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@henrik
henrik / ocr.markdown
Created March 3, 2012 17:07
OCR on OS X with tesseract

Install ImageMagick for image conversion:

brew install imagemagick

Install tesseract for OCR:

brew install tesseract --all-languages

Or install without --all-languages and install them manually as needed.

@cdown
cdown / gist:1163649
Last active April 9, 2024 01:10
Bash urlencode and urldecode
urlencode() {
# urlencode <string>
old_lc_collate=$LC_COLLATE
LC_COLLATE=C
local length="${#1}"
for (( i = 0; i < length; i++ )); do
local c="${1:$i:1}"
case $c in
@mxcl
mxcl / uninstall_homebrew.sh
Created August 26, 2011 11:25
Uninstall Homebrew
#!/bin/sh
# Just copy and paste the lines below (all at once, it won't work line by line!)
# MAKE SURE YOU ARE HAPPY WITH WHAT IT DOES FIRST! THERE IS NO WARRANTY!
function abort {
echo "$1"
exit 1
}
set -e
@n8henrie
n8henrie / txt_to_reminders.applescript
Last active March 11, 2024 17:04
Demonstration of using AppleScript with Reminders.app
--taken from http://benguild.com/2012/04/11/how-to-import-tasks-to-do-items-into-ios-reminders/#comment-1346894559
--set theFileContents to (read file "Users:n8henrie:Desktop:Reminders.txt") -- Change this to the path to your downloaded text file with your tasks in it! (Note the : instead of a / between folders) Or, just name them Reminders.txt and put them in your downloads folder
--set theLines to paragraphs of theFileContents
set theLines to {"task name 1", "task name 2"}
repeat with eachLine in theLines
tell application "Reminders"
set mylist to list "Your List Name"
tell mylist
make new reminder at end with properties {name:eachLine, due date:date "7/10/2014 3:00 PM"}
@postmodern
postmodern / Makefile
Last active March 4, 2024 14:42
A generic Makefile for building/signing/install bash scripts
NAME=project
VERSION=0.0.1
DIRS=etc lib bin sbin share
INSTALL_DIRS=`find $(DIRS) -type d 2>/dev/null`
INSTALL_FILES=`find $(DIRS) -type f 2>/dev/null`
DOC_FILES=*.md *.txt
PKG_DIR=pkg
PKG_NAME=$(NAME)-$(VERSION)
@MoOx
MoOx / index.js
Last active February 9, 2024 22:44
Export/import github labels
// go on you labels pages
// eg https://github.com/cssnext/cssnext/labels
// paste this script in your console
// copy the output and now you can import it using https://github.com/popomore/github-labels !
var labels = [];
[].slice.call(document.querySelectorAll(".label-link"))
.forEach(function(element) {
labels.push({
name: element.textContent.trim(),
@un33k
un33k / sed cheatsheet
Created August 22, 2011 13:28
magic of sed -- find and replace "text" in a string or a file
FILE SPACING:
# double space a file
sed G
# double space a file which already has blank lines in it. Output file
# should contain no more than one blank line between lines of text.
sed '/^$/d;G'
@codediodeio
codediodeio / database.rules.json
Last active January 28, 2024 19:07
Common Database Rules for Firebase
// No Security
{
"rules": {
".read": true,
".write": true
}
}

Google Apps Script Spreadsheet Utilities and Custom Functions#

These utilities are grouped into related files, for simpler copy & paste to your scripts.

ConvertA1.gs

A couple of helper functions to convert to & from A1 notation.

cellA1ToIndex( string cellA1, number index )

@ksafranski
ksafranski / expecting.md
Last active November 11, 2023 23:00
Basic principles of using tcl-expect scripts

Intro

TCL-Expect scripts are an amazingly easy way to script out laborious tasks in the shell when you need to be interactive with the console. Think of them as a "macro" or way to programmaticly step through a process you would run by hand. They are similar to shell scripts but utilize the .tcl extension and a different #! call.

Setup Your Script

The first step, similar to writing a bash script, is to tell the script what it's executing under. For expect we use the following:

#!/usr/bin/expect