Age of git tracked file II

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Goal

Identify the last time an arbitrary line (let's say line 1) was changed for every file in the repository.

Step 1

Try and use blame to identify changes to the first line only:

$ git blame -L 1,1 -- README
^193d722 (Paul Schwendenman 2012-07-23 16:51:03 +0200 1) ======================

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Age of git tracked file

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Goal

I use a password store named pass. Pass is a command line based manager that attempts to follow the Unix philosophy (roughly tools should do one thing and do it well.) I wanted to know when the last time I updated each password in my store, so that I …

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Getting a random file from a directory

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I had a massive directory of files that I wanted to pick a few random files to test before I imported the whole set. For this post lets say I want 100 random files from some_dir and moving them to this_dir.

First you could use:

$ LIST=$(ls -1 ./some_dir | sort …
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LVM resize

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lvm / bash / sh

My root partition recently ran out of space and I needed to resize it.

So I booted into a live usb and then, after activating my volume groups:

$ sudo vgchange -a y

I looked up lvm resize online and came up with the command:

$ sudo lvextend -L+10G /dev/mapper …
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