Scripts
Here are some handy scripts.
amarok_slider_helper.pldownload
Shows a very wide slider allowing you to adust amarok's song position with much greater accuracy and ease than with amarok's GUI. Hit Escape and it will go away. Have a look in the script itself for other key bindings.
Requires: perl DCOP module group-rename (v1)download
A quick file-renamer for just editing any common prefix that all the files have.
For example you can quickly rename a bunch of the.daily.show.2007.whatever-blah.avi files to TDS-2007.whatever-blah.avi 
Version 2 (coming soon) will support changing any common postfix also.
truncate-filedownload
Requires
pgprompt
A utility for truncating a file to a specific length. It can be used in scripts and can use pgprompt to ask the user for confirmation. I take absolutely no responsibility for any loss of data caused by possible bugs in this program. Use it only at your own risk.
exec-in-bgdownload
Allows you to execute a command and args in the background without having to tack on an ampersand " &".
Example: In the following code snippet, using exec-in-bg avoids having to generate a command string including all the files in @files and then tacking on an & . In addition to being simpler and clearer, it avoids all sorts of problems with files that have spaces in them which would need to then be quoted.
#!/usr/bin/perl
my @files=(@ARGV);
my @command=("do_something","or","other",@files);
system("exec-in-bg",@command);
something_else();
exec-in-xtermdownload
Executes the command (specified on the command line) in an xterm.
Example: exec-in-xterm iftop or exec-in-xterm tail -f /some/log/file exec-and-waitdownload
Waits for you to hit Enter after the command finishes.
Example: exec-and-wait tail -n 100 /some/log/file or exec-in-xterm exec-and-wait tail -n 100 /some/log/file humanifydownload
Filters numbers in it's output - turning them into human-readable numbers (converts to K,M,G units etc).
hexconvdownload
Converts numbers between different units on the command line.
Example: $> hexconv x0a=d x=0a ==> d=10 $> hexconv d10=x d=10 ==> x=0x $> hexconv d10=x d=10 ==> x=0x $> hexconv x0a 0d ab cd x=0a ==> d=10 x=0d ==> d=13 x=ab ==> d=171 x=cd ==> d=205 pointer-positiondownload
Prints the X11 pointer position.
Requires: perl X11::Protocol This may or may not work for you. It used to work for me but now it doesn't. |
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