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awk Programming Basics

Data-driven scripting language for data extraction and reporting. Line-by-line or record-by-record processing of text files. Blocks Working with a single file BEGIN { print(“”runs at the start of all records””) } { print(“”run for...

Git Tips: Search code with git grep

Introduction Use git grep to search code within the git repo. It makes it very convenient and efficient to do code searches without leaving your terminal (or editor). Setup Git Repo Setting up a sample git repo to play with git grep. git init someproject cd...

Python Tips: Simple HTTP and CGI Servers

Simple HTTP server This server can be used to serve HTML files. # Python2 python -m simplehttpserver # Python3 python3 -m http.server python3 -m http.server 8080 python3 -m http.server 8080 –bind 127.0.0.1 Simple CGI server # Python2 python -m CGIHTTPServer #...

Python Tips: JSON

Parsing JSON import json data = json.loads(json_string) Dumping complex structures import json print json.dumps(something) Convert YAML to JSON import yaml, json with open(‘./file.yaml’) as f:...

Python Tips: chr, ord, ascii

chr, ord, and ascii, are built-in functions in the Python programming language. They are used to convert and represent characters and strings, specifically Unicode and ASCII character sets. chr This function returns a string representing a character whose Unicode code...

Linux Basics

Sed Replace the first occurrence of a string in a file, and print the result sed ‘s/find/replace/’ filename Replace all the occurrences of a string in a file, and print the result sed ‘s/find/replace/g’ filename Replace all occurrences of an...