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Shell Scripts Collections

See SHELLdorado - Links for more info. Shelldorado is a highly recommended website. You should visit it first.

Recommended Links

• Magazines
  • Unix Review shell corner
• Books:
  • UNIX Power Tools contain huge script directory.and script archive (684 kB),
    • Paul Dunne scripts
  • Examples from the book Learning the BASH shell Newham, Cameron; Rosenblatt, Bill (bash.tar.Z, 2 KB)
  • Examples from the book Learning the Korn Shell Rosenblatt, Bill: (ksh.tar.Z, 11 KB)
  • O'Reilly Nutshell KSH debugger (written in KSH).
  • Examples from Bruce Blinn's book Portable Shell Programming: An Extensive Collection of Bourne Shell Examples
• Companies
  • [December 1, 1998] Mortice Kern Systems (MKS) Inc. - MKS Toolkit Examples -- a lot of useful scripts
  • System Administration  -- SCO collection of scripts. A lot of interesting scripts
• Individual sites and pages
  • The armory.com Anonymous FTP Archives shell scripts collection has more than 100 scripts. Great site. Among features scripts:
    • history A more capable history function than the ksh built-in.
    • ucd A cd replacement that has history, directory database lookup, etc.
    • bang Retrieve words from command history; like csh ! but less convenient.
  • SourceForge Snippet Library
  • Steve Kinzler's Home Directory -- a lot of useful scripts
  • [FTP] Scripts by Carlos J. G. Duarte
    • startup files (dd.tar.gz)
    • scripts (scripts.tar.gz)
    • templates (templates.tar.gz)
  • Lucc's Shell Scripts
    • Here are scripts for the Bourne Again Shell (bash). They are mostly for tutorial purposes, as some do not really do anything useful, other than display information, or do simple calculations. Some are more complicated and are useful in the concept of what they were made to do. They are all free to use if you may desire so. (Luke Th. Bullock 1997)
  • Cameron Simpson's cs@zip.com.au Home Page -- both scripts and Perl modules.
  • Steve Kinzler - Home Directory

  • These are some scripts, configuration files and man pages from my Unix/X Window System home environment. They were developed and collected to allow me to maintain an enhanced, consistent home environment across many varieties of Unix and many separate home directories. As such, they generally favor portability over efficiency and restrict themselves to ubiquitous Unix tools when possible, but take advantage of better tools when available. As a systems administrator in a heterogenous environment, I've found them to be useful.

    Feel free to browse and borrow from these files as you wish. I'm afraid there's often little or no documentation or comments, so you may be on your own to figure out what some of them are good for. Most of my scripts (ie, except those in the "Other Authors" section) will only print a usage message if run with a -h flag. Most of the scripts will port "as is" to most versions of Unix and have any configuration options specified at the top of the script file.

• Etc:
  • kshWeb - Scripts, Tools and Utilities
  • Shells and Shell Programming
  • Examples of Bourne shell scripts
  • Shell Games
  • Tower Floor -- Shell Scripts
  • Mortice Kern Systems (MKS) Inc. - MKS Toolkit Examples -- expensive commesial package contains some useful scripts
  • Typhoon Toolkit (software-sysadmin tools) -- most scripts from the provided list can be reimplemented by any competent Unix sysadmin. The is also a Shareware version that provides some insight about the general level of the author and the quality of scripts.

Linux shell scripts, Bash scripting, shell programming

Admin
bkernel	v1.2	builds linux kernels 2.2.xx and 2.4.xx
lowspace	v1.5	notify when space on a device is less then n Megabytes
lowswap	v1.3	notify when free swap memory is less then n Megabytes
monproc	v1.1	monitor processies; print when specified processies are/not running
progsv	v1.2	list version numbers of important programs installed
Compress
unpack2dir	v1.2	unpack zip, tar, tgz, tar.gz, tar.bz2, tar.z to a dir of the same name as archive prefix
zipfile	v1.1	zip a single file
Desktop
xbreak	v1.0	display an X window message when it's time to take a break
xmesg	v1.0	display an X window message on a regular basis
File
cpfound	v1.1	recursively find files and copy to a specified dir
cpverify	v1.3	verify that copied/burned files have been written error free
crfilen	v1.0	create a file n bytes large
filesize	v1.2	print sum of the actual size of files
fnchars	v1.0	print name of file if it has more then n chars in its name
neatname	v1.3	neatly rename files
samesize	v1.0	list files of same size in current dir
sfiles	v1.1	recursively search files for strings; list found files in sorted order
subspace	v1.4	substitute space in a file and dir name with an _
Graphics
2bmp	v1.1	convert image file to bmp format
2jpg	v1.4	convert image file to jpg format
2png	v1.3	convert image file to png format
pngoptim	v1.0	reduce the size of a PNG file if possible
resizeimg	v1.2	resize bitmap image
Misc
loggedin	v1.1	notify when a particular user has logged in
loggedout	v1.1	notify when a particular user has logged out
obfsh	v1.2	shell script obfuscator
rotcmd	v1.0	rotate commands listed in a file if file execution has been interrupted
sman	v1.0	search man page for a string, highlight found strings
srfc	v1.1	search local rfc file for a string, highlight found strings
Network
bytetraf	v1.0	continually display byte traffic on a network interface
killppp	v1.0	kill ppp pid after n seconds|minutes|hours|days of no traffic
Security
rootkitwr	v1.0	chkrootkit wrapper; designed to run at regular intervals
System
timelykill	v1.0	kill process pid after n seconds|minutes|hours|days
whichbin	v1.0	show links and path to executable
Text
insertext	v1.1	insert text file into another file at line n
longl	v1.0	print name of the file that contains lines longer then n chars
pdf2txt	v1.0	convert pdf file to ascii text; write the converted file to disk
ps2txt	v1.0	convert ps file to ascii text; write the converted file to disk
rmblanks	v1.2	remove empty or blank lines from an ascii file; replace the original file
rmdups	v1.0	remove duplicate lines from file or stdin
rmleads	v1.1	remove empty leading spaces from an ascii file; replace input file
rmlines	v1.0	remove lines that contain words stored in a list
word2txt	v1.0	display ms word doc file in ascii format
wraptext	v1.0	wrap text file at 80th column; replace file with the wrapped version
WWW
emailadext	v1.0	extract email addresses from file or stdin
html2txt	v1.1	convert html file to ascii text; write the converted file to disk
htmloptim	v1.2	optimize html file by reducing its size
okurl	v1.0	validate a list of urls for their existence
urlext	v1.2	extract url addresses from file or stdin