Trusty Tools

Overview

These tools make up part of the toolset that I find useful for everyday use.

Unixy folder

Command	Description
brew-deptree	Displays dependency tree for all installed packages
brew-installed-sizes	List installed Homebrew formulae and their sizes
brew-requested	List all requested Homebrew formulae
carc	Simply and safely archive files with optional gpg encryption
clfu	Displays quick-reference for the top 100 commands at commandlinefu.com
cmpdir	Wrapper for rsync to compare two directory trees by checksum
decrypt	Simply decrypts all sorts of gpg-encrypted files
encrypt	Simply encrypts files with gpg
gh-remote-add-upstream	Adds upstream of local checkout, if origin is already configured.
gh-remote-add-fork	Lets you interactively select forks (or the upstream's forks) to add as remotes to your local checkout
git-list-big-objects	Lists the biggest objects in a git repository
jetbrains-macros-text-keycodes	Help for JetBrains IDE macros.xml editing: converts a string to type into the proper XML
ldwhich	Finds location of a dynamic library by traversing the search path, for Linux, OS X, and other Unix systems.
list	Simply shows/lists files with the right pager(s) depending on filename extension(s)
markhub	Previews (Github-flavored) Markdown files in a web browser, using github.com's stylesheet. Useful for checking files, e.g. README.mkd, before pushing to github.
merge-config-history	Helps you keep up with the updated default configs of new versions of apps (e.g., kitty, broot) when you've already customized your version
my-ip	Uses online services to determine the public IP address
ssh-add-l	Better listing of keys added to SSH agent (includes filenames)
ssh-keygen-l	Better listing of private keys (includes comments)
unln	Replaces a symlinked file with a copy so that it can be edited separately
untar	Extracts all or specific files from within a tar archive that's possibly compressed and/or encrypted. Files can be filtered at the command-line and/or interactively. Supports compress, gzip, bzip2, xz, gpg, pgp
vault-kv-fzf	Interactive browser for viewing HashiCorp Vault KV store

Mac folder

Command	Description
autoclear-clipboard	Automatically clears passwords from clipboard after a brief time (because Universal Clipboard is dangerous)
bundle-id	Displays the bundle ID of specific application (useful for terminal-notifier)
eject	Ejects a removable disk by user-friendly volume name
get-bounds-of-mouse-display	Displays the bounds of the display where the mouse is
is-app-running	Checks if the given application (using macOS friendly name) is running
list-anytrans-backups	Lists all the mobile device backups made by iMobie AnyTrans
list-chromium-caches	Lists all the Chromium/Electron cache folders and their sizes
list-installed-electron-apps	Lists which of the installed Applications run Electron
list-mobilesync-backups	Lists all the mobile device backups made by macOS
list-processes	Lists running processes as seen from "System Events"
list-tm-backups	Lists all the Time Machine backups
mac-info	Prints out one line of info about macOS software and hardware of the current machine (macOS 14.4.1 23E224 (Sonoma) MacBookPro18,2 (Apple M1 Max, arm64))
mountpoint	Like on linux, checks if a file/dir is a mountpoint
port-inactive-safe-to-uninstall	List inactive MacPorts package versions that have active replacements
port-pip-find-packages	For the MacPorts Python interpreters, lists all the pip packages and whether they were installed via MacPorts
port-uninstall-inactive-safely	Uninstalls inactive MacPorts package versions that have active replacements
quit-app	Closes an application (using macOS friendly name); often works better than pkill, e.g. for Google Drive
screencap-ocr	Lets you take a screenshot and puts the OCR'd text in your clipboard
show-dev-sig-of-running-apps	Displays Dev Signatures of running apps
unretina	Reduces the resolution of Retina screenshots to regular resolution

Contrib folder

Other folks' scripts found here and there.

Command	Description
git-quote-string-multiline	Helper for creating complex git aliases, in particular quoting special characters
ip2geo	Given a hostname or IP address, spits out city, state, country {From commandlinefu.com}
mac-disable-automount	Disables the automounting of specified volumes on macOS
netls	Graphs the number of connections for each connected remote host {From commandlinefu.com}
relink	Relinks symbolic links by perl regular expression on the paths of the links' targets.
rgf	ripgrep-fzf combo {From fzf}
timed-run	Run the specified program for a specified maximum number of seconds {By Expect's Don Libes}
timed-read	Reads a line of input, but times out after the specified number of seconds {By Expect's Don Libes}
timed-choice	Prompts user with several choices, but times out with a default after the specified number of seconds {By Eugene Spafford}
mailtrim	Trim a standard Unix mbox file to the most recent specified number of messages {By Michael Soulier}
wp	Quickly queries Wikipedia (over DNS!) {From commandlinefu.com}
wrap-in-pty	Wrap a command invocation in PTY (so that the command doesn't act any differently than in an interactive terminal)