Last week I walked you through how I was able to create a bash shell script to perform OCR on PDFs using the open source library ocrmypdf that George from Tulsa taught us about. I was very proud of my little script, but I realized that running a script isn’t a very mainstream thing to […]
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CCATP #763 — Bart Busschots on PBS 148 – A Bash Potpourri (Subshells, Relative Paths & More)
This week’s Programming By Stealth is a great lesson on how no matter how long you’ve been coding, you’ll still get caught out from time to time and think that the universe makes no sense. When Bart was working on the challenge from PBS 147, he ran into a bizarre situation for many hours. He […]
Continue readingCCATP #758 – Bart Busschots on Programming By Stealth 144
This week our guest is Bart Busschots with Programming By Stealth 144. When last we recorded, Bart started teaching us the basics of shell scripting using Bash. We learned how to collect terminal commands into a reusable shell script, but we didn’t learn how to accept any kind of input. In this installment, we learn […]
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Finder and Terminal in the Same Window – Fun with Scripts — by Bruce from Tennessee
This is Bruce from Tennessee, aka UseTheData, with a tip for working with the Finder and Terminal. The problem to be solved is that, when working with files, I find some operations to be easier in the Finder and others to be easier in the Terminal. There are times where I needed a terminal window […]
Continue readingCCATP #757 Bart Busschots on PBS 143 — Shell Script Basics
In this week’s episode of Programming By Stealth, Bart Busschots starts building out one more tool in our toolbox: shell scripts. Bart starts with the basics explaining how to tell our little scripts which shell to run using the shebang line, the structure of shell scripts, commenting, assigning, and using variables, and how to write […]
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NC #894 Hazel Script of Doom, Tiny Mac Tips Part 2, Security Bits
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, June 26, 2022, and this is show number 894. mp3 download In 2020, Steve and I were supposed to go on a trip to Iceland, but of course, […]
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My Hazel Script of Doom™️
In March of this year, I wrote a blog post entitled, “I Have Made Fire – Shortcut with Shell Script to Mount a NAS Share”. I was so proud of my little self because I’d written my first shell script to solve a real problem and I’d used a Shortcut with it just to prove […]
Continue readingNC #879 Podfeet is Wicked Fast, Gator Frameworks Boom Mic Stand, Apple Shortcut Plus Shell Script Fun
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, March 13, 2022, and this is show number 879. This has been a crazy last couple of weeks and I can’t wait to tell you why. I’ve got […]
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I Have Made Fire – Shortcut with Shell Script to Mount a NAS Share
I’m a huge fan of the well-known app Hazel from Noodlesoft. You’ve probably heard of it and may use it yourself, but just in case you haven’t I’ll briefly describe what it does and the problem it solves for me. Hazel watches folders you specify and then takes action on the items in those folders […]
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Fun Automation Project – Moving Blog Post Links to the Podcast Feed
NosillaCast Links Visible in Downcast Have you ever noticed that when you’re listening to the NosillaCast in your podcatcher of choice that you also get a list of the links to each blog post article that’s in the show? You can simply tap those links to get right to the content, see the images, and […]
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