Vim things i forget all the time

Introduction I try to put here some VIM keybindings, that i forget all the time so that i can find them easily, and maybe it will also help someone else. Recording Start recording press q in normal mode followed by a letter ( a to z) Stop recodring press q in normal mode again Replay recording @ Replay the last replay @@ More info you can find on Vim Tips Wiki Or sudo stuff Sudo TIps
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Opyrator instant python web function

How to test opyrator in linux Introduction With opyrator you can create a web function from any python function, it used fastapi, streamlit and pydantic. For this example i just wanted to test what is posible also using pydantic to change some input and output field Setup Start by creating your python virtual environment and activating it python3 -m venv opyrator cd opyrator source bin/activate After that you can install opyrator and what is more needed
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loop device mount partitions

If you have a disk image with multiple partitions, this type of image is used a lot for the raspberry pi, you can easily mount them using kpartx, you can install kpartx as follows

arch linux / manjaro sudo pacman -S multipath-tools # ubuntu 24.04 sudo apt install kpartx # centos 8 / oracle sudo yum install kpartx Maybe you need to insert the loop module, if so you can do that like this

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Split a mysql dump in databases

Hello, I once needed to split a mysql dump in to multiple files, one per database so i used this awk one liner. awk -F'`' '{if ($0 ~ /^– Current Database:/) db=$2; print >> db"-split.sql"}' mysql_dump.sql If you need to split one table from one database you can try the following bash scripts !/bin/bash export DATABASE="$1" export TABLE="$2" echo $DATABASE echo $TABLE awk '/Table structure for table .'$TABLE'.$/,/UNLOCK TABLES/{print}' $DATABASE-split.sql
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reattach ssh or script to new tty

Once in a will you need you have a lang running script that you started into a shell but you want to transfer it to a screen. For this i am using the reptyr program which i installed with sudo pacman -S reptyr or sudo apt-get install reptyr find pid ps ax | grep ssh # find pid 34177 (for example) # start a screen screen -S my_screen_name # in de screen start reptyr reptyr 34177 if you get a issue with ptrace scope just change this value echo 0 | sudo tee /proc/sys/kernel/yama/ptrace_scope
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Screen or Daemontools

If you want to start some daemon in the background you can install daemontools and user supervise, but i like to use screen to start daemons in the background, so that i can easily see the output.

check screen if ! /usr/bin/screen -ls | awk '{print $1}' | grep ".${SCREEN_NAME}$" >/dev/null; then echo "starting $SCREEN_NAME" screen -S "${SCREEN_NAME}" -d -m "$COMMAND_SCRIPT" fi I use this snippet, to check of a screen with a given name exists and if not start it up, i run a script i call screen-ls.

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