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Datapkg 0.8 Released

By Rufus Pollock On February 9, 2011 · Leave a Comment

A new release (v0.8) of datapkg, the tool for distributing, discovering and installing data is out!

Release: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/datapkg Docs: http://packages.python.org/datapkg/

There’s a quick getting started section below (also see the docs).

About the release

This release brings substantial improvements to the download functionality of datapkg including support for extending the [...]

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PyWordPress – Python Library for WordPress

By Rufus Pollock On January 5, 2011 · 1 Comment

Announcing pywordpress, a python interface to WordPress using the WordPress XML-RPC API.

Download: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pywordpress/ Source code: https://bitbucket.org/rgrp/pywordpress/ Usage Command line

Check out the commands::

wordpress.py -h

You will need to create a config with the details (url, login) of the wordpress instance you want to work with::

cp config.ini.tmpl config.ini # now [...]
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Counting Words in a Latex File

By Rufus Pollock On August 24, 2007 · 1 Comment

Much of this was inspired by this blog post. Having tested on my own set of files I would suggest that these methods could be ranked in order of accuracy as:

TexCount.pl untex + wc wc pdf file wc $ wc -w file.tex

This is very simple but is pretty inaccurate since wc has [...]

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Running OpenOffice from the Command Line on Mac OSX

By Rufus Pollock On August 12, 2007 · 2 Comments

This is a simple hack to enable you to start OpenOffice and, more importantly, open documents with it from the command line. I’ve got the standard X port of OpenOffice 2.0 installed, so if you have something different you may need to change the path to soffice given below (to find soffice on your machine [...]

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Merging Subversion Repositories Together

By Rufus Pollock On March 23, 2007 · Leave a Comment

Have repository {start-repo} and want to merge into {old-repo} at {some-dir-name}

# if you just wanted trunk replace with this # svndump {start-repo} | svndumpfilter include trunk svnadmin dump {start-repo} > my-dump # copy file to main server and change to web-user svnadmin load –parent-dir {some-dir-name} {old-repo} < my-dump
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csv2ascii: display csv as ascii tables

By Rufus Pollock On October 13, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Having looked around for a while without success for something that would spit out csv files as ascii tables I decided to hack something together. The result is a small python script csv2ascii.py. It is currently fairly crude, for example it just truncates cell text which is too long, but I hope I’ll have [...]

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Find and Replace Across Multiple Files

By Rufus Pollock On September 22, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Archiving for my own benefit the results of yet another 5 minute look for how to do find and replace across multiple files from the command line:

Use sed:

sed -i ‘s/foo/foo_bar/g’ *.html

use the old perl hack:

perl -w -pi~ -e ‘s/foo/bar/’ [files]

Notes: -p: loop, -i edit files in place (backup with extension [...]

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Stephenson’s: In the beginning was the command line

By Rufus Pollock On July 14, 2006 · Leave a Comment

Despite its free availability i can’t find one version formatted in a way I actually like. Anyway here’s a link to one of the least bad (it’s plain vanilla html and supposedly a copy of the page Stephenson first posted on his website): http://steak.place.org/dougo/inthebeginning.html

Published in 1999 and though now a little dated this [...]

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wdiff: compare two files word by word

By Rufus Pollock On July 14, 2006 · Leave a Comment

debian/ubuntu: apt-get install wdiff macosx: fink install wdiff

From apt-cache show:

wdiff’ is a front-end to GNU diff. It compares two files, finding which words have been deleted or added to the first in order to create the second. It has many output formats and interacts well with terminals and pagers (notably with less’).wdiff’ is [...]

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