johnflavin/flavin-tools

Flavin Tools

Scripts and stuff

safelink-extractor.py

This takes the stupid "safelink" redirect URLs that you get on links in Outlook and gives back the original URL.

set-up-k8s.sh

Runs the CS kubernetes setup on a machine. All of this is very particular to my local directories and dev machines and so forth. But I wanted to check it in anyway, just in case I need to remember it later.

First copies the CS k8s setup script(s) a script to a machine, which much be in a certain directory. Then runs a script over SSH on the dev machine which will:

• install minikube as root
• run minikube as tomcat
• run the CS script(s) as tomcat

sshl

Short for "ssh login".

This script adds a couple steps to my typical ssh configuration for a dev stack which will switch to the root user and change directory to XNAT's home. I was doing this practically every time I sshed in and wanted it to be automatic.

I could have accomplished this via ssh config instead of a function, and indeed that was my initial implementation. But including these steps in the config for a stack meant any automated ssh or rsync commands also did these steps which I didn't want. Rather than go back and change the automated scripts to add arguments that turn off these options from the config when I don't want them, I removed them from the config and added this function to set them when I do want them.

dropdb

A fish function dropdb.fish and accompanying bash script dropdb.sh. The former runs locally, rsyncs the latter to a dev stack, and runs it. The latter drops the dev stack's database and deletes its archive.

mkAdmin.sh

Pass the name of an XNAT user account. Output a psql script that, when run, will enable the user account and make it a site admin.

pluginsync.fish

Build a plugin xpl jar, rsync it to a specified dev stack, put it into the dev stack's plugins directory, and bounce tomcat.

cssync.fish

Build the container service fat jar, rsync it to a specified dev stack, put it into the dev stack's plugins directory, and bounce tomcat.

xnatsync.fish

Build the XNAT war, rsync it to a specified dev stack, put it into the dev stack's tomcat webapps root directory, and bounce tomcat.

fish_ssh_agent.fish

Starts ssh agent if not already started and configures environment.

10-keychain.py

An ipython startup script. (Named starting with 10 because it doesn't need to be particularly early in the startup sequence.)

Defines a function for getting secrets from the keychain.

conda-develop.sh

A replacement for the conda develop command that doesn't work.

Reads a meta.yaml for its dependency requirements and installs them into a new environment.

This is a pretty quick, rough implementation. It doesn't have a lot of the features one would expect from, like, an official conda develop CLI. But it works for me so I'll just run with it.

my-ip.sh

Find external IP address.

Loads the website ifconfig.me/ip, which does nothing but returns the IP address of your request.

My script uses the http command from httpie but you can swap it with curl or whatever CLI you like to use for HTTP.

window-move.py

This is a script I found on the Super User Stack Exchange site. I was trying to solve a problem that my OS had opened a window where it was "Verifying" an application I was installing, but the verifying process was stuck. I didn't know how to close this window because I didn't know what process it belonged to.

After a bit of googling I found this question and answer: Super User - How to identify which process is running which window in Mac OS X?. Several of the answers conained python scripts that used the system-installed python and the Quartz library to get information about the open windows. The one I settled on as the easiest to use did a two-phase operation:

1. Print out a bunch of info about the open windows
2. Wait for a few seconds, during which time you need to manually move the window in question. It uses that change of window position to identify which window you're interested in and print out info specific to it.

That was enough for me to identify the window and its process. Given the process ID I was able to kill it and the window went away.

notify.sh

Send notifications to the Pushover API.

I mostly use it to ping my phone at the end of some long-running process like transcoding a movie.

homebrew-update.sh

Update everything I have installed from homebrew.

I typically run this via a launch agent, which I have also included in the LaunchAgents directory. It runs every hour to keep everything up-to-date.

Known limitations

The launch agent hard-codes the path to the script and the path to the output logs on my machine. It is certainly not directly applicable to anyone else. But it can easily be adapted to another environment.

Perhaps one day I'll see if I can figure out a way to make those translatable elsewhere.