Stephen Kelly stevekm

Sometimes the email filter at work tries to prevent you from sending certain files so you can use this method to get around it. For example, .app files, or executables, or installers.

tested with OS X and macOS, should work with any system with SQLite and bash installed

store the binary file as a blob in a SQLite database and then the reciepient can extract it.

Sender: add the file to db

my_file="iStat.app"

$ defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles YES
$ killall Finder

Sophos

with Tamper Protection on you cannot normally remove the software, and a password is needed to disable Tamper Protection. However you can also disable it this way

with Tamper protection enabled

/Library/Application Support/Sophos/opm/Installer.app/Contents$ sudo ./MacOS/tools/InstallationDeployer --remove
Password:
Tamper protection check failed. Exiting.

>>> import os
>>> import datetime
>>> file = "my_file.txt"
>>> os.stat(file).st_ctime
1483323862.8774118
>>> os.path.getmtime(file)
1483323862.873167
>>> os.path.getmtime(os.path.getmtime(file))
KeyboardInterrupt

Homebrew

http://brew.sh/

# paste of some of the things I've installed

brew install python
brew install pip
brew install pyenv
brew install pip --upgrade

The codes:

# system info
system("uname -srv", intern = TRUE)

# dir
system('pwd',intern=T)

# date time

from here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5597836/embed-create-an-interactive-python-shell-inside-a-python-program

paste this inside your script for debugging, to start a Python interactive terminal shell session at that point in the script, super useful for debugging since it lets you explore the Python environment and access objects and variables as they are at that point in the script.

import readline # optional, will allow Up/Down/History in the console
import code
vars = globals().copy()
vars.update(locals())

Here are some handy commands for connecting to servers and copying files about. These are all for Linux terminal / bash shell

Do cool things with ssh; log in & run command, find files in dir

# log into server
ssh [email protected] -Y 
# -X      Enables X11 forwarding. <- use this to enable X11 graphical windows, but this will eventually time out & you'll lose the X11 connection
# -Y      Enables trusted X11 forwarding. <- this one preserves your X11 connection while you're logged in

	wget http://www.openbioinformatics.org/annovar/download/annovar.latest.tar.gz.mirror
	tar xzvf annovar.tar.gz
	cd annovar

	# download databases (goes to UCSC)
	./annotate_variation.pl -buildver hg19 -downdb 1000g2010nov humandb
	./annotate_variation.pl -buildver hg19 -downdb avsift humandb
	./annotate_variation.pl -buildver hg19 -downdb refGene humandb
	./annotate_variation.pl -buildver hg19 -downdb mce46way humandb/
	./annotate_variation.pl -buildver hg19 -downdb snp131 humandb/

	{
	"color_scheme": "Packages/Monokai Extended/Monokai Extended.tmTheme",
	"draw_white_space": "all",
	"font_size": 18,
	"ignored_packages":
	[
	"Vintage"
	],
	"ignored_words":
	[