I'm keeping shared scripts in bin_common, so I can reserve ~/bin for machine-specific scripts (similar to why I have ~/.zshrc_common and ~/.zshrc).

Add ~/bin_common to the$PATH manually.

Assumes zsh is the current shell and /bin_common is symlinked to ~/bin_common:

cat >> "$HOME/.zshrc" << 'EOF'

# See https://github.com/bbkane/dotfiles
export PATH="$HOME/bin_common:$PATH"
EOF

As of 2026-04-13. See the comments or -h/--help in each script for more details

• blog.py - Create a blog post for www.bbkane.com

• check_sync_log.py - Check the log for rclone sync --dry-run --combined

• color_exceptions.py - highlight exceptions in log files

• copy_as_rtf.py - Copy CSV file as rich text

• dashcam_audio.py - Extract and concatenate audio from dashcam video files

• date_range.pl - Print a date range

• diff_strings.py - Diff two strings with colored output

• docx-dir-to-md-dir.sh - Recursively convert .docx files to .md using pandoc

• easyssl.py - Generate and run/print the small subset of openssl commands I care about

• envwarden.py - Exports environmental variables from a TOML config file and the system Key Chain

• format_dict.py - Format Python dict from stdin as pretty-printed JSON

• format_f-string.py - read stdin formatted as a Python f-string and format with key-value pairs passed as args

• format_json.py - Format JSON files, printing to stdout or editing in place with -i

• format_jsonl.py - Read stdin and pretty-print JSON lines

• format_shell_cmd.py - Read a line from stdin and format as a BASH Command

• format_url.py - Format URL from stdin with url-encoding

• gdoc_image_from_clipboard.sh - Extract a base64 image from a Google Docs HTML clipboard entry and save to a file

• git-lines-changed-tsv - Print lines changed over time for a git repo

• git-merged-branches - List branches that can be deleted because they've been merged via PR

• git-tagit - Print git status and current last 10 git tags, then prompt for a new git tag and push

• imgcat - Display images inline in the iTerm2 using Inline Images Protocol

• json_to_yaml.sh - Read JSON file by path and print as YAML to stdout

• jsonl_to_csv.py - Normalize a newline delimited JSON log by adding any missing keys with null values

• open_tmp_html.py - Write html input to a tmpfile, then open in a browser

• reply_to_recruiters.py - Reply to recruiters

• scatterplot.py - Create interactive HTML scatter/line plots!

• tokei_projects.sh - Count lines of code across personal Go projects using tokei

• yaml_to_json.sh - Read YAML file by path and print as JSON to stdout