utils

Standalone utilities and misc notes on system configuration.

Gokberk Cinbis, 2018.

Text and TeX utilities

• alignassign Align assignment statements in source codes.
• aligntable Align table columns. Particularly useful for latex tables via vim & emacs.
• bibrmfield Clean-up bib files easily.
• diffdir Compare directory pairs with helper tools.
• eq2eps,eq2png Generate eps, png files for LaTeX equations.
• pdflatex-remote Compile tex project via a remote server.
• strrep Find and replace patterns in stdin or files.
• tex/ Collection of useful files (Makefile, .gitignore, macros) for LaTeX documents.
• turkish-deasciify-selection-to-clipboard turkish-deasciify selection-to-clipboard.
• unaccent Replace accented letters with ASCII ones.
• vip Open files containing in vim as tabs.

PDF utilities

• catpdf Concatenate multiple pdf files into a single one.
• mypdfdiff Diff two pdfs.
• pdf-add-header-all-pages Add a custom header to all pages of a pdf file.
• pdf-add-header-first-page Add a custom header to the first page of a pdf file.
• pdf-print-two-sided Create and succesively open two pdf files to simplify manual double-sided printing.
• pdf-split-repeating-chunks Split pdf into repeating fixed-length chunks.

Web utilities

• bib2html Auto-create bibliography web page based on a jinja template and YAML-formatted data.
• getpdfXplore Download papers by ID from IEEE Xplore (requires institutional/login-free subscription).
• minify-css Script for minifying CSS files.

Git utilities

• git-checkhash Check whether the current git hash to make sure the right code-base is being used for evaluating a pre-trained model.
• git-find-deleted-file A git shortcut.
• git-remember-passwords Wrapper to set-up git password cache easily.
• git-uniqueid Generate a unique id for the current source code.
• git-writehash Write git hash into a file.
• gitsyncroot-nomsg-periodic Periodically run gitsyncroot-nomsg in the current repository.

System utilities

• du-sorted Compute size of a list of files/directories, print in sorted and human readable form.
• findgrep Easy to use find and grep combinator.
• gnome-color-temperature Shortcuts to alter Gnome color temperature settings.
• gnome-remotedesktop-toggleprompt Enable/disable Gnome Shell remote desktop prompt for security purposes.
• killapp Send KILL signal to user processes matching to a regular expression.
• mv-addmoddate Add modification date to filename and move to a target directory.
• mvln Move and link shortcut.
• parse-path A well-designed path parsing tool.
• psapp List user processes matching to a regular expression.
• strrep String find-and-replace.
• tmux-parallel-exec-at-dirs Execute one command in parallel at multiple directories within tmux panes & windows.
• tmux-parallel-exec Execute multiple commands in parallel within tmux panes & windows.

File conversion

• images2powerpoint Convert a series of images to a powerpoint presentation.
• img2canon Convert image file into a format readable by Canon printers.
• video2ipad Convert video file to iPad-compatible format (not perfect, though).
• video2mp3 Convert video file to mp3.
• video2mp4 Convert video file to mp4.
• video2tv Convert image file into a mp4 file readable by most TVs.

Zotero-related tools

• zotero-find-nonlinked-attachments Find non-linked zotero attachments using a library export.

Academic tools

• proceedings/ Scripts to download/collect some conferences' bibliographies.

Python tools

• assert-conda Verifies that the conda environment is fully active.
• conda-custom-active Activate a conda installation.
• conda-create-machine-learning-env A utility script for creating an ML-oriented conda environment with mainstream packages.

Misc notes

• How to share printer from Linux to Mac
• How to customize page color in a shared latex repository
• How to compress data folder into a multi-part archive
• Matplotlib notes
• VSCode notes