On one of my servers, I created a subdomain called “uploads,” serving as a temporary spot for files I want to share or transfer. However, this directory keeps expanding uncontrollably. To manage it, I wrote a Bash script that will run directly or as a cron job to remove files that have overstayed their welcome, specified in the script in days.
(more…)Category: Snippets
Sometimes, the StackOverflow method of copying and pasting code snippets is all it takes to overcome a certain issue or implement a feature. Follow the minimal descriptions and copy and paste away!
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CLI script to turn one or more Unix timestamps into a human-readable format
There are many ways to convert from Unix timestamps into a human-readable format. You can use either one of the many online converters, like unixtimestamp.com, or your command line (CLI). But converting a list with many timestamps. But converting a list with many timestamps can be tedious if done manually. This little Bash script will take care of this for you.
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Easy example: Create a Nuxt 3 API endpoint to store data into an SQLite database
If it hasn’t been obvious at this point, let me tell you: I am a huge fan of Nuxt 3. In my opinion, it’s the best JavaScript Meta-Framework that’s out there and in active development.
But this snippet is not a eulogy for Nuxt. I’m sharing a rather long code snippet with you, written in TypeScript, that creates a Nuxt RESTful API endpoint. You can use this URL to send data to it via a
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Extract subtitles from a movie file and save it as an .srt file using Bash
The film industry in Germany is definitely not Hollywood, but every now and then, there’s a movie that’s worth watching, e.g., “Glauben” (English: “The Allegation”) or “Terror” (“The Verdict”), both by the writer and lawyer Ferdinand von Schirach—that my non-German wife doesn’t understand.
Luckily, the German media libraries of public broadcast channels come with subtitles—in German, but those can be translated easily online if you extract the
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Simple Bash function to use md5sum for string input
Using macOS for most of my work, if I want to retrieve the hash of a string, macOS provides an easy
md5function, located under/sbin/md5and callable in any terminal:$ md5 -s 'Hey md5!'Linux does things a little differently, but with a single line in Bash, you can keep the easy macOS syntax.
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