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megahall / fix-home.bash

Last active July 3, 2026 02:47

maked home subdirectories on Debian work like the ones on Ubuntu and Kubuntu

	#!/bin/bash
	sudo aptitude install xdg-user-dirs xdg-user-dirs-gtk
	xdg-user-dirs-update --force
	xdg-user-dirs-gtk-update
	rm -r ~/.local/share/user-places.xbel*
	sudo systemctl restart sddm

megahall / update-codex.bash

Created June 17, 2026 19:23

simple script to update Codex in CWD

	#!/bin/bash

	script_directory="$(dirname "$(realpath "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")")"
	cd "${script_directory}"

	version="${1:-0.140.0}"

	wget -O "codex-npm-linux-x64-${version}.tgz" "https://github.com/openai/codex/releases/download/rust-v${version}/codex-package-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.gz"
	tar xzf "codex-npm-linux-x64-${version}.tgz" bin/codex
	mv bin/codex codex

megahall / ssh.bash

Last active December 21, 2024 09:14

how to detect brute force SSH connections in a short time window, and apply the ban for a long time window

megahall / watermark.bash

Created October 23, 2024 19:01

Watermark Your PDF With A Specific String In Linux

	#!/bin/bash

	watermark="${1}"
	shift

	wm_pdf="$(mktemp -t watermark_XXXXXX.pdf)"

	convert -background none -fill "rgba(128, 128, 128, 0.7)" -gravity center -font Arial -pointsize 96 "label:${watermark}" -bordercolor none -border 10x10 "${wm_pdf}"

	for input in "$@"; do

megahall / .pythonrc

Last active November 11, 2015 23:24

	# export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pythonrc

	import atexit
	import base64
	import binascii
	import json
	import os
	import re
	import socket
	import string

megahall / ovftool-esxi-deploy.bash

Created October 21, 2015 01:52

deploys OVA files onto ESXi with high performance

	#!/bin/bash

	set -e -x

	images=$(ls some_directories/*.ova)
	suffix="test_A"

	for image in ${images}; do
	image_name=$(basename "${image}" ".ova")
	count=1