Update 2 is proving to be the most useful method. Update 1 Somehow I missed the documentation regarding the --feedback argument for the drush mi command. It’s similar to the methods below in that it helps you see that the migration is…
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Recursively Finding and Operating on the Largest n Number of Files of a Particular Type
If you want to reverse-engineer this, you can work from left to right, adding one command at a time to see what each step does to the output.
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du -ah . | grep -v "/$" | sort -rh | grep "jpg" | head -25 | cut -f 2 | while read -r line ; do ls -alh "$line"; done |
This example just lists the files we found, which is pointless…
Delete Last Command from Bash History
If you’re like me, on occasion you accidentally (or sometimes purposefully) include a password in a command. Until recently I would execute history , find the offending command’s number, then do a history -d NUMBER . It is kind of a pain. The following…
Customizable Date variables in Keyboard Maestro
UPDATE: Though the solution below works well, I do recommend following the first commenter’s advice and using the ICUDateTime text tokens instead, which allow you to use any ICU date format, without having to invoke a shell script. Sometimes you need…
Determining Your Most Used Commands in Terminal
I’m always looking to automate things using Alfred, Keyboard Maestro, Text Expander, and Python. I was curious which terminal commands I use most often, so I did some experimenting. Basically I wanted to know how many times I’ve executed each…
“755”-style permissions with ‘ls’
After a quick Google search for “ls permissions octal” I found a very handy alias to put in my .bashrc. Not only is it handy to see the OCTAL value of the permissions for each file/dir, it will undoubtedly help…
Automatically Stage All Deleted Files (Git)
Tab-completion is a really nice thing that we often take for granted. While working with Git I’ve found that it becomes inconvenient to stage (add for inclusion in the next commit) removed files using git rm path/to/my/file.php. Tab completion doesn’t…
Automatically Change Links from Absolute to Relative
In this example I’m showing one way to quickly convert all a href and img src paths from absolute to relative. It’s quite a time saver, but I suggest committing your latest changes before trying anything here! If you aren’t…
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