"
	# Finds and returns all lines that start with Bugfix:

PaulChana / GitCommitMessages.sh

Last active August 29, 2015 14:23

Git commit messages since tag

git log --pretty=format:%s <LAST_RELEASE>..HEAD

PaulChana / LastTag.sh

Last active August 29, 2015 14:23

Last tag on git branch

git describe --abbrev=0 --tag

PaulChana / NM.sh

Last active August 29, 2015 14:23

Print binary symbols

nm "PATH TO EXE" > "OUTFILE.txt"

PaulChana / TerminalTextColour.sh

Last active August 29, 2015 14:23

Colourize text in terminal

	function printError
	{
	# Number after setaf is the colour...
	# 0 - black
	# 1 - red
	# 2 - green
	# 3 - yellow
	# 4 - blue
	# 5 - magenta
	# 6 - cyan

PaulChana / ResartPrefsServer.sh

Last active June 6, 2017 08:42

Restart OSX preferences server (forces reload of prefs on app start)

killall cfprefsd