bash

I write a lot of bash scripts for both my day job and my personal projects, and while they are functional, bash scripts always seem to lack that structure that I want, especially when compared to writing something in Go or C#. The main problem I have with bash scripts is that when I use functions, I lose the ability to log things. For example the get_config_path function will print the path to the configuration file, which will get consumed by the do_work function:...

My normal development laptop runs Windows, but like a lot of developers, I make huge use of Docker, which I run under Hyper-V. I also heavily use the git bash terminal on windows to work. Usually, everything works as expected, but I was recently trying to run an ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) container, and needed to pass in an extra configuration file for Logstash. This caused me a lot of trouble, as nothing was working as expected....

My work’s wifi is much faster than my 4G connection, so periodically I want to update all my docker images on my personal laptop while at work. As I want to just set it going and then forget about it, I use the following one liner to do a docker pull against each image on my local machine: docker images | grep -v REPOSITORY | awk '{print $1}'| xargs -L1 docker pull If you only want to fetch the versions you have the tags for:...

Git is great, but creating some git aliases is a great way to make your usages even more efficient. To add any of these you can either copy and paste into the [alias] section of your .gitconfig file or run git config --global alias.NAME 'COMMAND' replacing NAME with the alias to use, and COMMAND with what to run. So without further ado, here are the ones I have created and use on a very regular basis....