pdf_monitor.bash - Real Time PDF Monitoring

Recursively finds the newest plots/figures (pdfs, first page only) and assembles them chronologically into an n-page pdf. Tries to ignore duplicate files with different names (and meta-data).

Easy way to quickly review/summarize recent research.

Requires pdfjam, zathura, inotify, od, awk. inotify is not needed if you are willing to forego 'real-time' monitoring (e.g. executing via a cron-job).

pdf_search.bash - Recursive grep for pdfs.

Recursively searches all pdfs for string. Requires nothing special. Not sensitive to case by default.

Put this in your .bashrc:

. ~/bin/my_bash_tools/pdf_search.bash

Then you can do this whenever you want:

cd /home/equant/directory/structure/full/of/directories/and/pdf/files
pdf J04381486

report_ip.bash - Poor man's DynDNS

Cron job that copies my home IP to my work machine so I can easily ssh past my cable provider's dynamic IP assignment.