ches

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Name: Ches

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Python chdir context manager

This context manager restores the value of the current working directory (cwd) after the enclosed code block completes or raises an exception. If a directory name is supplied to the context manager then the cwd is changed prior to running the code b...

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0 860 posted 13 years ago by ches

Bash imapsync script to migrate Gmail to Google Apps

Based on the good initial coverage [over here](http://www.thamtech.com/blog/2008/03/29/gmail-to-google-apps-email-migration/).

Bash
email

1 894 posted 15 years ago by ches

Bash Compute Directory Size Recursively with du

Bash

0 799 posted 16 years ago by ches

Bash Perl Search and Replace One-liner with xargs -0

\Q...\E perl quoting means no ugly escaping in the regex. find's -print0 with xargs -0 is the secret to handling files with spaces in their names.

1 1134 posted 16 years ago by ches

Bash Deleting Blank Lines Using AWK

Create a copy of a text file with blank lines removed.

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0 699 posted 16 years ago by ches

Ruby Ruby One-liner for Restoring One Table from a Huge SQL Dump

Courtesy of Jesse.

2 972 posted 16 years ago by ches

Python Alternate Table Row Classes in a Mako Template

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0 869 posted 17 years ago by ches

Python Quick, Simple Password Generator

Obviously there's no real crytpo here -- use this for cases like regenerating and emailing a user password.

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1 1009 posted 17 years ago by ches

Bash Batch File Rename with awk and sed

Leave off the final pipe to /bin/sh to do a 'dry run'

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3 1403 posted 17 years ago by ches

Python FormEncode Email Address validation schema

model/form.py is a good place to put schemata in a pylons app: easy to build with inheritance and accessible to controllers via model.form.EmailForm, etc. See the link for further info on the _extra_fields options -- this one is intended for just two...

1 1194 posted 17 years ago by ches

Python python date suffixes for strftime

like PHP's 'jS'

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0 1776 posted 17 years ago by ches

XML htaccess one-liner for MT URL restructuring

Build URLs for subcategories, e.g. 'cat-child-support.html' becomes '/family-law/child-support/'

0 807 posted 17 years ago by ches