Code snippets

You will find here 17 code snippets I find useful so I don't have to Google ™ or Stackoverflow ™ them when I need. There are also code snippets I always forget! 😁 Sometimes, related links to the code will be available. The main difference with other random snippets you will find on the web is that in most cases (for the Symfony related ones) you will be able to run them directly from this website to check the output so you can verify it works as expected ™.

This snippet shows how to prevent duplicates in bash history. Note that it is automatically done when using Fishshell. ...

bash

Published on 2024-04-27 • Modified on 2024-04-27

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This snippet shows how to display the status code of the last executed command in the terminal. It can be helpful in shell scripts...

terminal

Published on 2023-10-21 • Modified on 2023-10-21

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This snippet shows an example of a simple and clean prompt for the fish shell. I first saw this snippet on the blog of Gerald Kasz...

fish

Published on 2023-09-06 • Modified on 2023-09-06

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This snippet shows how to execute a given Make target inside a target. When you want to run a target before another, you can put a...

make

Published on 2023-03-15 • Modified on 2023-03-15

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This snippet shows what permissions we must use for a private SSH key. This is the kind of thing I always forget! So, let's have ...

Linux

Published on 2022-07-26 • Modified on 2022-07-26

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This snippet shows how to compare two DateInterval objects. We can't directly use the spaceship operator on DateInterval objects o...

PHP

Published on 2022-07-13 • Modified on 2022-07-13

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This snippet shows how to get the properties' original values of a Doctrine entity after an update. One learns every day, I have u...

Doctrine

Published on 2022-01-25 • Modified on 2022-01-25

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In this snippet, we see how to reinitialize a Doctrine entity after a modification. The trick is to use the refresh() function of ...

Doctrine

Published on 2022-01-06 • Modified on 2022-01-06

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In this snippet, we see how to get the columns count of the terminal. The two following commands produce the same result. In the f...

terminal

Published on 2021-12-21 • Modified on 2021-12-21

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In this snippet, we see how to replace text in a file with SED on macOS. Sometimes Unix commands do not behave exactly as they wou...

mac

Published on 2021-07-14 • Modified on 2021-07-14

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