Put this shell script somewhere in your path and run it by feeding it value/label pairs like this:
$ bars
10 one
20 two
30 three
Robert Bost bostrt
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| #!/usr/bin/env bash | |
| GIT_DIR_SAVE=$GIT_DIR ; unset GIT_DIR | |
| GIT_WORK_TREE_SAVE=$GIT_WORK_TREE ; unset GIT_WORK_TREE | |
| if [ ! -f "${OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR}composer/bin/composer" ]; then | |
| export COMPOSER_HOME="${OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR}.composer" | |
| echo $COMPOSER_HOME > ${OPENSHIFT_HOMEDIR}.env/user_vars/COMPOSER_HOME | |
| echo "Installing composer" | |
| curl -s https://getcomposer.org/installer | env - PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH" php -- --install-dir=$OPENSHIFT_DATA_DIR >/dev/null |
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/ soma.py
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June 10, 2019 14:32
Command line script to play somafm radio stations. Type `soma.py --help` for usage, but briefly: `soma.py <stationname>` plays the station, `soma.py` with no argument lists the available stations. Uses mplayer to do the playing (change with --player option).
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| #!/usr/bin/env python | |
| from __future__ import print_function | |
| import sys | |
| import subprocess | |
| import argparse | |
| import textwrap | |
| import signal | |
| stations = { |
markusfisch
/ README.md
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March 28, 2025 12:20
Generate a bar chart by reading value/label pairs from stdin
isaacs
/ node-and-npm-in-30-seconds.sh
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April 14, 2025 11:07
Use one of these techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo. Discussed in more detail at http://joyeur.com/2010/12/10/installing-node-and-npm/ Note: npm >=0.3 is *safer* when using sudo.
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| echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc | |
| . ~/.bashrc | |
| mkdir ~/local | |
| mkdir ~/node-latest-install | |
| cd ~/node-latest-install | |
| curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1 | |
| ./configure --prefix=~/local | |
| make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds... | |
| curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh |
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