iamnewton / bash-utils

A collection of bash utilities and scripts to help out your every day activities

BASH Utilities

A lot of bash functions and scripts I've created and collected over the years.

Requirements

• xCode Command Line Tools

For the most part, there shouldn't be any dependencies, but each script will have a place at the top that discusses the dependency.

One-line Install

$ bash -c "$(curl -#fL raw.github.com/iamnewton/bash-utils/go/install)"

Features

• $ - Wrapper to prevent bad copy/paste of bash commands
• cdls - Change into directory, list all files
• cleanup - Recursively delete files that match a certain pattern
• colors - Constants and functions for terminal colors
• compare-gzip - Compare original and gzipped file size
• css-stats - Generates CSS stats
• draw-ruler - Draw a ruler across the screen
• eachdir - Run one or more commands in one or more directories
• extract - Unarchive various compression formats based on extension
• favicon - Favicon and Apple Touch Icon Generator
• find-todos - Finds all the @TODOs in a specified directory
• fpo - Grabs random placholder images from hhhhold.com and downloads images
• fs - Determine size of a file or total size of a directory
• get-cert-names - Show all the names (CNs and SANs) listed in the SSL certificate for a given domain
• gitio - Turns a github.com URL into a git.io URL
• git-updateall - Runs git pull on every directory within the current directory
• httpcompression - Test if HTTP compression (RFC 2616 + SDCH) is enabled for a given URL
• ie-vm - Download the Virtual Box images for IE VMs
• json - Syntax-highlight JSON strings or files
• jump - Quickly navigate your filesystem
• lint - Allows you to check your html, css or js
• makefile - Creates a Makefile for encrypting passwords/sensitive data in repos
• miscellaneous - Various helper scripts
• pid - Get the PIDs of all matching processes for all specified processnames.
• rgb-to-xterm - Convert values between RGB hex codes and xterm-256 color codes.
• server - Start an HTTP server from a directory, optionally specifying the port
• todo - Creates a todo item on Desktop
• targz - Create a .tar.gz archive, using zopfli, pigz or gzip for compression
• today - Creates/updates Today's todo list
• todo - Creates something for me to do
• update-ctags - Updates ctags

Acknowledgements

Inspiration and code was taken from many sources, including (in lexicographical order):

• @cowboy (Ben Alman) https://github.com/cowboy/dotfiles
• @holman (Zach Holman) https://github.com/holman/dotfiles
• @mathiasbynens (Mathias Bynens) https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles
• @necolas (Nicolas Gallagher) https://github.com/necolas/dotfiles
• @wmorgan (William Morgan)