Feature Creep 2026, 37 - Some Bash Scripting

I don't really mind writing the commands by hand, but it could always be shorter. I don't really gain anything from doing it per hand, so might as well write some bash. Basically, I want to write a script that deletes all files with a given extension. That is relatively straight forward and not a lot of code, so let's get it over with

find . -type f -name '*.png' -delete

I would usually do this with rm, but I apparently find has a -delete flag.

That is the easier part of this week's programme. Because I develop on several machines, I want to automate the git stuff as far as I can as well. That is best done by two steps:

1. Have the machine read my git credentials from a file
2. Build a bash script that iterates through all directories in the space I have my git projects in.

The first one is a very solved problem, because people seem to generally want to avoid entering passwords. It's solved so thoroughly, that the git command line has a flag for it, namely:

git config --global credential.helper store

If that is set true, then git will remember the credentials for a pretty second. The other part is also relatively straight-forward

for dir in . 
do
    cd ${dir%*/}
    git stash
    git pull
    git stash pop
    git commit
    git push
    cd ..
done