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Here's two examples of running command line stuff on iOS via Apple Shortcuts and a-Shell.
One shows the uptime of my phone, the other runs a Python script and shows the output.
#iOS #apple #python

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If you're using #gnupg with a keyserver for "gpg --refresh-keys" and you're running into the bug of getting aborted with "No data", this script is a good workaround for updating your keys of a single email domain using a (organization) key server:

I added enough Linux support to picolibc to run lua; the lua test suite found a number of core picolibc bugs. This whole adventure suddenly turns out to have actual value and not just comic relief.
I now have a shell script that adapts gcc to using picolibc and have built a small number of applications including snek, nickle and lua.
exec cc -static --specs=picolibc.specs "$@"

Fixes for oslib/linux usage by keith-packard · Pull Request #1184 · picolibc/picolibc
Remove fatal meson warnings from the new scripts. Pre-1.10 meson fix. Add picolibc_linux.ld

Another day of dealing with the headache caused by Unixy text processing tools, close to writing a custom one for my purpose instead of chaining up a pipeline of... 4? 5?
curl, csplit, head, sed... aaaah...
Wrapping it all in a Makefile turned out to be hard yet again, so part of it is delegated to a shell script.

GNU Parallel is such a nice program. It has a bunch of features that, sure, you could cobble together with a program or shell script, but that with Parallel are just a flag away.
Like, “read 1MB chunks from stdin, adjust chunk boundaries so they always start with a specified delimiter, then run N copies of this command where each copy gets a subset of chunks on stdin”.
It’s just --pipe --round-robin --recstart 'some delimiter'.
Last night I used this to search a Li…

i don't remember pip complaining this much about virtual environments and running as root and whatnot. i'm trying to run a shell script piss off

I don't send many emails anymore. I receive emails but I don't send many. Even at work, most of our communication is done via other means. But I do generate at least one email a day to send to a group of external testers. I don't send this from a traditional mail client. Instead it is a shell script that gathers some information and opens a text editor to add further comments. After that the file is sent with