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kathawala / mt_depts.csv

Created August 22, 2015 08:49

	DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES	4041439825.4495
	DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION	2305045669.05002
	DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE	1437437534.65
	DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION	1263305003.25008
	OFFICE OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION	451130738.55
	MONTANA STATE FUND	420293464.210003
	DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND INDUSTRY	404242881.190003
	DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE	365923960.079999
	COMMISSIONER OF HIGHER EDUCATION	311434469.469999
	DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS	288275698.659999

kathawala / zip-only.sh

Created May 24, 2015 01:33

one-liner to zip all .c and .h files in a directory

find . | grep -E '\.(c|h)$' | zip six.zip -@

kathawala / cleanpkg.sh

Created May 18, 2015 05:23

Removes cached packages which have 2+ more recent package versions cached

	#!/bin/bash

	if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then
	echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2
	exit 1
	fi

	x="zzzzz"
	copies=()
	CLEAN_DIR="/var/cache/pacman/pkg"

kathawala / bigpkg.sh

Created January 17, 2015 20:41

Prints out a list of all pacman packages sorted by size from largest to smallest

	#!/bin/bash

	( echo "PACKAGE SIZE(K)";

	for A in /var/lib/pacman/local/*/desc; do
	egrep -A1 '%(NAME\|SIZE)' $A \
	\| gawk '/^[a-z]/ { printf "%s ", $1 }; /^[0-9]/ { printf "%.0f\n", $1/1024 }'

	done \| sort -nrk2 ) \| column -t

kathawala / getpath.py

Created December 22, 2014 09:49

Python script getting its own directory

	#!/bin/env python

	import inspect
	import os
	import sys

	def get_script_dir(follow_symlinks=True):
	if getattr(sys, 'frozen', False): # py2exe, PyInstaller, cx_Freeze
	path = os.path.abspath(sys.executable)
	else:

kathawala / randomwords.py

Created December 15, 2014 05:47

Prints and erases 5 random lines from a file

	# Reads out 5 random lines from a file and erases them

	import os.path
	import random

	dictionary = open("/home/farhan/bin/words", "r")
	words = set()
	last_pos = dictionary.tell()
	rand_words = list(dictionary)

kathawala / gmail.py

Created December 12, 2014 00:46

A simple parser for GMail's Atom feed xml. Prints out the Title and Summary and Email address of sender

	import xml.etree.ElementTree as etree
	tree = etree.parse('/home/farhan/bin/email.xml')
	root = tree.getroot()

	for entry in root.iter('{http://purl.org/atom/ns#}entry'):
	for title in entry.findall('{http://purl.org/atom/ns#}title'):
	print ('TITLE: ', title.text)

	for author in entry.findall('{http://purl.org/atom/ns#}author'):
	for email in author.findall('{http://purl.org/atom/ns#}email'):

kathawala / play.sh

Created December 8, 2014 08:59

A script to download a youtube video and play it in smplayer, good for flash-only videos or long videos which buffer

	#!/bin/bash

	#utility to play a youtube video after the url has been cut using ctrl-x
	youtube-dl -o "/home/farhan/Downloads/frmyoutube.%(ext)s" "$(xclip -o)" \| tee /home/farhan/bin/play.log

	#make sure we don't have any errors
	if [ $(grep -i "error" ~/bin/play.log) ]; then
	echo "Error downloading video. Try again :("
	exit 1
	fi

kathawala / undecorate.ds

Created November 29, 2014 19:40

1-line window undecoration rule for devilspie

(undecorate)

kathawala / ram.sh

Created November 28, 2014 23:06

Little script to print out your memory usage

	#!/bin/bash

	# free is a utility which provides statistics about memory in use
	# -m flag provides memory in Mb
	# awk takes all the arguments from grep and can print them
	USED=`free -m \| grep cache: \| awk '{print $3}'`
	TOTAL=`free -m \| grep Mem: \| awk '{print $2}'`

	# bc is a linux calculator which can print floating point
	# scale determines number of decimals (ex: 0.00)

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