Bash
A nice cheatsheet: https://devhints.io/bash
- Zip and unziptar -czf abc.tar.gz files --exclude=pattern # gz -cjf # bz2 tar -xzf abc.tar.gz -C path
- Absolute path of current filescript_dir=$(dirname $(readlink -f "$0"))
- Test if variable is set# From https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3601515/how-to-check-if-a-variable-is-set-in-bash if [ -z ${var+x} ]; then echo "var is unset"; else echo "var is set to '$var'"; fi
- Remove artifacts mis-installed by ninjaxargs rm < install_manifest.txt
Python
Read file line by line (using walrus operator)
with open(filename, 'r', encoding='UTF-8') as file:
    while (line := file.readline().rstrip()):
        print(line)
Run subprocess and get output
proc = subprocess.Popen(f"commands", shell=True,
                    stdin=subprocess.PIPE,
                    stdout=subprocess.PIPE,
                    stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
stdouts, stderrs = proc.communicate()
stdouts = stdouts.decode('utf-8')
stderrs = stderrs.decode('utf-8')