I just wanted to delete all tags set in my Applications folder on OS X and had to look up how to accomplish that in the Terminal since it a) is quite cumbersome to do it in Finder and b) it did not quite work somehow.

The last update of R’s tikzdevice (0.7.0) broke all my manually tuned graphs and now I have way too large margins, symbols and text sizes, etc. Even though this update was actually a fix to the previously broken tikzdevice (it simply needed insane amount of margins compared to the other output devices due to fishy metrics), I had workarounds in each graph which I had to fix now - again - manually.

After doing some background upgrading for my dot-files project - also called nesono-bin as there are many helper scripts in there - I though it might be good to list the new features in one list, since the features mostly creeped in over the last weeks:

A long while ago, I re-wrote the transfer stack for the shell in Python. The transfer stack is the counterpart to the directory dtack, which is known by the commands pushd, popd, and dirs. The corresponding tools of the transfer stack are pusht, popt, and transfers, all of which can be found in my github repository.

While working with unfamiliar and large svn trees I was wondering how I can get all svn externals within the source tree on the command line. As almost always, stackoverflow has the answer:

svn pg svn:externals -R

That’s it again and cheers!
iss

Today the command line audio utility sox gave me some head aches while I was working on some sample files for a listening test I prepare for my current research.

Today I fixed a problem with a bash-script I was using for quite a while now, which refused to work correctly under Mac OS X 10.5 (maybe other versions as well). The Problem was, that an sed script did not substitute, what it ought to.