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1. dd-progress

   Get the progress of the dd command

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2. rip grep and other new cli tools

   Fast alternative to grep

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3. bash-links

   Links to good resources about bash and shell scripting in general

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4. vimdiff remote files

   vimdiff a scp://host//a

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5. ssh forward to link local

   Lang: en Status: published

   At some point I used Jupyter notebooks on different computers and with different Python versions and wanted to distinguish them. So I gave them IP addresses with the Python version encoded in them and the host all within the local block 127..

   But how do I …

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6. bash-default-variables

   Default-Variable

   Auf den beiden großartigen englischsprachigen Seiten zur Bash-Prgorammierung tldp und cyberciti kann man jede Menge Tricks zur Variablenmanipulation in bash finden.

   Ein sehr häufiger Fall ist die Default-Variable. Dabei gibt es zwei verschieden Fälle. Der mit dem Gleichheitszeichen (=), mit integrierter Zuweisung des Wertes

   echo ${varname:="default value"}
   

   Hier hat …

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7. ls-tricks

   Tricks with ls

   List files except those with a specific extension (zsh)

   To list all files in the current directory except those with special extensions often is very useful. For example if I am in a directory with many plots or many data files and only a few others in …

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8. sshfs

   Mount a folder remotely

   I like sshfs the secure shell filesystem. But sometimes I forget how the unmounting command is, so I write this short note to myself.

   The mounting part is intuitive:

   sshfs HOST:PATH mountpoint
   

   It mounts the given path from the given host to the given mountpoint …

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9. X-forwarding combined with sudo

   X11 forwarding combined with sudo

   Unfornunately I have no better solution found for X-forwarding and sudoing afterwards, yet.

   This solution is insecure, but works as a dirty hack.

   user:~$ xauth list | grep unix$(echo $DISPLAY | cut -c10-12) > /tmp/xauth
   user:~$ sudo -s
   root:~# xauth add $(cat /tmp/xauth)
   root …

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