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https://github.com/jabbalaci/bash-utils

Miscellaneous small utils, mainly for the Bash shell.
https://github.com/jabbalaci/bash-utils

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Bash Utils (miscellaneous small utils for the Bash shell)

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**New (Jan 9, 2017)!** All scripts were updated to Python 3. The original Python 2 version (which is not maintained anymore) is tagged as "v0.1". You can find that

under the "release" link.



Here I collect some small command-line utils.



* Author:  Laszlo Szathmary, 2011-2017 (jabba.laci@gmail.com)

* Github:  https://github.com/jabbalaci/Bash-Utils



dictionary/meaning.py

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* Look up the meaning of a word.

* Usage: `meaning pen`

* Meaning: what does the word `pen` mean?



dropbox/dropbox_permissions.py

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* Set directory/file permissions in your Dropbox folder in an intelligent way.

* Intended audience: Linux users who also use Windows sometimes.

* Usage: put the script in the root of your Dropbox folder and launch it.

* [blog post](https://ubuntuincident.wordpress.com/2011/05/08/setting-file-permissions-in-your-dropbox-folder-recursively/)



dropbox/get_public_link.py

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* Show the public Dropbox link(s) of one (or several) file(s).

* Dropbox made some changes in 2017, so it doesn't work anymore.

* Usage: `get_public_link [ | -a]`

* [blog post](https://ubuntuincident.wordpress.com/2011/06/01/get-the-public-dropbox-links-of-several-files/)



firefox/export_firefox_cookies.py

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* This script extracts cookies from Firefox's `cookies.sqlite`  that are specific to a given host. The exported cookies are saved in `cookies.txt`. New! It also exports session cookies from Firefox's `recovery.js` file.

The exported cookies are saved to `session_cookies.txt`.

* The original script was [written by Dirk Sohler](https://old.0x7be.de/2008/06/19/firefox-3-und-cookiestxt/).

* Usage: `export_firefox_cookies.py `

* [blog post](https://ubuntuincident.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/download-pages-with-wget-that-are-protected-by-cookies/)



mouse/mousepos_gui.py

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* Monitor the mouse position in real-time.

* It only worked for me under Python 2!

* I made it to facilitate the usage of autopy (http://www.autopy.org). Autopy has a [Python 3 port here](https://github.com/Riamse/autopy3).

* Usage: `mousepos_gui.py`

* [blog post](https://ubuntuincident.wordpress.com/2011/09/11/gui-to-monitor-mouse/)



radio/radio.py

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* A minimalistic radio player.

* Available stations: Slay Radio, goa, trance, chillout, etc.

* Usage: `radio.py`



replace_accents/replace_latex_accents.pl

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* This script allows you to write special Hungarian and French characters in a simple way

(using the ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1) charset), then convert them to their LaTeX-equivalents.

* Example: La'szlo'  =>  L\'{a}szl\'{o}

* [blog post]( https://ubuntuincident.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/replace-accents-for-latex/)



replace_accents/replace_french_accents_to_latex.pl

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* This script converts a French accented text to LaTeX replacing the funny characters with their LaTeX equivalents.

* Example: é  =>  \'{e}

* [blog post]( https://ubuntuincident.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/replace-accents-for-latex/)



alarm.py

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* A simple alarm script that plays a list of MP3s at a given time.

Very useful if you leave your computer switched on during the night.

* Usage:

```

$ alarm -p

    Play music first to adjust volume.

$ alarm -t 7h5

    Set alarm time (5 past 7 in this example).

```

* [blog post]( https://ubuntuincident.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/alarm-script/)



cb.py

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* Print the content of the clipboard to the standard output.

* Usage: `cb.py`



fftabs.py

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* A command line program for manipulating Firefox tabs.

* Requirements: Firefox + MozRepl add-on.

* Help: `fftabs -h`



from_base64.py

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* Ask a base64 string and convert it back to a normal string (decode).

* Usage: `from_base64`



get_alap.py

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* An interactive program to generate a skeleton source code.

* Supported languages: Python, Go, Java, C, D.

* Usage: `get_alap.py`



get_images.py

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* Extract image links from a web page.

* Usage: `get_images URL [URL]... [-l]`



get_links.py

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* Extract all links from a web page.

* Usage: `get_links.py `

* [blog post](https://pythonadventures.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/extract-all-links-from-a-web-page/)



github_user_email.py

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* An interactive program that figures out the email address of a GitHub user.

* Usage: `github_user_email.py`



here.py and here.sh

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* Print just the name of the current directory. For instance, if you are in `/home/students/solo`, then this script will print just `solo`.

* `here.sh` simply prints the output, while `here.py`, in addition, copies the output to the clipboards.

* Usage: `here`



img_to_base64.py

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* Take an image file and encode it with BASE64. Put the encoded data in an "img" HTML tag.

* Usage: `img_to_base64 `

* [blog post](https://ubuntuincident.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/embed-images-in-html-pages/)



inout.py

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* An interactive script for 1) compressing a folder to another directory, and

  2) uncompressing an archive file to a destination directory.

* Rationale: I always forget the order of parameters...

* Usage: `inout`



is_net_back.py

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* Play a sound when the Internet connection is back.

* Usage: `is_net_back`



myip.py

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* My external IP address.

* Usage: `myip`



ocr.py

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* A wrapper script around the [Tesseract](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract) OCR engine. Convert an image to string.

* Usage: `ocr `



open_in_tabs.py

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* Read URLs from the standard input and open them in separated browser tabs.

* Usage: `cat url_list.txt | open_in_tabs`

* [blog post](https://ubuntuincident.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/open-urls-in-browser-tabs-simultaneously/)



prettify.py

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* Prettify an HTML page, i.e. pretty print its HTML source.

* The script prints the HTML source that is built by BeautifulSoup (BS). Idea: if you want to manipulate a page with BS, analyze the prettified source instead of the original because this is how BS stores it.

* Usage: `prettify `

* [blog post](https://pythonadventures.wordpress.com/2011/04/03/prettify-html-with-beautifulsoup/)



prettyjson.py

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* Prettify a JSON file.

* Usage: `prettyjson ugly.json`



py2rtf.py

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* Transform a python source file to RTF.

* Usage: `py2rtf [-f] hello.py`

* Meaning: the output is written to `hello.rtf`

* [blog post](http://ubuntuincident.wordpress.com/2012/08/07/insert-syntax-highlighted-source-in-powerpoint/)



redirect_to.py

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* This script tells you where a webpage redirects.

* Usage: `redirect_to.py `

* [blog post](http://pythonadventures.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/where-does-a-page-redirect-to/)



rep.py

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* Repeat a bash command several times.

* Usage: `rep  `

* Example: `rep 3 echo hello`

* Meaning: print the text "hello" three times.



slogan.py

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* Generate some slogans from a keyword.

* Usage: `slogan `



sp.py

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* Print the absolute path of a file. If no parameter is passed, show the current path. The name stands for "show path".

* This is one of my most useful scripts :) I use it every day.

* Usage: `sp []`

* [blog post](https://ubuntuincident.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/show-the-absolute-path-of-a-file/)



to_base64.py

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* Ask a string and convert it to a base64 string (encode).

* Usage: `to_base64`



to_md5.py

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* This scripts reads a text *interactively* and prints its

md5-encoded version. The output is a 32-character long

hexa string.

* Usage: `to_md5`



to_utf8.py

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* Convert a text file to an UTF-8-encoded text. The output is printed to the screen.

* Usage: `to_utf8 input.txt`



tocb.py

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* Copy the text from the standard input to ALL clipboards. Thus, you can use any paste method to insert your text (middle mouse button or Shift+Insert). The name stands for "to clipboard(s)".

* Usage: `cat file.txt | tocb`

* Options: with `-t` you can trim the text first (remove whitespaces from both ends of the text).

* [blog post](https://pythonadventures.wordpress.com/2011/03/05/copy-string-to-x-clipboards/)



top10.py

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* Show the top 10 largest files in the current directory. Filesizes can be shown in a human-readable format with the `-h` option.

* Usage: `top10 [-h]`



twitch2mp3.py

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* Grab a twitch video in mp3.

* Usage: `twitch2mp3 TWITCH_VIDEO_URL`



userpass.py

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* Username and password generator.

* Usage: `userpass`



us.py

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* Change spaces to underscores. Pass a string as a parameter OR pass it

on the standard input.

* Example #1: `us "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist.pdf"`

* Result #1: `How_to_Think_Like_a_Computer_Scientist.pdf`

* Example #2: `echo "he he" | us`

* Result #2: `he_he`



xml2json.py

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* Convert an XML file to JSON.

* This is a wrapper around the excellent [xmltodict](https://github.com/martinblech/xmltodict) library.

* Usage: `xml2json `