scripts - collection of scripts

About

A collection of useful scripts in POSIX shell or BASH.

• https://github.com/explosion-mental/scripts
• https://codeberg.org/explosion-mental/scripts

Usually a script will have a starting comment describing the functionality and/or how to use the program. For larger scripts tho, a flag --help or -h should be enough.

Currently the scripts aren’t big enough to deserve it’s own manual page or even it’s own repo.

Rewrite in POSIX SHELL!!11

Bash has nice features that are built into the language itself, which most of the time could be faster than calling a third party program.

Feel free to send a Pull Request about POSIXfying (bash -> sh) scripts if you really into it.

Some scripts

Some scripts which I documented before.

termyt

My ’simple’ take on watching youtube. Use ytfzf if you are looking for more functionality.

• -t flag for thumbnails

Use termyt -h

dmenurl

display what you want to do with the current argument (either a file, url or whatever).

kinda deprecated since I only find it useful on termyt

redyt

Bugswriter script, really cool! Few changes

• Best options on sxiv (imo)
• Reddit colors🤓👍
• Now it displays gifs as well
• You can see “posts” (titles,header)

Use redyt -h

dmenu_browser

I forgot where I got this, but I use it to search firefox (since my url bar is hidden) and surf. Even bookmarks, youtube, wikipedia, etc… You implement what you want!

clipmenu

Forked to work with xclip Apparently there are more scripts than clipmenu and clipmenud(daemon). You decide what you want (I recommend to put clipmenu, clipmenud and clipdel on one of your directories appended to the PATH variable), also is initended to be install with the makefile so i change it a bit to make it better. Pretty clean code I really like that👍

clipmagick

Another Bugswritter idea but i added some cool stuff

Basically use what you have stored on you clipboard (if you use `xsel` change ’xclip’ with ’xsel’ with the log file on ’/tmp’).

qndl

script with a little handler to handle all kinds of urls. Youtube is problematic since I can’t tell if I’m going to download a video or audio (song), so the second argument of the script, right now only with this arguments, takes ’audio’.

mpdnoti

displays a notification with notify-send about the current song of mpd.

Requires mpc.

samedir

samedir collection, which uses the current active window path.

• samedir: terminal instance
• samedirvifm: vifm instance
• samedirmenu: lists files with dmenu and uses xdg-open to open them.

Vifm image previews

• vifmimg
• vifmrun

If you use vifm consider taking a look at this.

Remember from time to time you should use `vifmimg remove` (which removes the cache).

• You can see \*.doc,\*.docx, \*.ppt,\*.pptx and prob all ’ms’ like office files (You need libreoffice, it can be done with pandoc but I havent implemented yet. Manually uncomment the line of pandoc and comment the soffice one).
• Cleaner code
• Prevented all word splitting issues
• Added ’pid’ option, which removes the vifm-ipc and vifm-ueberzug files (on /tmp) which are named pipes; when closing the terminal with a ’binding’ other than ZZ or :q those files would not be removed.
• Two configurable variables on vifmimg.
• It uses cksum to see whether the file was modified.

TODO

• display a message while the preview is loading (for everything but images)

Credits

Luke Smith scripts, which some are gathered in this proyect, because they are useful. But I felt like they deserve it’s own repo. https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/voidrice

This work is licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.0, unless specified otherwise. Year: 2022