cli on Aldrin Jenson

Clone any website locally with HTTrack

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 12:00:00 -0400

brew install httrack

httrack <website_url>

Source: https://hackzism.blogspot.com/2020/06/clone-websites-using-httrack.html

Drag and drop files from the macOS terminal

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 12:00:00 -0400

Use this cool tool:

https://github.com/Wevah/dragterm

Steps to install:

git clone the above repo
cd dragterm
brew install cocoapods
g++ DTDraggingSourceView.m main.m -framework Cocoa -o drag
Add the folder to PATH

export PATH="<your drag term folder path>:$PATH"

Usage:

drag <filename>

Bonus

If you are using ranger or some other CLI based file manager, you can easily add support to dragging from terminal using dragterm with a key-map as follows:

map <C-d> shell drag %p

Paste the above to .config/ranger/rc.conf to map ctrl+d to drag a file from ranger

Compressing images from the CLI

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:00:00 -0400

Steps

Move all your image files to a folder
calculate it’s folder size using du
create a copy of the folder.
install imagemagick

brew install imagemagick

in this folder, perform the following actions:

mkdir compressed
for i in *; do convert $i -resize 40% compressed/$i; done;

The above will compress all images by making the size 40% of the initial size and will move it to a folder called compressed

Check folder structure again using du
if it’s still too much, repeat again but this time reduce quality to even lower