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Bash, Python, IPython scripts, and userspace configuration https://westurner.org/dotfiles/

20 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 0 stories, 20 comments · first 2019-04-28 · latest 2026-07-21

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  1. …. -print0 | el -0 -x -- sh -c 'set -x: echo "{0} #"' westurner/dotfiles/scripts/el: "edit lines" https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/el... `el -v/--verbose` is useful because it prints each input; though, I might not…
    comment by westurner · 2026-07-21 · in I wrote an bash enumerator because I was sick of xargs
  2. -InstallPSWindowsUpdate, -UpdateWindows from setup_windows.ps1: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/s... .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45668502 Windows Media Player for XP and Powershell won't run on…
    comment by westurner · 2026-06-02 · in WinUtils: Shell-powered CLI tools for Windows 95
  3. dotfiles/scripts/netstatpsutil.py: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/n... Textual or similar for a top-like mode would be cool someday scripts/lsof.sh does lsof from /proc/*: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/bl…
    comment by westurner · 2025-12-23 · in Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat
  4. Here's this from my setup_windows.ps1 powershell script for maintaining windows: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/s... ; powershell.exe -executionpolicy unrestricted -file ./setup_windows.ps1…
    comment by westurner · 2025-10-22 · in Windows utilities go on every machine I set up
  5. …of Gemini CLI saved chats from before they implemented the /export command: parsegeminiclisaves.sh: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/933e89e7664e58225...
    comment by westurner · 2025-09-16 · in Show HN: Clean Clode – Clean Messy Terminal Pastes from Claude Code and Codex
  6. …to keep userspace updated too, a package manager like Chocolatey NuGet and this power shell script: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/s...
    comment by westurner · 2025-04-09 · in The Mutable OS: Why Isn't Windows Immutable in 2025?
  7. …IDK; consistently-built packages are signed and maintained. The relevant commands from that script: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/v... : sudo semanage fcontext --modify -e "${_equalpth}" "${_path}"; sudo…
    comment by westurner · 2025-04-08 · in SELinux on NixOS
  8. upgrade_mac.sh: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/u... : upgrade_macos() { softwareupdate --list softwareupdate --download softwareupdate --install --all --restart }
    comment by westurner · 2024-11-06 · in Useful built-in macOS command-line utilities
  9. …to edit. These days perhaps not coincidentally I have a script called `e` for edit that opens vim: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/e GORILLA.BAS! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(video_game) gorilla.bas…
    comment by westurner · 2024-09-01 · in Show HN: A retro terminal text editor for GNU/Linux coded in C (C-edit)
  10. …./setup_windows.ps1 -InstallPSWindowsUpdate -UpdateWindows -UpdateChocoPackages setup_windows.ps1: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/s...
    comment by westurner · 2024-02-09 · in Sudo for Windows
  11. …https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/communit... From my upgrade_mac.sh: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/u... : upgrade_macos() { softwareupdate --list softwareupdate --download softwareupdate…
    comment by westurner · 2023-11-10 · in Apple’s first online store played a crucial role in the company’s resurgence
  12. …are no official APKs on the play store as is now necessary to bless binaries with context labels: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/s...
    comment by westurner · 2023-02-23 · in Emacs is on F-Droid
  13. What do you think about getting alt-tab support in there? Here to say this: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/i...
    comment by westurner · 2023-01-07 · in The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3
  14. …ssh -- hostname molecule test # molecule destroy westurner/dotfiles/scripts/upgrade_mac.sh: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/u...
    comment by westurner · 2022-09-19 · in macOS Subsystem for Linux
  15. …"$_TERM_ID" ug "$_TERM_ID" usrlog_grep_parse "$_TERM_ID" ugp "$_TERM_ID" # `type ugp` usrlog.sh: https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/us...
    comment by westurner · 2022-04-01 · in Show HN: Redo – Command line utility for quickly creating shell functions
  16. …years ago I wrote a script called `el` (edit lines) that basically does `xargs -0` with logging. https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/e... It turns out that e.g. -print0 and -0 are the only safe way: line endings…
    comment by westurner · 2021-08-21 · in An Opinionated Guide to Xargs
  17. …a new tab in that gui vim remote if gvim or macvim are on PATH, or just in a console vim if not. https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/e 'editwrd'/'ewrd'/'ew' does tab-completion relative to whatever $_WRD (working…
    comment by westurner · 2019-08-22 · in Vimer - Avoid multiple instances of GVim with gvim –remote[-tab]-silent wrapper
  18. …# <down> -- history search forward (match current input) "\e[B": history-search-forward https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/etc/.inpu...
    comment by westurner · 2019-08-22 · in Things to Know About GNU Readline
  19. …optionally installs virtualenv+virtualenvwrapper, gitflow and hubflow, and some things with pipsi. https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/b... + setup_miniconda.sh that creates a CONDA_ROOT and CONDA_ENVS_PATH for each…
    comment by westurner · 2019-08-11 · in Ask HN: Configuration Management for Personal Computer?
  20. …hackish pytb2paths.sh script: '\s+File "(?P<file>.*)", line (?P<lineno>\d+), in (?P<modulestr>.*)$' https://github.com/westurner/dotfiles/blob/develop/scripts/p...
    comment by westurner · 2019-04-28 · in Show HN: Debugging-Friendly Tracebacks for Python