bin

bin

My Linux ~/bin folder, including my .bashrc and .bash_aliases.

This repository will contain all the various tools and / or commands I find that I put in my ~/bin folder.

Here’s a list of the most interesting ones, along with what they do and where they came from (assuming I can find / remember):

• style - Add style to your output
• hr - A horizontal ruler for your terminal
• dropbox_uploader.sh - Dropbox Uploader is a BASH script which can be used to upload, download, list or delete files from Dropbox.
• swapusage - Shows swap usage by process. Useful for determining which services to restart if you aren’t allowed to fiddle with your swap.
• extract - Extracts several different types of archive.
• mail-service-restart - Restarts all service related to my mail server. Currently needs upgrading to use systemd.
• decrypt - Decrypts something encrypted with a password with openssl.
• encrypt - Encrpyts something with a password with openssl.
• splitdotmbox.sh - Splits a .mbox file into it’s component messages
• ctx - Shows contact switches by process in real time
• ps_mem - Shows memory usage by process.
• node-update - Adapted from a bash script given in a github issue for io.js, this script will update you to the latest version of node. I think that there’s a bug with it, but it works well enough for me.
• stealtime - Tells you how much of your CPU time has been stolen by other virtual machines.
• speedtest-cli
• mountunishares - A script that automatically mounts my university file shares.
• pd - A directory stack helper. Insanely useful - I think I picked it up from a superuser answer somewhere.
• transfer - A look that looks very useful. Like termbin.com, but for any kind of file. Keeps files for 14 days, and has an uppder limit of 5GB.
• xidel - A (what looks like) a brilliant html extraction tool. Supports various selector languages.
• micro - A new (experimental) terminal-based text editor.
• tig - A terminal-based git repository browser.
• backup - A script I wrote to make using Duplicity easier.
• genimagecomparisonframes - Another script I wrote to generate the frames for the first half of this video.
• dtach - A minimal alternative to screen and tmux.
• commacd - A faster way to move around.
• drop_pagecache - A quick script I wrote to drop the linux page cache.
• hastebin - A hastebin CLI.
• quickshare - A quick way to share files via HTTP.
• cscz - The one and only C# class generator. A little timesaving tool I built myself, written in C# or course :D
• repren - A good bulk file renaming tool.
• goldilocks - A script that displays all of the possible terminal colours.
• catimg - A cool script to display images in the terminal. Useful when you’re sshing into servers.
• tldr - A bash client for tldr-pages.
• git ignore - A really useful subcommand for git that allows you to generate ignore files automagically.
• organise-photos - A small bash script I wrote that organises the photos in a directory by year & month.
• ogg-cover-art - A script that adds cover art to ogg files.
• senddir - A small script I wrote to send whole directories over the network as a temporary thing. Uses netcat + gzip + tar.
• recvdir - The counterpart to the above that receives the directory sent.
• brightness.sh - Another small script I’ve written that controls the brightness of my screen. It works for me, but it may not work for you.
• ptr - A small script I wrote that uses dig to do PTR (reverse DNS) lookups, since I have to keep looking the command up every time :P
• * clip
  • setclip - Sets the clipboard to the contents of the standard input
  • getclip - Sends the current clipboard contents out of the standard output
  • listenclip - Listens on localhost:5556 and pipes any data recieved into the clipboard. Make sure you’re firewall is working correctly!
  • sendclip - Pipes stdin to localhost:5556. Useful in conjuntion with ssh port forwarding and the tool above.
  • serveclip - Serves the clipboard on port 5557. Doesn’t close the connection automatically, sadly - pathes welcome!
• shellshare - A live terminal broadcasting utility.
• colortrans - Convert rgb colours to xterm ones
• nautilus-here - A quick command that opens nautilus in the current directory. For lazy people :P
• ssh-retry - I forget where it came from, but this command reepeatedly calls ssh until it succeeds in connecting.
• quote-get - Displays a random quote from a remote file. The quote stays the same until the following day. The remote file is cached locally for convenience :smiley_cat:
• teleport / telepeek / telepick - A pair of quick functions in my .bash_aliases file for quickly jumping about. Works best if you’ve got a decent amount of free RAM for the cache.
• reflac - Small flac recompression script

cloudsurfer.sh

cloudsurfer.sh is a new script I’m writing to bring some of the customisations I store here in this repository to terminals on shared machines - where I can’t modify .bashrc, for example.

It’s designed to be executed in a single bash context, and leave no trace on the host machine after the customisations are applied - just in case the bash process crashes! If need be, it can also be executed in multiple separate bash processes and will bring the customisations to each one separately - without interfering with the rest of the machine.

Due to it’s transient nature, cloudsurfer is bound to be more lightweight and be missing a few features of the full list that my main bin folder can provide, but the aim is to make a foreign terminal feel a bit more like home :smiley_cat:

Here’s a list of things it currently supports:

• Aliases - by dynamically loading the main .bash_aliases
• Colouring the prompt to remind you that cloudsurfer is active
• (Got an idea of something to include? File an issue, or open a pull request!)

To use it, simply paste this into the target terminal:

   cstemp=$(mktemp); curl -o ${cstemp} -L https://goo.gl/ZTtVRq; chmod +x ${cstemp}; source ${cstemp}; rm ${cstemp}; cstemp=;

and then to drop out of cloudsurfer again:

exec bash && reset

Disclaimer

I don’t own many of the tools in this repository. If you are an owner of one of these tools and I haven’t linked to you, please let me know as I probably forgot.