g6scripts

A collection of personal scripts I use.

contents

1. overview
2. installing
3. uninstall
4. notes
5. scripts

overview

I use most of these scripts for convenience and to save on typing.

More recently I've been making an effort to learn PowerShell as I tend to use windows a fair bit too, so there are a few one-off scripts used for that too.

installing (unix only)

I've created an install script (bash) to help with selecting the scripts you want to install.

usage: ./install [ARGUMENTS] [SCRIPT]

SCRIPTS
  Optionally, you can specify a script to install.
  Any specified scripts must be the filepath to the
  script (not just the filename).

ARGUMENTS
  -f, --force         overwrites files when installing
  -r,   --reinstall   re-install scripts already existing in
		      destination directory
  -d, --dest [DEST]   set the install destination
  -a, --all           install ALL the scripts ('y' to all prompts)
  -l, --link          'ln' the script (not cp).
  -h, --help          print this dialog

uninstalling

I'm planning to add an uninstall bash script too, currently you'll have to manually delete all the files added for now though.

notes

I've added -h options to all the scripts.

Personally find grepf and while-true to by the most frequently used.

windows (powershell) scripts

• random - a script I use to select a random item in a directory.
• zip27z - converts all .zip files in current directory to .7z

unix (shell) scripts

Some are bash-only, I make an effort to keep to sh when I can though - for compatibility across unix(-like)s.

strings & numbers

Scripts related to string parsing/manipulation

• strindex - print the index (starting from 0) of the first character in substring $1 found in string $2
• grepf - find all files in dir $1, that conatin string $2. Useful for debugging somebody else's code in a terminal.
• randstr - generate a random string
• d2h - convert decimal numbers to hexadecimal

file management

• backup - cp input files $@ from filename to filename.bak (mv with -m)
• catrm rm -i but with the option to cat the file
• flac2mp3 - converts .flac files $@ to .mp3. Requires ffmpeg.
• openurl - xdg-open all links found in files $@
• mkdcp - make directory $1 and copy files into it ($2..$n)
• mkdmv - make directory $1 and move files into it ($2..$n)
• mkdnvim - make directory $1, touch file $2 and open file $2 in nvim
• mkdtouch - make a directory $1, touch files in it ($2..$n)

tooling

• pyserve - shorthand for python3 -m http.server --directory $1
• git-cfg - shorthand for setting git config --local user.name $1 && git config --local user.email $2
  • You can also use it for setting global config using -g
• git-clone-bulk - clone a list of git repositories
• git-pull-all - pull all remote branches from the current upstream
• gobuild - build a go module in all available output formats, useful for releases
• preview-md - convert a markdown file $1 to html, open if $2 == "-o" or "--open". Uses cmark by default, set conversion tool and default output destination in src.
• compress-pdf - compress a .pdf file $1, requires ghostscript (gs)

misc

• shush - echo output of $@ to null
• pomodoro - a pomodoro timer.
• while-true - clear the terminal, run $1 sleep ($2 || 1 sec), repeat forever (Ctrl+C to cancel)

depreciated

This contains scripts that I once used but eventually realised were useless.

authors

• gearsix