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#!/bin/bash
function f() {
sleep "$1"
echo "$1"
}
while [ -n "$1" ]
do
f "$1" &
shift
done

A good commit message looks like this:

Header line: explaining the commit in one line

Body of commit message is a few lines of text, explaining things
in more detail, possibly giving some background about the issue
being fixed, etc etc.

The body of the commit message can be several paragraphs, and
please do proper word-wrap and keep columns shorter than about
@nysean79
nysean79 / relaytest.sh
Created January 19, 2012 14:36
SMTP relay test script
#!/usr/bin/env bash
## Version 1.0.2
my_email_body="Test from telnet"
mail_server_ip="127.0.0.1"
mail_server_port="25"
recipient="[email protected]"
sender="\"Ubuntu Server\"<[email protected]>"
nc ${mail_server_ip} ${mail_server_port} << EOF
@johntyree
johntyree / getBlockLists.sh
Last active June 4, 2025 15:24
Make one large blocklist from the bluetack lists on iblocklist.com
#!/usr/bin/env sh
# Download lists, unpack and filter, write to stdout
curl -s https://www.iblocklist.com/lists.php \
| sed -n "s/.*value='\(http:.*=bt_.*\)'.*/\1/p" \
| xargs wget -O - \
| gunzip \
| egrep -v '^#'
@quiver
quiver / trie-autocomplete.py
Created April 4, 2013 15:47
trie-based autocomplete using redis/python
# vim: set fileencoding=utf8
'''
References
- http://stackoverflow.com/a/1966188
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_(data_structure)
$ python suggest.py prefix
'''
import sys
import redis
@willurd
willurd / web-servers.md
Last active August 5, 2025 00:46
Big list of http static server one-liners

Each of these commands will run an ad hoc http static server in your current (or specified) directory, available at http://localhost:8000. Use this power wisely.

Discussion on reddit.

Python 2.x

$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
@reidransom
reidransom / gist:6033227
Last active May 13, 2024 13:13
Configure Zeroconf on FreeBSD

Configure Zeroconf on FreeBSD

Install avahi-app and nss_mdns. Note: avahi-app is chosen over avahi because avahi depends on X11.

$ cd /usr/ports/net/avahi-app
$ sudo make config-recursive
$ sudo make install clean
$ cd /usr/ports/dns/nss_mdns
$ sudo make config-recursive

$ sudo make install clean

@payoung
payoung / tsp_plot.py
Created July 26, 2013 07:51
Python function that plots the data from a traveling salesman problem that I am working on for a discrete optimization class on Coursera. It can take multiple iterations of the path between nodes and plot out the current path as well as the old paths. Helps with troubleshooting and improving the algorithms that I am working on.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
def plotTSP(path, points, num_iters=1):
"""
path: List of lists with the different orders in which the nodes are visited
points: coordinates for the different nodes
num_iters: number of paths that are in the path list
"""
@bruth
bruth / README.md
Created July 31, 2013 13:16
Django command that gives a set of subcommands a namespace. For example, a command named after an app can be defined with a set of subcommands, e.g. `python manage.py command subcommand`.

Subcommander

Managment commands are assumed to be unique across all apps in a Django project. This can lead to long or obscure command names in attempt to namespace those commands.

Subcommander acts as a proxy command giving the real commands a namespace. The subcommander module can be named after the app name or some derivation. The structure looks as follows:

myapp/
    management/
        commands/
@grenade
grenade / 01-generate-ed25519-ssh-key.sh
Last active July 22, 2025 02:26
generate ed25519 ssh and gpg/pgp keys and set file permissions for ssh keys and config
#!/bin/bash
mkdir -p ~/.ssh
# generate new personal ed25519 ssh keys
ssh-keygen -o -a 100 -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/id_ed25519 -C "rob thijssen <[email protected]>"
ssh-keygen -o -a 100 -t ed25519 -f ~/.ssh/id_robtn -C "rob thijssen <[email protected]>"
# generate new host cert authority (host_ca) ed25519 ssh key
# used for signing host keys and creating host certs