Compare 2 directories

Compare the contets of 2 directories, while excluding some sub directories in those directories.

diff -r --exclude=.git --exclude=.nuxt --exclude=node_modules directory_one directory_two

MP3 Tagger

Use Picard - a cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database, to set MP3 metadata

https://picard.musicbrainz.org/

Compress ISO/CSO to CHD

chdman.exe createcd -i "Input.iso" -o "Output.chd"

Find chdman.exe from MAME Windows Binary - https://www.mamedev.org/release.php

Options to use with yt-dlp

Options to use with yt-dlp to download MP3 from playlist.

yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 \
--embed-metadata --embed-thumbnail \
--parse-metadata "title:%(title)s" \
--parse-metadata "artist:%(channel)s" \
-o "%(title)s.%(ext)s" playlist

Exclude Windows PATHs in WSL PATH

In WSL, add the below to /etc/wsl.conf

[interop]
appendWindowsPath = false

You'll need to restart WSL after updating the above. From cmd, run

wsl --shutdown

Linus Alias or Shortcut using Bash Function

Open ~/.bashrc and add the below function.

artisan() {
docker-compose exec php artisan "$@"
}

Reload the shell configuration.

source ~/.bashrc

Use the alias or shortcut.

artisan make

Get Code Snapshot from Specific Commit in Git

Here's how you can get code snapshot from a specific commit in Git. Let's go through the steps.

git fetch

Update the branch

git pull

Find the commit hash, eg. commit-hash

git log

Checkout the branch while creating it.

git checkout -b branch_name commit-hash