Praveen Kumar praveenkumar

progrium/bashstyle

Bash is the JavaScript of systems programming. Although in some cases it's better to use a systems language like C or Go, Bash is an ideal systems language for smaller POSIX-oriented or command line tasks. Here's three quick reasons why:

It's everywhere. Like JavaScript for the web, Bash is already there ready for systems programming.
It's neutral. Unlike Ruby, Python, JavaScript, or PHP, Bash offends equally across all communities. ;)
It's made to be glue. Write complex parts in C or Go (or whatever!), and glue them together with Bash.

This document is how I write Bash and how I'd like collaborators to write Bash with me in my open source projects. It's based on a lot of experience and time collecting best practices. Most of them come from these two articles, but here integrated, slightly modified, and focusing on the most bang for buck items. Plus some ne

tmux shortcuts & cheatsheet

start new:

tmux

start new with session name:

tmux new -s myname

	package main

	import (
	"fmt"
	"os"
	"path/filepath"
	)

	func main() ([]string, error) {
	searchDir := "c:/path/to/dir"

	# README:
	# Copy this file to /usr/lib/systemd/system/
	# sudo systemctl daemon-reload
	# systemctl enable ipython-notebook
	# systemctl start ipython-notebook
	# The WorkingDirectory and ipython-dir must exist
	# If you don't want anything fancy, go to http://127.0.0.1:8888 to see your notebook
	# wheneber you want it

	[Unit]

	git archive --format=tar --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 \| gzip >git-1.4.0.tar.gz # Create a compressed tarball for v1.4.0 release.

	git archive --format=zip --prefix=git-1.4.0/ v1.4.0 > git-1.4.0-docs.zip # Create a compressed zipball for v1.4.0 release.

	# Credit http://stackoverflow.com/a/2514279
	for branch in `git branch -r \| grep -v HEAD`;do echo -e `git show --format="%ci %cr" $branch \| head -n 1` \\t$branch; done \| sort -r