asamarin · HackerTrans

Not sure about saving but, more importantly for me, it can read sqlite DBs, which has been a godsend whenever I need to take a quick glance at some random DB just to see what kind of tables it holds and what does the data look like. I know my SELECTs but I can't, for the life of me, remember what are the commands to check schemas and DB metadata on sqlite ("Was it .describe? Maybe .schema? Or perhaps \t? Gah, let's check the help once again..."), so knowing that visidata gets me there much faster feels good.

> Also looks powerful in it's own right

If you aren't convinced of that yet, I'd simply suggest to take a look at this lightning demo (~5 mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1CBDTgGtOU

asamarin

6년 전discuss

> and they're not screenshots

That over there blew my mind, and I had to go back to the page to double-check that. And indeed, it's all clever CSS trickery. Digging further into the source, I found that this was generated using the ansi2html [1] library which I had never heard about before. Thanks for the TIL!

[1] https://github.com/pycontribs/ansi2html

asamarin

6년 전discuss

Article written in 2016, mind you

asamarin

6년 전discuss

The latest addition to my renaming-toolbelt has been `perl-rename'. This thing is just wonderful: I can unleash all the power of perl-based regexes to rename things in bulk.

Case in point: I had a directory containing thousands of .jpg images imported from a foreign filesystem, and all of those files had tildes in them, something like:

  $ ls -1
  EL+�CTRICO_0001.jpg
  EL+�CTRICO_0002.jpg
  EL+�CTRICO_0003.jpg
  ...

You get the idea; note those ugly unrepresentable characters over there. On the original filesystem they read as "ELÉCTRICO", but that tilde was saved using who knows what encoding, and I simply wanted to get rid of them and have nice ascii "ELECTRICO_xxxx.jpg" files. After finding out that the strange unrepresentable character was the byte 0xEB (so, in order to form an "É" you needed those two characters together: a literal '+' and 0xEB), I could do the bulk renaming with just:

  $ perl-rename 's/\+\xeb/E/' *.jpg

Felt so good!

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