Commands tagged github (10)

  • Backup all starred repositories from Github


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    GITUSER=$(whoami); curl "https://api.github.com/users/${GITUSER}/starred?per_page=1000" | grep -o 'git@[^"]*' | xargs -L1 git clone
    wuseman1 · 2022-06-25 20:39:12 399
  • Get info about a GitHub user

    In this example 'git' is the user name and the output format is YAML but you can change this to XML or JSON, eg: curl http://github.com/api/v1/json/usernamehere Show Sample Output


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    curl http://github.com/api/v1/yaml/git
    rkulla · 2010-05-30 00:18:00 6
  • Get info about a GitHub project

    In this example we search for 'vim' but vim doesn't have a project on github right now. That's ok, this command still searches for every project that has 'vim' in their description (forks, plugins, etc). To get XML or JSON output just replace 'yaml' in the url with 'xml' or 'json'. Show Sample Output


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    curl http://github.com/api/v1/yaml/search/vim
    rkulla · 2010-05-30 00:29:03 3
  • Generate a Change Log with git

    Generate a changelog between the v1 and v2 tags Show Sample Output


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    git log --no-merges --format="%an: %s" v1..v2
    blakegardner · 2013-06-17 21:06:45 7
  • Clone all repos from a user with lynx

    https://wuseman.github.io/wcloner/


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    lynx -dump -nonumbers https://github.com/USER?tab=repositories|grep '/USER/'|cut -d'/' -f1,2,3,4,5|uniq|xargs -L1 git clone
    wuseman1 · 2018-09-01 06:03:23 317
  • Clone starred github repos in parallel with unlimited speed, this example will clone 25 repositories in parallel at same time.


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    GITUSER=$(whoami); curl "https://api.github.com/users/${GITUSER}/starred?per_page=1000" | grep -o 'git@[^"]*' | parallel -j 25 'git clone {}'
    wuseman1 · 2022-06-27 18:58:46 403
  • [git] Output remote origin from within a local repository

    Great way to quickly grasp if a locally cloned repository originates from e.g. github or elsewhere. Show Sample Output


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    git config --local --get remote.origin.url
    hced · 2011-10-03 09:29:34 3
  • Open the current project on Github by typing gh

    Written for Mac OSX. When you are working in a project and want to open it on Github.com, just type "gh" and your default browser will open with the repo you are in. Works for submodules, and repo's that you don't own. You'll need to copy / paste this command into a gh.sh file, then create an alias in your bash or zsh profile to the gh.sh script. Detailed instructions here if you still need help: http://gist.github.com/1917716


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    git remote -v | grep fetch | sed 's/\(.*github.com\)[:|/]\(.*\).git (fetch)/\2/' | awk {'print "https://github.com/" $1'} | xargs open
    brockangelo · 2012-04-15 20:48:46 20
  • Print github url for the current url

    Works for repos cloned via ssh or https. Show Sample Output


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    git remote -v | sed -n '/github.com.*push/{s/^[^[:space:]]\+[[:space:]]\+//;s|git@github.com:|https://github.com/|;s/\.git.*//;p}'
    bartonski · 2019-10-11 16:50:22 264
  • Install a Minetest mod from GitHub

    Where $1 = author and $2 = mod name You need to be running a daily build of Minetest (for example from the 'minetestdevs/daily-builds' PPA), or some bleeding edge mods will not work or crash the game. Update a mod by entering its subdirectory under ~/.minetest/mods and doing git pull && git submodule update --recursive --remote --init


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    cd ~/.minetest/mods && git clone --recursive https://github.com/$1/$2.git
    lordtoran · 2015-09-30 19:24:59 13

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Run a command only when load average is below a certain threshold
Good for one off jobs that you want to run at a quiet time. The default threshold is a load average of 0.8 but this can be set using atrun.

Convert spaces in file names to underscores

Which processes are listening on a specific port (e.g. port 80)
swap out "80" for your port of interest. Can use port number or named ports e.g. "http"

list folders containing less than 2 MB of data
This command will search all subfolders of the current directory and list the names of the folders which contain less than 2 MB of data. I use it to clean up my mp3 archive and to delete the found folders pipe the output to a textfile & run: $ while read -r line; do rm -Rv "$line"; done < textfile

Burn CD/DVD from an iso, eject disc when finished.
cdrecord -scanbus will tell you the (x,y,z) value of your cdr (for example, mine is 3,0,0)

Shows a specific process memory usage

Create a single PDF from multiple images with ImageMagick
Given some images (jpg or other supported formats) in input, you obtain a single PDF file with an image for every page.

Print sensors data for your hardware

batch convert Nikon RAW (nef) images to JPG
converts RAW files from a Nikon DSLR to jpg for easy viewing etc. requires ufraw package

a function to create a box of '=' characters around a given string.
First argument: string to put a box around. Second argument: character to use for box (default is '=') Same as command #4948, but shorter, and without the utility function.

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