mybin

this is a collection of random scripts that I have written and put on my path to save time or do cool things.

It is assumed that if you want to run any of these scripts that you will stick them somewhere that is on your system's path.

pyv

This is a small python script to get the version of a python module. It was inspired both by me wrestling to find version numbers for various modules and by this StackOverflow answer that showed me how.

To run: pyv [-v] name

Example 1: pyv lxml -> `3.0.2``

Example 2: pyv -v lxml -> lxml 3.0.2 (/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages)

Example 3: pyv not_a_module -> No distribution named not_a_module

jekyll-post

This is a python script that creates and initializes a Jekyll post file. This eliminates the need to remember all the yaml options that need to go into a Jekyll post when most of them are pretty standard in the first place. Once I got to having 4 or 5 yaml options, I figured I would create this to save time on starting a new post.

To run: jekyll-post [-D Dir] [-d date] [-w] title

title - the title of the post wrapped in quotes
-D/--Dir - specify the directory (absolute or relative) in which the new file should be written
-d/--date - specify a date in the format YYYY-MM-DD or leave out to default to today's date
-t/--tags - specify a set of tags for the past separated by spaces with the whole thing wrapped in quotes
-w - this flag signals to open the new file in an editor (default is vi)

The title option in the yaml will be initialized to the given title.

The default file extension is md which is markdown.

The rest of the yaml options will be initialized as specified in the script. If you need different yaml options, just modify the portion of the script where these lines are written to the file.

Example 1: jekyll-post "First Jekyll Post" which will generate a file in the current directory with a name like 2013-01-01-First-Jekyll-Post.md.

Example 2: jekyll-post -D _posts "How to Shotgun a Beer" which will generate a file in the _posts directory (relative to the current directory) with a name like 2013-01-01-How-to-Shotgun-a-Beer.md.

Example 3: jekyll-post -d 2012-12-31 "Happy New Year" will generate a file in the current directory with the name 2012-12-31-Happy-New-Year.md.

autotex

This script can be run in the background for a LaTeX project to auto-compile the tex files to PDF whenever they are modified. The initial implementation is a bit hacked together because of some issues working with the Watchdog script, but it gets the job done.

To run: autotex main

main - the main tex file that needs to be called with pdflatex
-d/-dir - specify the directory in which the LaTeX project resides
--debug - this flag turns on all the print statements so that you can see what is being monitored

Example 1: autotex paper.tex which will start the Watchdog-powered script to start monitoring the directory where that tex file is located.

Example 2: autotex -d /Users/jbranchaud/papers/paper1 paper.tex which will start the Watchdog monitoring on the specified directory and use paper.tex as the main file.

Issue: when there is a LaTeX compilation error, you won't get any sort of warning. This is rather unhelpful and makes it difficult to figure out what is going on. Need to come up with a way to get around this.

licenseme

This python script is to be run from inside a project to generate a file called README that contains license information. Currently, only the MIT license is supported, but other open source licenses will be supported soon. The persons name and the copyright year need to be hardcoded in the existing template LICENSE file for now. Options for specifying this info as well as a config file will be added soon.

To run: licenseme [-n Name]