note: how to send email

chat/send_email.md

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+---
+title: Send an email with a CLI command
+tags: 
+- email
+requires:
+- data/pass.md
+---
+
+# Setup the Config
+
+Install `msmtp` and set up the defaults.
+
+```sh
+mkdir ~/.config/msmtp/
+cat > ~/.config/msmtp/config << EOF
+defaults
+tls on
+auth on
+
+EOF
+```
+
+You'll need to fill in some variables, like your provider's hostname and SMTP port.
+The `${pass_name}` is just the `pass` command which gives your email password.
+
+```sh
+name=posteo
+host=posteo.de
+port=587
+user=bob@posteo.net
+pass_name=posteo.net
+```
+
+With those in, add that default account.
+
+
+```sh
+cat >> ~/.config/msmtp/config << EOF
+
+account ${name}
+host ${host}
+port ${port}
+user ${user}
+from ${user}
+passwordeval pass ${pass_name}
+
+```
+
+Finally, set this as the default account:
+
+
+```sh
+account default : ${account} >> ~/.config/msmtp/config
+```
+
+# Write an Email
+
+Fill out the headers in a file called `mail`.
+
+```
+From: MSMTP ${user}
+Subject: Pipes
+To: ${recipient_name} <${recipient_email}>
+
+A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his
+mouth.
+```
+
+# Send
+
+Send the email:
+
+```sh
+msmtp -t bindrpg@posteo.uk < mail
+```
+

command.rec

@@ -10,27 +10,27 @@ shell: sh
 bin: column
 tag: format
 
-aim: Reformat file with an explicit separator (`-s`)
+aim: Reformat user accounts with an explicit separator (`-s`)
 cmd: column -ts: /etc/passwd
 shell: sh
 bin: column
 tag: format
 
-aim: Sort lines into columns with names
+aim: Sort user accounts into columns with names
 cmd: column -ts: -N User,PW,UID,GID,Description,Home,shell -H PW,GID /etc/passwd
 note: Hide some columns with `-H`.
 shell: sh
 bin: column
 tag: format
 
-aim: Sort lines into columns and reorder them
+aim: Sort user accounts into columns and reorder them
 cmd: column -ts: -N User,PW,UID,GID,Description,Home,shell -H PW,GID -O User,Description,shell /etc/passwd 
 note: Unspecified items remain.
 shell: sh
 bin: column
 tag: format
 
-aim: Output to json format with `-J`
+aim: Output user accounts in json format with `-J`
 cmd: column -J -ts: -H PW,GID,shell -N User,PW,UID,GID,Description,Home,shell /etc/passwd
 shell: sh
 bin: column
@@ -429,6 +429,13 @@ cmd: urldecode() { echo -e "${@//%/\\x}"; }
 tag: web
 shell: bash
 
+aim: Choose which parts to commit with git
+cmd: git commit -p
+note: Use `P` to see big changes which cannot fit on the screen.
+tag: comfy
+bin: git
+shell: sh
+
 aim: Request a definition from the terminal.
 cmd: word='abderian'
 + curl -s dict://dict.org/define:${word}:

example.rec

@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ content: # This data file was generated by the Spreadsheet Calculator Improvised
 
 filename: lowdown.mk
 bin: make
-usage: {{bin}} -f {{filename}}
+usage: {{bin}} -f {{filename}} example
 content: output: all
 + 
 + .PHONY: example

shell/bash_tips.md

@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+---
+title: Bash tips
+tags: 
+- shell
+- comfy
+- bash
+---
+
+# This & That
+
+Refer to 'that last thing', and 'the first thing':
+
+```sh
+fortune -l > file1
+cat !$  | tr -d u > file2
+cat file1 !$
+diff !^ !$
+```
+
+**NB:** this can go wrong:
+
+```sh
+ls -l file1 file2
+cat !^
+```
+
+**NB:** this only works when running `bash` interactively, never in scripts.
+
+# Lists
+
+You can put a list inside any `bash` argument, and `bash` will expand that part into a new argument.
+
+```bash
+echo file {one,two,three}.txt
+echo file-{one,two,three}.txt
+touch !$
+```
+
+Look at text files:
+
+```bash
+ls *.{txt,md}
+```
+
+Look at size of jpg or png files in the `img/` directory:
+
+
+```bash
+du img/*.{jpg,png}
+```
+
+# Automatic Lists
+
+```bash
+echo {a..d}
+echo Archive_{B..E}
+```
+
+Using multiple lists works fine.
+
+```bash
+mkdir first second third
+echo {first,second,third}/file_{1..3}.txt
+x={first,second,third}/file_{1..3}.txt
+echo $x
+echo {first,second,third}/file_{1..3}.txt
+x="$(!!)"
+echo $x
+for file in $x ; do fortune > $file ; done
+```

shell/shell_tips.md

@@ -5,25 +5,6 @@ tags:
 - comfy
 ---
 
-# This & That
-
-Refer to 'that last thing', and 'the first thing':
-
-```sh
-fortune -l > file1
-cat !$  | tr -d u
-diff !^ !$
-```
-
-**NB:** this can go wrong:
-
-```sh
-ls -l file1 file2
-cat !^
-```
-
-**NB:** this only works when running `bash` interactively, never in scripts.
-
 # Done
 
 `<C-d>`

system/editors.md

@@ -1,25 +1,25 @@
 ---
-title: $EDITOR
+title: Setting an EDITOR
 tags: 
 - system
+- defaults
 ---
-The System's default text editor can be defined within /etc/profile.  It's given the variable `EDITOR`.
 
-Add these lines to `/etc/profile.d/custom.sh`:
+Programs expect a default 'line EDITOR' and 'VISUAL editor' so they know how you want to edit text.
+
+Add these lines to automatically set the variables in `bash`:
 
 ```sh
-echo 'export EDITOR=vim' >> /etc/profile.d/custom.sh
+echo 'export EDITOR=vim' >> ~/.bashrc
-echo 'export VISUAL=$EDITOR' >> /etc/profile.d/custom.sh
+echo 'export VISUAL=$EDITOR' >> ~/.bashrc
 ```
 
-Then reload that profile with:
+Make the change system-wide by adding them to `/etc/profile.d/custom.sh` instead, which is loaded at startup.
+
+You can add a GUI editor as the `$VISUAL` editor:
 
 ```sh
-source /etc/profile
+VISUAL=gedit
 ```
 
-If you want to ensure `nano` never appears again:
+To use a true line editor, as `$EDITOR`, see [ed][writing/ed.md].
-
-```sh
-sudo ln -sf $(which vim) $(which nano)
-```

writing/ed.md

@@ -3,8 +3,13 @@ title: Ed: The Standard Editor
 tags: 
 - writing
 - guide
+- sed
+- vim
 ---
 
+Understanding `ed` will let you understand all that feels strange about the system.
+It set the standards for `sed` and `vi`.
+
 `ed` was designed for real terminals, i.e. a typewriter.
 You would type a command to the computer, and it would type out any errors.
 It would not waste paper, ink, and time by typing out `COMMAND RUN SUCCESSFULLY` after each command.
@@ -12,7 +17,6 @@ A silent machine meant a happy machine.
 
 To fully appreciate `ed`, you can slow down your terminal with the following command:
 
-
 ```sh
 ff=/tmp/bashpipe
 mkfifo $ff
@@ -24,7 +28,6 @@ Try running `dir` and `dir -F`!
 
 Okay, now onto `ed`...
 
-
 # Basic Usage
 
 Open a file:
@@ -67,11 +70,8 @@ Delete the current line:
 d
 ```
 
-
-
 Write the 'buffer' to disk:
 
-
 ```ed
 w
 ```
@@ -86,7 +86,6 @@ q
 
 Open that file:
 
-
 ```ed
 ed file.md
 ```