gnulinux-utils

A collection of shell scripts designed to automate system operations and enhance workflow within the GNU/Linux terminal environment.

Important

• ls_dynamic and cdw from cdw.sh and/or ls_dynamic.sh needs to be present in your shell config file in order to run the scripts to run.
• Proper keybindings must also be set up for ls and cd to run ls_dynamic and cdw respectively.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Installation
• Usage

Introduction

• audio-and-video-playback – Play audio and video directly in (audio) from (video) terminal.
• cdw – Track the 25 most used file paths.
• ls_dynamic – Adds the ls_dynamic function when navigating with cd. It clears screen and runs eza with icons, which displays content of current path—relieving the user from having to run dir, tree, or ls manually to see the content of the navigated directory.
• ls_ft – List the content of current directory by file extension.
• ls_open – A function that displays all navigable subdirectories within the current directory.
• mount-unmount-drives – Mount and unmount external drives.
• mv_files – shorthand for bulk moving all files and folders, all folders or all files respectively.
• terminal_bookmarks – Bookmark file paths and navigate set bookmarks with the F1-F12-keys.

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Installation

Option 1 Copy and paste into shell config file

Copy paste the content of the files into either your .bashrc or your .zshrc depending on what shell you are using.

Option 2 import scripts into shell config file

• make a new directory in your home directory, call it gnulinux-utils, for instance.
  mkdir ~/gnulinux-utils
• make a new file for the script; for instance:
  touch ~/gnulinux-utils/mount-unmount-drives.sh
• Copy paste and save the content of same file in this repo to said file.

Option 3: Install a specific script only

1. Initialize a new Git repository (meaning in this context to create a new directory for the script files.)
   cd ~/
git init gnulinux-utils

2. Change into the repository directory
   cd gnulinux-utils

3. Enable sparse-checkout mode
   git sparse-checkout init --cone

4. Specify the file to check out (mount-unmount-drives.sh)
   git sparse-checkout set mount-unmount-drives.sh

5. Add the remote repository
   git remote add origin https://github.com/Z-F-x/gnulinux-utils.git

6. Fetch the repository content
   git fetch

7. Checkout the master branch (or another branch if needed)
   git checkout master

8. Delete all .sh files except for mount-unmount-drives.sh (replace file name with the script/file you want installed), all other will be deleted:
   find . -type f -name "*.sh" ! -name "mount-unmount-drives.sh" -exec rm -f {} +

9. Verify that only mount-unmount-drives.sh is left
   ls *.sh

Option 4: Install all scripts by appending all files in repo

Clone the repo in your home directory (this is the way I've set it up but you can place it wherever you like as long as you link it to the correct path in your ur .bashrc or your .zshrc i.e., your shell config files.

1. Clone the Git repository into your home directory (or any other directory just remember to link it in your script config file i.e., .bashrc or .zshrc.
   git clone https://github.com/Z-F-x/gnulinux-utils.git ~/
   1.1 Change directory to repository
   cd gnulinux-utils

2. Append source commands for all .sh files in the cloned directory to .zshrc or .bashrc config file.

For .zshrc:

    2.1 echo "for file in ~/gnulinux-utils/*.sh; do source \$file; done" >> ~/.zshrc

For .bashrc:

    2.2 echo "for file in ~/gnulinux-utils/*.sh; do source \$file; done" >> ~/.bashrc

4. Reload .zshrc to apply the changes:
   source ~/.zshrc

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Usage:

1. audio-and-video-playback

Audio playback

• Enter play audioFileName.mp3
• Enter play in a path that contains audio files and select an audio file from fzf dropdown

NOTE: Valid audio file formats are: .wma, .mp3, .wav, .ogg.

Video playback

• Enter vlc videoFileName.mp4
• Enter vlc and press tab to cycle select video files
• Enter vlc and select vido file from fzf dropdown

NOTE: Valid video file formats are: .mp4', .mkv, .avi, .mov.

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2. cdw

enter cdw in terminal to view and select logged file paths. Paths are logged automatically with cd

3. ls_dynamic

Enter cd as you would normally.

Expected result: clear is ran screen and displays the content of file with eza --icons:

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4. ls_ft

alias lsft="list_specific_file_type_eza" # list files by extension, requires an argument. For example: lsft .txt alias sbft="list_files_sort_extension" #c alias lsfth="list_files_sort_extension_hidden" #Lits only files by extension including hidden files, requires argument. alias lsfta="list_files_and_folders_sort_by_extensions" #require arguments

Lists files by extension

lsft .txt

List only files, sort by extension

sbft .txt

List only files including hidden files, sort by extension

lsfth .txt

List files and folders and sort files by extensions

lsfta .txt

NOTE: See all aliases for this functionality in the script file.

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5. ls_open

• Enter in your terminal:
  ls_open

• Hit enter to navigate

Alernatively: lsnav, nav, open, opendir, dopen, diropen, navigate, folder

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6. mount-unmount-drives

mount_external and unmount_external

Mount

• Enter in your terminal:
  mount_external

• Select the drive you want to mount from th fzf dropdown menu

  

• Provide a drive name.

  

• Drive uccessfully mounted

Unmount

• Enter in your terminal:

unmount_external

• Select the drive you want to unmount from the fzf dropdown menu.

• Unmounted

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7. mv_files

Move all files, excluding folders mvfiles

Move all files and folders mvall

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8. terminal_bookmarks

Set bookmark at current directory

bookmark set 1

NOTE: valid set options are 1 through 12 setting the set bookmark to the corresponding F-key.

Go to bookmark via command

bookmark 1

See list of set bookmarks

bookmark

• NOTE: Known Issue. Formatting is not pretty. Will be fixed.

Go to bookmark via function-key(s)

F1, F2, F3, F4, F5, F6, F7, F8, F9, F10, F11, and F12.

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