Some shell scripts

Here are some shell scripts I use. They don't particularly shine because of complexity or originality but they just happen to be useful to me. They all work with Bash and have been tested on my GNU/Linux computer.

gg, ggl and lyr

These very small scripts I use to simulate konqueror's nice shortcuts a bit. In konqueror [KDE's integrated browser] you can search with Google just by entering something like "gg:foobar" in the address bar. Or even more quick is to use ggl, which is like pressing "I'm feeling lucky" when searching, and takes you to the first search result. The last program "lyr" is to search for lyrics of things. For example "lyr foo bar" would mean "ggl lyrics foo bar", which a lot of times gives you the right lyrics within seconds.

howto

This is a script to read HOWTOs installed somewhere on the system. Change the directory to suit your particular distribution. When run without arguments it will give a list of files, when run with arguments it will display the first match [in your HOWTO directory, that is].

vuxcontrol

This is a script to control "vux", which in turn is a shell script... Vux keeps scores for the songs you listen to, the score goes down with songs you skip and goes up for songs which are fully played. With this program you can control the program more easily. Without this program you would skip a song with "killall -HUP vux" or something like it. Now you can do "vuxcontrol next" or "vuxcontrol pause". [PS-I use version 0.3.5, the new version seems to have a similar but more advanced version of my idea but this works better for me].

status

This will generate a short status report to stdout, in HTML format. Look at http://unstable.nl/status.php for an example of this. I have put it in a cron script and serve the file with apache.

dlpage

This script generates a listing of .exe, .zip and .gz files in the directory specified in the script, in HTML format [as links]. See http://unstable.nl/dlpage.html for specimen.

sha1check

This checks an album's SHA-1 sums. The contents of the directory are checked against the .m3u file with ls and the checksums are checked with sha1sum against a .pun file with SHA-1 checksums in it.

ren

This is a very simpleminded utility to rename an album from short to long naming format. Example:

	/Some - Thing/01 - Foo.mp3  becomes /Some - Thing/Some - Thing - 01 - Foo.mp3
	/Some - Thing/02 - Bar.mp3  becomes /Some - Thing/Some - Thing - 02 - Bar.mp3
	/Some - Thing/03 - Etc.mp3  becomes /Some - Thing/Some - Thing - 03 - Etc.mp3

It reads the directory name and puts it in front of every .mp3-filename. No checking is done so be confident in what you do.