shell

A colleague of mine has just posted a shell script for calculating TOTP secrets. From my POV, using a Python virtual env is overkill, and I was pretty sure that you could do it with bash and a few extra utilities as well. The bash script would probably even be faster (albeit not necessarily more secure, unless you’d gotten all the quotes right). There’s a “proper” shell implementation by Rich Felker on Github, which I didn’t read before implementing a bash-non-posix solution....

I've written some useful shell scripts during my time with Linux (which is coming up on 20 years now). I'm posting them here as a) a reminder to myself and b) because they might be useful for other people. In contrast to Stupid ZSH tricks, these are written in Bash to work more universally. ...