Coding adventures

 See  rebase - Squash my last X commits together using Git - Stack Overflow git rebase -i <after-this-commit> <after-this-commit>  is commit X+1 i.e. parent of the oldest commit you want to squash. This brings up the editor Choose "pick" on the second commit Choose "squash" on the subsequent commits

  magick flowchart.jpg -strip -interlace Plane -gaussian-blur 0.05 -quality 85% result.jpg See  image processing - Recommendation for compressing JPG files with ImageMagick - Stack Overflow

  Batch file - read file into variable @echo OFF rem Has about 1024 character buffer limit rem See: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3068929/how-to-read-file-contents-into-a-variable-in-a-batch-file echo Hello File > file.txt set /p ReadBack=<file.txt echo Text is %Readback% Outputs:  Text is: Hello File

 Batch file: Enable delayed expansion From:  EnableDelayedExpansion - Windows CMD - SS64.com EnableDelayedExpansion Delayed Expansion will cause variables within a batch file to be expanded at execution time rather than at parse time , this option is turned on with the  SETLOCAL  EnableDelayedExpansion  command.

  Getting absolute path of current script in Python from pathlib import Path script_path = Path ( __file__ ) . resolve ( ) . parent print ( f"Script path is { script_path } " )