Trivial utilities for fun and profit

Length: 1 hour

Description

For this talk, I started with three-hour conference presentation called Welcome to my ~/bin. That presentation was in many small pieces, and I selected some of the smaller, simpler pieces, and and added a bunch of new items just for PLUG, to make a new talk with an emphasis on the usefulness of absurdly small utilities. I explained a few of the items and then invited the audience to choose the remainder.

Outline

Here's the menu of everything for which I had materials available:

Master Menu

But what I actually covered in the talk was:

seating — Format a seating chart
f — replacement for awk
ssh-host — Automatic aliases for ssh
git-command — Automatic aliases for git
plover — log into plover.com with ssh key caching
ineachdir — Run a command in every subdirectory
runN — Run multiple commands in parallel
sw — Run a job in the background, 21st-century style

And a couple of items for which I had no slides prepared, but talked about the source code anyway:

git-re-edit — Edit the same files I was editing before
menupick — Filter the items from standard input, interactively

I think that is most of it, but I forget all the stuff I actually talked about; if you were at the talk and are looking for something I forgot to link, drop me a note and I'll find it for you.

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