Let’s say you have a JSON file and in it is an array of values. Each value has a few properties you need to pick from to ultimately create a file name. Here is an example using bash, jq, in2csv and xargs that can be strung together in one line…
Let’s say you want iterate over a series of sequential numbers with Bash. If so, then you could do the following: Now, let’s say you want to loop over a sequence of numbers, but you want to skip over by 10 each time: Supposedly, this syntax should work, but it…
This is more painful than it should be, but if you are interested in placing a Bash script in the Mac OS X Dock, follows these steps. You can’t simply just drag a *.sh file to the Dock for some reason; however, if you rename the file to have the…
This is a cheatsheet for the defacto standard for editing files in Linux / Unix at the terminal or command line. Admittedly, it can be intimidating and frankly confusing to get started if you never have used it; however, it comes with nearly every installation of an operating system based…
By default, my BitBucket Git repository uses the HTTPS URL instead of the SSH. As a result, I get prompted for my password every time I push code to my BitBucket Git repository. [code language=”bash”] $ git push Password for ‘https://<repo_owner>@bitbucket.org’: [/code] You should see your BitBucket account username in place…
If you want to host your Jenkins locally on your computer for testing, but are interested in leveraging BitBucket’s webhooks to point to your localhost, then you need to expose your computer to the outside world. There are several ways to do this, but the easiest I have found is…
Recently I was getting a new development environment set up and I needed Git Bash. I noticed that Git Bash would start at an l drive when I launched it, instead of my user’s home directory. To change the directory to your user’s actual home directory, simply execute the following…