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Bitly tech talk 4/22/2010

On 4/22 we held a bit.ly tech talk on 'Command Line Fu', where we invited talented hackers to come share their best moves. Please correct my notes and add your fu here!

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# in place file regex replacement
perl -pi -e 's/this/that/g' filename_pattern

# print the last column of a file ($NF stands for 'Number of Fields' or more commonly Last Field).

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import os
import httplib
import tornado.web

class ErrorHandler(tornado.web.RequestHandler):
    """Generates an error response with status_code for all requests."""
    def __init__(self, application, request, status_code):
        tornado.web.RequestHandler.__init__(self, application, request)
        self.set_status(status_code)
    

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import MySQLdb
from DBUtils import PooledDB
from MySQLdb import cursors
import settings
import logging

class DB(object):
    """simple database wrapper"""
    mysqldbpool = None
    

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"""
This module encapsulates all knowledge about what environment your
code is running in (ie: development / production). 

Note: make sure all calls to settings.get() are done at runtime, and not at import time.

usage:

    import settings
    def test():

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import pylibmc
import Queue
import logging
import functools

"""
This is a transparent pool library that wraps a pylibmc client

from MemcachePool import mc
mc.get(key)

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#!/usr/bin/env python

"""
twitter_archiver.py written by Jehiah Czebotar 2010 <jehiah@gmail.com> http://jehiah.cz/

this uses the great 'python twitter tools' library by Mike Verdone
http://mike.verdone.ca/twitter/

usage:
   $ pip install twitter

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"""

this script parses Adium XML log files into a csv

use -u to specify your usernames to look for
use -d to specify the path (with wildcards) to adium xml logs (be careful to check all installed adium versions)

you can then read data with

import csv

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#!/bin/sh
## this is a quick and dirty script to automagically install the latest chromium build on OSX 10.5
## you can set this up as a nightly cron job, or run manually from the command line

# USAGE: 
# save script to your home directory aka /Users/$USER/
# open up a command prompt (aka /Applications/Utilities/Terminal)
# run manually from the command line whenever you want the most recent chromium build
# $ sh get_latest_chromium.sh
# start it as a nightly task (runs at 1am or edit the plist below)

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# Bit.ly API implementation - thanks to Richard Johansso http://gist.github.com/112191
require 'httparty'
 
class Api::Bitly
  include HTTParty
  base_uri 'api.bit.ly'
  format :json
  
  # Usage: Bitly.shorten("http://example.com")
  def self.shorten(url)

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#!/bin/sh

#
# a simple way to parse shell script arguments
# 
# please edit and use to your hearts content
# 


ENVIRONMENT="dev"