Command line

Useful bits.

iTerm 2

• I’ve set right option to act as Meta; this allows me to still use left option for diacritics.

Miscellaneous

• date -Iseconds creates an ISO 8601 timestamp with seconds; e.g. pbpaste > "SubscriberNetworkConnectivityTests-Logs/tests-$(date -Iseconds).txt"
• Base64 to hex: base64 -d | xxd -ps -c0

tmux

• tmux save-buffer foo.txt saves the tmux “clipboard” to a file

Git

• You can use -w in git show etc to ignore whitespace — this really helps with changes that have huge amounts of indentation changes
• To set origin/HEAD: git remote set-head origin -a
• cherry-pick a whole pull request with git cherry-pick -m1 0064f74f473d4af3b5f51cfda9b697d2e8cba15f

PDFs

• To view a PDF’s metadata: exiftool -a foo.pdf