How to enable source highlighting when doing `less mycodefile.ext`

How to enable source highlighting when doing less mycodefile.ext Install source-highlight sudo apt install source-highlight Configure it on your .bash_profile lessWithSourceHighlightSetup() { # location of the script may vary src_hilite_pipe_script=`dpkg -L libsource-highlight-common | grep lesspipe` export LESSOPEN=”| ${src_hilite_pipe_script} %s” export LESS=’ -R ‘ } lessWithSourceHighlightSetup Use it on any code file less -N /path/to/mycode.ext view […]

[bash scripting] `contains_item` bash function. Check if an item is in an array

[bash scripting] How to get a file’s name without its extension(s).

Say you have an encrypted file file.foo.gpg and you want to make a shorthand command to decrypt that file, you’ll want the resulting file to be named file.foo (without the .gpg), or say you want the name, with no extension?), you can use bash’s magic variable voodo for that. A simple version of that script […]

Quick N Dirty way to Map Commands to remote servers via ssh

You may be running several independent but similar servers at the same time and wasting time by executing commands in all of them one by one. Wouldn’t it be nice to send a command to all of them at once? or to monitor all of them at once. The following script can be used as […]

Mac OSX Terminal too slow to open?

Try this: rm ~/.fonts.cache-1 Open a new Terminal, it should open pretty fast after that.