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maven + growlnotify for notification when your build finishes

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Reading time: 1 – 2 minutes

Working on os x with Spaces means I want to read something on another space instead of waiting idly for a 50 second build. But, I don’t want to get distracted. So, I use Growl and growlnotify for notifications of the build’s completion.

#!/bin/sh
# this file is called: mvn (and is executable, and added to path before actual mvn command)

# capture all args passed in to forward to real mvn
ARGS=$*

# We need the client's specific settings.xml, so always specify it now
/usr/bin/mvn -s /Volumes/TrueCryptClient/opt/maven/conf/settings.xml $ARGS 

# when you have growlnotify installed and on your path, this will pop it up
# when the build is done
growlnotify -m "DONE: maven $ARGS"

Note: if you get this error from growlnotify: could not find local GrowlApplicationBridgePathway, falling back to NSDNC, it probably means growl is not started. Start up growl in your System Preferences.

Update: Thanks Cosmin, for the enhancement. Use this snipped in the script. Have an environmental variable for what the notify command is. And say what the build status is in the growl notify.:

if [[ -n $NOTIFY ]]; then
    ($command && $NOTIFY "Build Complete" && exit 0) || ($NOTIFY "Build Failed" && exit 127)
else
    $command
fi

Written by Jonathan

December 31st, 2009 at 1:23 pm

Posted in automation, code, mac

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How to do 3-way merges with Subversion and Kdiff3

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Reading time: 4 – 7 minutes

I do not endorse branch based development. I prefer trunk based development. Specifically I like what my colleague Paul calls Branch By Abstraction, coined by Stacy Curl, and recently mentioned by Martin Fowler (All one time ThoughtWorkers, and 2 currently).

If you’re stuck with merging though, 3-way merges make it much easier. Doing it with subversion is easy. Instructions are for Linux.

  1. apt-get or yum install kdiff3.
  2. Edit your /etc/subversion/config and fin the line with diff3-cmd, set it to: diff3-cmd=/usr/local/bin/svndiff.sh
  3. Next, create the file /usr/local/bin/svndiff.sh. See below for the script you’ll want to enter in it.

Now when you get a merge conflict you will choose M and merge will open in kdiff3. On the left is the base revision, in the middle is your working copy, and on the right the incoming change. This is a little more to look at, but it is invaluable when dealing with merges. I wouldn’t go back to 2 way diff ever again.

#!/bin/bash
 
# NOTE: I DO NOT SUPPORT BRANCH BASED DEVELOPMENT, but sometimes you're stuck with it.
 
# tim/paul: this is a copy of the file located at <a href="http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/src/svndiffwrapper.txt">http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/src/svndiffwrapper.txt</a>
 
# modified to do a non-conflicting merge automatically. see #HERE#
# INSTALLATION:
# 1) Place this file in /usr/local/bin
# 2) Add to /etc/subversion/config a line: diff3-cmd=/usr/local/bin/svndiff.sh
# Then, svn should use this script, which will use kdiff3 to do three way merging.
 
# Return an errorcode of 0 on successful merge, 1 if unresolved conflicts
# remain in the result. Any other errorcode will be treated as fatal.
# Author: Michael Bradley
 
#NOTE: all output must be redirected to stderr with "1&gt;&amp;2" as all stdout output is written to the output file
 
VDIFF3="kdiff3"
DIFF3="diff3"
DIFF="kdiff3"
 
promptUser ()
{
    read answer
    case "${answer}" in
 
        "M" )
        echo "" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo "Attempting to merge ${baseFileName} with ${DIFF}" 1&gt;&amp;2
        $VDIFF3 $older $mine $theirs  L1 $labelOlder  L2 $labelMine  L3 $labelTheirs -o $output 1&gt;&amp;2
        bLoop=1
        if [ -f $output ]; then
if [ -s $output ]; then
                #output succesfully written
                bLoop=0
            fi
fi
if [ $bLoop = 0 ]; then
cat $output
            rm -f $output
            exit 0
        else
echo "Merge failed, try again" 1&gt;&amp;2
        fi
 
        ;;
 
        "m" )
        echo "" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo "Attempting to auto-merge ${baseFileName}" 1&gt;&amp;2
        diff3 -L $labelMine -L $labelOlder -L $labelTheirs -Em $mine $older $theirs &gt; $output
        if [ $? = 1 ]; then
            #Can't auto merge
            rm -f $output
            $VDIFF3 $older $mine $theirs  L1 $labelOlder  L2 $labelMine  L3 $labelTheirs -o $output  auto 1&gt;&amp;2
            bLoop=1
            if [ -f $output ]; then
if [ -s $output ]; then
                    #output succesfully written
                    bLoop=0
                fi
fi
if [ $bLoop = 0 ]; then
cat $output
                rm -f $output
                exit 0
            else
echo "Merge failed, try again" 1&gt;&amp;2
            fi
else
            #We can automerge, and we already did it
            cat $output
            rm -f $output
            exit 0
        fi
        ;;
 
        "diff3" | "Diff3" | "DIFF3" )
        echo "" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo "Diffing..." 1&gt;&amp;2
        $VDIFF3 $older $mine $theirs  L1 $labelOlder  L2 $labelMine  L3 $labelTheirs 1&gt;&amp;2
        ;;
 
        "diff" | "Diff" | "DIFF" )
        echo "" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo "Diffing..." 1&gt;&amp;2
        $DIFF $mine $theirs -L $labelMine -L $labelTheirs 1&gt;&amp;2
        ;;
 
        "A" | "a" )
        echo "" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo "Accepting remote version of file..." 1&gt;&amp;2
        cat ${theirs}
        exit 0
        ;;
 
        "I" | "i" )
        echo "" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo "Keeping local modifications..." 1&gt;&amp;2
        cat ${mine}
        exit 0
        ;;
 
        "R" | "r" )
        echo "" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo "Reverting to base..." 1&gt;&amp;2
        cat ${older}
        exit 0
        ;;
 
        "D" | "d" )
        echo "" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo "Runnig diff3..." 1&gt;&amp;2
        diff3 -L $labelMine -L $labelOlder -L $labelTheirs -Em $mine $older $theirs
        #Exit with return vaule of the diff3 (to write out files if necessary)
        exit $?
        ;;
 
        "S" | "s" )
        echo "" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo "Saving for later..." 1&gt;&amp;2
        cat ${mine}
        #Exit with return vaule of 1 to force writting of files
        exit 1
        ;;
 
        "Fail" | "fail" | "FAIL" )
        echo "" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo "Failing..." 1&gt;&amp;2
        exit 2
        ;;
 
        "H" | "h" )
        echo "" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo "USAGE OPTIONS:" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo " [A]ccept Accept $labelTheirs and throw out local modifications" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo " [D]efault Use diff3 to merge files (same behavior as vanilla SVN)" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo " [Fail] Kills the command (not suggested)" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo " [H]elp Print this message" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo " [I]gnore Keep your locally modified version as is" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo " [M]erge Manually merge using ${VDIFF3}" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo " [m]erge Same as "M" but attempts to automerge if possible" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo " [R]evert Revert to base version (${labelOlder})" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo " [S]ave Same as 'I' but writes out rold, rnew, and rmine files to deal with later" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo " [diff] Type 'diff' to diff versions $labelMine and $labelTheirsthe before making a descision" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo " [diff3] Type 'diff3' to diff all three versions before making a descision" 1&gt;&amp;2
        echo "" 1&gt;&amp;2
        ;;
 
        * )
        echo "'${answer}' is not an option, try again." 1&gt;&amp;2
        ;;
    esac
}
 
if [ -z $2 ]
then
echo ERROR: This script expects to be called by subversion
    exit 1
fi
 
if [ $2 = "-m" ]
then
    #Setup vars
    labelMine=${4}
    labelOlder=${6}
    labelTheirs=${8}
    mine=${9}
    older=${10}
    theirs=${11}
    output=${9}.svnDiff3TempOutput
    baseFileName=`echo $mine | sed -e "s/.tmp$//"`
 
#HERE#
    diff3 -L $labelMine -L $labelOlder -L $labelTheirs -Em $mine $older $theirs &gt; $output
    if [ $? = 1 ]; then
        #Can't auto merge
        #Prompt user for direction
        while [ 1 ]
        do
echo "" 1&gt;&amp;2
            echo "${baseFileName} requires merging." 1&gt;&amp;2
            echo "" 1&gt;&amp;2
            echo "What would you like to do?" 1&gt;&amp;2
            echo "[M]erge [A]ccept [I]gnore [R]evert [D]efault [H]elp" 1&gt;&amp;2
            promptUser
        done
else
        #We can automerge, and we already did it
        cat $output
        rm -f $output
        exit 0
    fi
else
L="-L" #Argument option for left label
    R="-L" #Argument option for right label
    label1=$3 #Left label
    label2=$5 #Right label
    file1=$6 #Left file
    file2=$7 #Right file
 
    $DIFF $file1 $file2 $L "$label1" $L "$label2" &amp;
    #$DIFF $file1 $file2 &amp;
    #wait for the command to finish
    wait
fi
exit 0

Note: I also posted this to a gist on github: svndiff.sh.

Written by Jonathan

September 17th, 2009 at 8:49 pm

Posted in automation, code

Ruby Script to Organize Mp3’s based on ID3 Genre Tag

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Reading time: 2 – 4 minutes

I had one gigantic directory of all my tagged and organized mp3 files. Problem is it was too big to use. This bloated my library and I have since not been able to fit my music on my laptop. I needed to manipulate mp3 files by genre and extract them out of this single directory to create smaller libraries. I spent all of about two minutes looking for a program to do this before deciding to write a script. Truthfully, it was worse: once upon a time I over-enthusiastically downloaded StepMania and 493 DDR games/songs. And then, I added all the songs into my music library. It’s a great party game, but not the kind of music I want to listen to.

Many implementations exist for reading ID3 tags. I first tried ruby-mp3info, however it didn’t read my custom genre (‘DDR’) so then I moved to id3lib-ruby which uses the c++ id3lib library.

This worked like a charm. I ran the script over all my directories and built up a list of the directories.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
# find_music.sh
require "rubygems"
require 'id3lib'
require 'find'
require 'set'
 
ddr_files = []
ddr_dirs = Set.new
 
search_dir = '~/media/music/music_categorized'
 
Find.find(search_dir) do |file|
  next if file !~ /.*mp3$/
  mp3 = ID3Lib::Tag.new(file)
  next if mp3.genre != 'DDR'
  ddr_dirs << File.dirname(file)
  ddr_files << file   puts "%s, %s --> AT: %s" % [mp3.genre, mp3.album, file]
end
 
File.open('result-ddr-files.txt', 'w') do |f|
  f.write(ddr_files.join("\n"))
end
 
File.open('result-ddr-dirs.txt', 'w') do |f|
  ddr_dirs.each { |d| f.write("%s\n" % d)}
end

Next I reviewed the two output files, then ran the file result-ddr-dirs.txt in as an argument into this next script. That removed almost a gig of music from my library.

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
 
if (ARGV.length != 1)
  puts "Usage: #{__FILE__} input_file"
  exit(1)
end
 
destination="/home/jwolter/media/music/music_ddr_questionable_value/"
 
File.foreach(ARGV[0]) do |line|
  next if line.strip == ""
  cmd =  "mv \"#{line.strip}\" \"#{destination}\""
  #puts cmd
  `#{cmd}`
end

Bonus: In the process searching for this, I ran into the ID3 Tags RubyQuiz.

One of the nicest benefits of being a software engineer is I avoid doing boring manual tasks on my computer. Writing a script is more fun, and faster. I’ve got many scripts to automate file manipulation, online banking, and more. What bit of your automation scripts do you think is the most helpful?

Written by Jonathan

September 5th, 2009 at 7:06 pm

Posted in automation, music

Merging pdf’s on Mac OS X from a non-duplex scanner

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Reading time: 2 – 3 minutes

Goal: scan in hundreds of duplex documents in a non-duplex scanner and combine into 1 pdf in automated way. Status: it was harder than it should have been, and not that automated, but this works.

Scan in the papers as pdf’s from your paper-feed equipped scanner. Scan them right side up, then flip over and scan the other sides. The two pdf’s will contain pages: 1, 3, 5… and 2, 4, 6…

Reverse the even pages.

#!/usr/bin/ruby
 
if __FILE__ == $0
  puts "Run this on ubuntu or somewhere that pdftk is easy to be had. (which isn't os x)"
 
  if ARGV.length != 1
    puts "Syntax: #{__FILE__} pdf_to_reverse.pdf"
    exit
  end
 
  pdf = ARGV[0]
  reversed_pdf = pdf.gsub(/\.pdf/i, "_reversed.pdf")
 
  page_count = `pdfinfo #{pdf} | grep Pages`.scan(/\d+/)
 
  `pdftk #{pdf} cat #{page_count}-#{1} output #{reversed_pdf}`
end

Lastly, combine the two pdf’s, shuffling every other page, starting with the odds. Note it has some dependencies on pdftk and pdfinfo for the reversing (which are excruciatingly difficult to install on os x), and os x (for the merging).

#!/usr/bin/ruby
 
if __FILE__ == $0
  puts "Run this on os x to shuffle two pdf's, where the
        even pages are already reversed (reverse them with other script)"
 
  if ARGV.length != 3
    puts "Syntax: #{__FILE__} odds.pdf reversed_evens.pdf output.pdf"
    exit
  end
 
  odds_pdf = ARGV[0]
  reversed_evens_pdf = ARGV[1]
  output_pdf = ARGV[2]
 
  # obviously, only works on os x.  I didn't see an easy way to combine pdf's
  # in pdftk or other tools I searched for
  `python '/System/Library/Automator/Combine PDF Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py' --output '#{output_pdf}' --shuffle '#{odds_pdf}' '#{reversed_evens_pdf}'`
end

References:

  • pdftk – pdf toolkit, I could have installed with ports install pdftk, but that has a very long build dependency on gcj.
  • Another technique which would work if you didn’t need to reverse pages, using automator. And without automator (like I do with a script directly).

Written by Jonathan

August 5th, 2009 at 8:41 am

Posted in automation