Ubuntu: Allow Automatic Updates for Specific Packages Only

If you want to allow Google products and packages to update automatically, follow this guide.

You can also add additional sources that should update automatically following the same process.

This is helpful when using Selenium, WebDriver for Chrome, and Python.  Doing this allows you to always use the most up-to-date version of all of these dependent packages.

Tested in Ubuntu 20.04

MongoDB Helpful Scripts & Commands

Restoring BSON Backups

The below batch script helps you extract all .gz zipped BSON MongoDB table backup files and then restore these tables to a particular Mongo database easily:

@ECHO ON
SET SourceDir=%~dp0
cd %SourceDir%
mkdir "extracted"
mkdir "extracted\json"
FOR /R %SourceDir% %%A IN ("*.gz") DO "C:\Program Files\7-Zip\7z.exe" x "%%~A" -o"%SourceDir%\extracted"
mongorestore -d {DATABASE_NAME_TO_RESTORE_TABLES_INTO} --host localhost:27017 "extracted"

Converting MongoDB Tables and Data to Proper JSON

If you want to convert MongoDB tables and their data into JSON, you can use the below commands:

mongoexport -d {DATABASE_TO_EXPORT_FROM} --host localhost:27017 -c {TABLE_NAME_TO_EXPORT_CONVERT_INTO_JSON} --jsonArray --pretty -o "%SourceDir%\extracted\json\{TABLE_NAME_BEING_CONVERTED_TO_JSON_NAME}.json"

With older versions of MongoDB, the json file export doesn't actually contain valid JSON. To fix the $date and $numberLong properties which are invalid according to JSON specifications, you can run the below Python 2.7 script:

######################################
# About                              #
######################################

# Author:   Eric Arnol-Martin https://eamster.tk
# Purpose:  Replaces Mongo's Exported DateTime Format with Proper DateTime String Representations for Easier Import for Other Databases / Programming Languages
# Expects:  Mongo JSON Exported Pretty File.  
#			For example, a file produced by a command similar to 
#			"mongoexport -d {db_name} --host localhost:27017 -c {table_name} --jsonArray --pretty -o {table_name}.json"
# Tests:    RegEx Test Link:  https://regexr.com/68l7r
# Outputs:  Creates a copy of the input JSON file with DateTime objects replaced with their proper string representation in the same directory as the original file 
#			with the same file name suffixed with "_NEW" at the end of it.
# Sources:  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2503413/regular-expression-to-stop-at-first-match
#			https://stackoverflow.com/questions/159118/how-do-i-match-any-character-across-multiple-lines-in-a-regular-expression

######################################
# Imports                            #
######################################

import re
from os.path import exists
import fileinput


######################################
# Actual Program                     #
######################################

path = input ("Enter path or name of file to parse: ")
prevPiece = None
content_new = ""
boolReplaceFromNextLine = False
boolHandlingLong = False

if exists(path):
	# Clear new file
	b = open(path + "_NEW", "w+")
	b.close()
	count = 0
	recordCount = 0

	for line in fileinput.input(files=path):
		count = count + 1
		if '"$date":' in line: 
			content_new = content_new[0:content_new.rindex('{')] + line.replace('"$date": {', '').replace('"$date":', '').replace('\n', '').strip();
			boolReplaceFromNextLine = True
		else:
			if boolReplaceFromNextLine:
				if '"$numberLong":' in line:
					content_new = content_new + line.replace('"$numberLong":', '').replace('\n', '').strip();
					boolReplaceFromNextLine = True
					boolHandlingLong = True
				else:
					if boolHandlingLong:
						content_new = content_new + line.replace('}', '').strip();
						boolReplaceFromNextLine = True
						boolHandlingLong = False
					else:
						boolReplaceFromNextLine = False
						content_new = content_new + line.replace('}', '').strip() + '\n';
			else:
				content_new = content_new + line		
		
		if line == '},\n' and content_new:
			recordCount = recordCount + 1
			b = open(path + "_NEW", "a+")
			b.write(content_new)
			b.close()	
			content_new = ""
			print('Record ' + str(recordCount) + ' processed... adding it to the file...')
			
		prevPiece = line
	
	if content_new:
		b = open(path + "_NEW", "a+")
		b.write(content_new)
		b.close()	
		content_new = ""
		recordCount = recordCount + 1
		print('Record ' + str(recordCount) + ' processed... adding it to the file...')