a collection of personal scripts. A few worked way back in time, some need a complete rewrite but 90% are perfectly usable.
Increase or decrease the screen's backlight. Should work with any backlight driver
List Archlinux's installed packages by size. By Allan McRae
Hash a SSL certificate
Old script to post on Twitter with Basic Authentication. Need to be updated with OAuth but I've since switched to TTYtter
A script to compare images in a directory for similarity. It returns only those similar but not identical in a list. At this moment the list contains all images that have at least another very similar but doesn't check if they are similar with all the other images in the list, ending up with different couples of similar images but not all very similar. I found it too long to loop again and again to check all the images among themselves or return different lists for each group of similar images
Browse (sub)reddits with the Reddit client cortex. Totally an hack, subscribing them on Reddit is much easier but I didn't want to read all my subscriptions each time so I wrote this script to choose what and when to browse
Not my script originally, I just made it Python 3.2 compatible
Delete a random choice of files in a directory by a given percentage. Seems totally pointless but you'll never imagine the use case that made me write it... :)
Deploy script for dotfiles here on Github. Untested.
Search and insert words and definitions in a SQLite dictionary of multiple languages
Boot script for DWM
A simple dzen statusbar
Weather script with icons for Dzen
Useful for Newsbeuter or other similar cli softwares that can't show images in terminals. It checks whether a url is to an image, and open it in feh, or to something else, and open it in the browser
Sort images in a directory and feed them to feh. Also, delete feh's filelist files if present. Same script written in Lua and Python
Print the current IP. Both IPv4 and IPv6 are shown
A very raw HD benchmark tool
A script to launch i3lock-color with some specific settings. Nothing too fancy, mostly copied from the official repo
CLI unread count of my 2 GMail accounts. I used this as input for an AwesomeWM widget before the gmail one from vicious was implemented. Nowadays it's superfluous (and in need of refactoring...)
Remove exiv tags from all the images in the current directory. People add all sorts of absurd tags to their images...
A script to download the latest 30 posts matching an hashtags' list on Instagram. Requires instaloader
The basename shell command implemented in Lua
A quite raw benchmark for Lua scripts
Compare tables for equality, after having "setified" them, in Lua
The dirname shell command implemented in Lua
DNS lookup in NodeJS
Random number generator
Get current user's home directory
Iterate over nested tables in Lua
List files with just ls instead of using lua-filesystem (which has more
features of course)
Css for markdown files converted to html, printed or shown on screen
Go parser of Markdown file to HTML
Quick wrapper for error checking for functions that must run (panic if don't)
A skeleton of a function parsing cli arguments in Lua
A generator of prime numbers based on Goroutines and channels
Convert an integer representing the seconds in minutes or a full representation of a clock (HH:MM:SS)
Dead simple web server in Golang
Output a magnet link to a torrent file to save it for future re-use
Make a gif from a video using FFmpeg. Quick and Dirty (size, duration are hardencoded).
Script to query the Google Maps API for results matching a specific category of places around Krakow. This was a base for a full web app that never saw the light. An API key is needed
Convert all markdown files in a path to html
Launch MPlayer while disabling screensaver, DPMS settings and any compositing manager. When MPlayer exits, it reapplies the previous settings
Launch scripts for Nautilus. Not actually using them since years
Save network upload and download statistics in a file. Sum the numbers if from the same day (to take into account reboots)
Output url and title from an article in newsbeuter in a file. I used, and occasionally use still, this to tweet the interesting news from the rss feeds I follow
Quick script for the browser console to check whether links on a page are nofollow or dofollow.
Returns the name of a file, randomly picked in a given path among those matching an extension (or any kind of file at all if no extension is selected)
Use plowdown to download in parallel when downloading from different sites
Take a desktop screenshot with just a few Python lines
Randomly choose and open a manpage. I found this to be an extremely quick and funny way to discover hidden features and commands of your system
Removing some useless directories/files in ~
Debug AwesomeWM with Xephyr. It can easily adapted to any other WM
Save bandwidth stats to a text file, ready to be loaded in Tiddlywiki
Format files containing BBCode. More informations in the script itself
Print files and directories that are bigger than 1Mb. I use this to discover what is eating up all the disk space in a partition
A pretty basic, and not that useful, blog/site backup script
Clean using go clean archive files and executable binaries created
with go install and go get in your $GOPATH
2 scripts to clean undodir and views directories under ~/.vim/ to delete
references to files that are not present anymore on disk and thus save space.
Probably not useful today with >1TB disks but I hate wasting space
Launched at boot from your WM/DE, it detects thanks to xinput whether a mouse is present or not and disable/enable the touchpad accordingly. It goes along with the udev rules, completing it as with udev it can only be detected when a mouse is plugged in or off, not when it's already plugged in at boot. "Lachesis" is my mouse, of course
Download a single file from a specific repository on Github
Convert Dos/Unix newline format
Download all images on a webpage with Curl. Does not check the type of image nor check if it is already present (it will overwrite images with the same name) but for a quick job it's ok. Readapted from a script found months ago on the web
Restore UEFI boot menu entries. Of course only those I use/care about
An entropy-generating script. I use this when I need to overwrite a partition or
disk with random data for security reasons. As I'm paranoid, /dev/urandom
isn't enough
A wrapper for imgtags.py
Extract all URLs from a file
Save the flash video opened in firefox. Not working with all files/sites
Remove all those .thumbnails/ directories under a path. I hate keeping 5 years
old thumbnails of files that have been removed ages ago...
Convert an IPv4 address to its IPv6 equivalent
Print the number of files in each subdirectory of a given directory
A double script that launches on suspend. If running under Wayland, it uses
swaylock to lock the screen, otherwise it is assumed it is X11 and uses
i3lock
Move Firefox profiles in a file mounted in memory
Create thumbnails for images in a directory
Merge all html files in a directory in a single page
Transfer a directory containing music to the sdcard Music/ directory on
Android phones. Not using this anymore, mounting the phone via usb is quicker
Open mailto links in mutt
Extract every page of a pdf as jpg images
Update the proxy address used by pianobar to access Pandora outside the US
Make a playlist out of music files in a directory and optionally convert flacs to oggs
Print the total size, in MB, of an online directory, publicly accessible, by downloading all the headers of the files, extracting their size in bytes, and summing them up
Output a serie of Unicode characters on the terminal. For the times when you know there's a character in the Unicode table but don't know the code and can't remember the name. Of course I've only added those I find more useful
Mount my private, cryptsetup encrypted partition and start the MPD daemon. Automatic detection of different partition, on desktop or laptop
Check whether a proxy is working and is from the US by trying to access pandora.com (as it is blocked here in Italy, if I can access it it must be an US address)
Add currently playing song in MPD to a playlist using ncmpcpp or cmus (quite easily expanded for other players). The original script allowed only to rate songs in aptly named playlists (1 to 5) but this permits to use any name for the playlist
Audio cd ripping script (to mp3, ogg or flac)
Disable/enable the touchpad. When writing long texts on a laptop the fingers can move the pointer and it's annoying. Disabling the touchpad removes the problem
A libnotify notification for completed torrents in Transmission
Tweets current playing song (from ncmpcpp) via TTYtter. This must be configured already
This is a old script, but still working, that I used when I did some video editing. Basically it generates an image containing informations such as filename, size, lenght and codec of a video along with a series of thumbnails to show off its content. I never tweaked it more than "black backround, fixed spacing between thumbs" though, I just needed something that didn't force me to depend on external programs.
Mount an encrypted partition on a usb hd that I use for backups.
Completely disable and power off the Atheros wifi card on the Asus 1005H netbook
A super-raw and quick script to set up the main files associations with xdg-open
Use a video as desktop background with xwinwrap. I have no idea why anybody would want to but it's a funny trick
A script to mount an encrypted ZFS dataset. Mostly the equivalent of script_private.sh
Show IP addresses for a host
A launcher for Sopcast streaming links. I had a Bash function for this but it was convoluted to kill the Sopcast process when exiting the video player. Go handles this case much more easily
Timer and service to clean ImageMagick's temporary files created in /tmp and not properly cleaned (see issue 395)
Timer and service to disable a misbeaving acpi interrupt (happens with some specific hardware or BIOSes)
Lock, using physlock but any other locker may be used, the session on lid closing signal
A post and pre hook to lock after and before suspend when running under Wayland. Not used anymore, left as an example of these hooks
Systemd service for wired networks
A service and timer couple to overwrite every 10 minutes the /etc/hosts file with a copy that is on one of my personal directories. That's because the file it's automatically generated by copying blacklists from the internet of advertisement/malware/adware/etc. to ban every few minutes and I need /etc/hosts to be synced with this updated file
A systemd service to run stash app as a server (on a Raspberry Pi in my case but can be ran anywhere)
systemd/zfs-scrub@.timer and systemd/zfs-scrub@.service
Timer and service to do a monthly ZFS scrubbing
Launch TTYtter under screen or tmux as a self-respawning daemon with Systemd
Open a 3 windows tmux session, one for each of html, css and js files to edit. Specifically made for website projects
Open 2 split windows in tmux, changing paths to the project's to work on
Old shell TTYtter startup script that I used before switching to Systemd. It checks whether a tmux session containing TTYtter is already running and reattaches to it or if it's not, launch one. This is for WM that are launched by \startx as a DM implements already the same functionalities
A wrapper around pyyaml to quickly validate a yaml file from the command line
Quick script to add a watermark on an image. Used for copyrighting my images at the moment
