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Handy One-Liners

It’s been a while since I’ve posted, so I figured I’d just go with something that I found to have been pretty useful as of late. Peteris Krumins recently posted a great article about one-liners, so I figured I’d add a few of my own to that list:

1. Python SMTP Server

   python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025

   This just starts an email consumer on your localhost on port 1025. When emails are sent to it, they are echoed to STDOUT instead of being routed. Handy when developing features that require email.
   

2. Git Graph ‘Pretty Print’

   git log --graph --abbrev-commit --pretty=oneline --decorate

   This really just serves as a replacement to gitk or GitX in a (command-line) pinch.

3. Remove .pyc

   find . -name '*.pyc' -exec rm {} \;

   Does just what you’d think it does: removes all .pyc files from the current directory you are in.

These are all pretty much just great candidates for bash aliases, but I figured I’d share since I was inspired. Thanks Peteris, and if you haven’t checked out his article, do so IMMEDIATELY:

Top Ten One-Liners from CommandLineFu Explained

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