Jan

26

Display your terminal colors

January 26, 2013 | Leave a Comment

Playing with my brand new ZSH prompt, I needed to get a preview of my terminal colors. To see the result above, you can : download this script [display_colors.py] and save it locally run it with python /path/to/display_colors.py –terse When working on your prompt (or any other output you with to colorize), you can pick […]

Jun

7

Installing OpenSSH on Windows 7

June 7, 2011 | 67 Comments

Today, I was tempted to take control of a Windows machine remotely in console mode as I’m trying to script the launch and use of VLC. A quick Google search reveleaed the existence of the sshwindows project which is a more lightweight solution than a full cygwin installation. Here are the installation steps : Download […]

Feb

27

Creating a Mac OS X Finder Droplet for iTerm

February 27, 2011 | 3 Comments

Recently, I stumbled on the Textmate droplet by Henrik Nyh allowing me to quickly open a file or a folder in Textmate by dragging it to the Finder toolbar. Since I had just setup iTerm2 and learned to script it with AppleScript, I figured I’d put the two together and create my own iTerm2 droplet. […]

Jan

29

iTerm2: advanced features

January 29, 2011 | 7 Comments

At bluekiwi, I constantly have no less than 10 opened terminal sessions at the same time. Because it is so easy to launch a command in the wrong window (on the wrong server), I got used to always order my tabs the same way and always give them the same name. As I needed more […]

Jan

23

FTP upload in a script

January 23, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The FTP protocol is simple to use. In a console, type ftp <host> to connect to your host. Enter your login and password when prompted and use get to download and put to upload a file. But what about doing that in a bash script ? Here is a working example of an FTP upload […]

Jan

14

A little help with Grep

January 14, 2011 | 1 Comment

I was triggered by this post on ReadWriteWeb to write a small bash script to make it easy for me to use grep to look for a pattern in my source code. The post on ReadWriteWeb points to the -i -r -E -n -C –colors options to make grep recursively and case insensitively search for […]

  • About Me


    photo of Samantha Halfon Samantha Halfon
    Software Engineer
    blueKiwi software
    Paris, France
    I enjoy playing with my computer(s), listening to Bob Dylan (and related artists) and watching movies (especially if they were directed by Martin Scorsese or John Cassavetes). Sometimes, I play a little guitar... If not doing any of the above, I am either riding a small red bike around Paris, or, making videos. About my videomaking please check out World Wide Angle and its blog.