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Friday, January 29, 2021

Custom aliases in oh-my-zsh

With oh-my-zsh, you can store custom aliases in multiple (?per application) file under .oh-my-zsh/custom giving them .zsh file extensions.1

¶For example, in my hugo.zsh file, I have:

alias hnewtil="/Users/alan/Documents/blog/ojisan/scripts/newtil.sh"
alias gtojisan="cd /Users/alan/Documents/blog/ojisan; ls -l;"

Executing inline Python in a shell script

It’s possible using the -c command.2

python -c 'import foo; foo.bar()'

  1. https://scottwhittaker.net/posts/oh-my-zsh-custom-aliases/ ↩︎

  2. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16908236/how-to-execute-python-inline-from-a-bash-shell ↩︎

Thursday, January 28, 2021

A bunch of Unix date scripting things

Unix shell scripting is not one of my better-know areas of programming, but it’s on my list of things to learn. Some interesting bits about the date function.1

  1. Want the long date, like Thursday, January 28, 2021? → date +"%A, %B %d, %Y"
  2. Want something like the above but with abbreviated month Thursday, Jan 28, 2021? → date +"%A, %b %d, %Y"
  3. Time zone in the format of "-05:00" on macOS is:
#!/bin/bash

tz=$(date +"%z" | sd '(\d{2})(\d{2})' '$1:$2')
echo $tz
  1. Long date in the format of 2021-01-28T05:30:48-05:00 that is use by Hugo2:
tz=$(date +"%z" | sd '(\d{2})(\d{2})' '$1:$2')
md_date=`date +"%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S"`
  1. Speaking of dates, this reference has very detailed information on date and time in the Unix shell.
  2. Date in the format of 2021-01-28 is date +"%Y-%m-%d"

Unix slurp command output into a variable

In the UNIX shell, slurping the output of the command into a variable is done this way:3