You may find all my scripts in my Dotfiles github repository. Just go into .local/scripts. You will only find the finished ones here.
If you wish to quickly launch your emulator games, this is the script for you. Do install the dependencies before running it:
#!/bin/bash
# ask me if I want to play: psp / gamecube / gba / nds
LIBRARY=$(ls "/home/$USER/Games" | dmenu -p "Emulator:")
# show me the appropriate library of games after above choice
GAME=$(ls "/home/$USER/Games/$LIBRARY" | dmenu -p "Game To Launch:")
GAME_PATH="/home/$USER/Games/$LIBRARY"
case $LIBRARY in
psp) PPSSPPQt "$GAME_PATH/$GAME";;
GameCube) dolphin-emu "$GAME_PATH/$GAME";;
gba) visualboyadvance-m "$GAME_PATH/$GAME";;
nds) desmume "$GAME_PATH/$GAME";;
esac
#!/bin/bash
# You can choose the level of difficulty as a parameter
# When starting the game. Like so:
#
# ./mystery --easy
#
# You may also choose normal, hard, extreme, hardcore and insane.
# Default range
RANGE=100
case $1 in
--easy) RANGE=10;;
--normal) RANGE=100;;
--hard) RANGE=1000;;
--extreme) RANGE=10000;;
--hardcore) RANGE=100000;;
--insane) RANGE=1000000;;
esac
echo "the number you are looking for is b/w 1 & $RANGE"
mystery=$((1 + RANDOM % $RANGE))
counter=1
while [[ $number -ne $mystery ]]
do
read -p "Enter a number: " number
if [[ $number -gt $mystery ]]
then echo "it is less"
elif [[ $number -lt $mystery ]]
then echo "it is more"
fi
counter=$(($counter + 1))
done
echo "well done, you found me"
echo "you needed $(( $counter - 1)) shots"
exit 0
Dependencies: + acpi + aplay / espeak (if you uncomment the lines where they are mentioned)
#!/bin/bash
# Add it as a cron job
ac_adapter=$(acpi -a | cut -d' ' -f3 | cut -d- -f1)
for battery in /sys/class/power_supply/BAT?
do
capacity=$(cat "$battery"/capacity)
done
if [[ "$ac_adapter" = "off" ]] && [[ $capacity -lt 99 ]];
then
# aplay r2d2-alarm.wav
notify-send "Warning: Low Battery Power!" "$capacity"
# espeak 'Warning: Low Battery Power!'
else
:
fi
Dependencies: + Moc + Dmenu
#!/bin/bash
# Potential Future Features:
# 1. Polybar module to control moc
# 2. AwesomeWM bar module
# Available moc actions
OPTIONS=(
"Toggle Pause"
"Previous"
"Next"
"Start"
"Stop"
"Info"
)
# Looping through array of moc actions
# && saving value of chosen option into $OPTION
OPTION=$(for i in "${OPTIONS[@]}"
do
echo $i
done | dmenu -p "Moc Controller")
case "$OPTION" in
Toggle\ Pause) mocp --toggle-pause;;
Previous) mocp --previous;;
Next) mocp --next;;
Start) mocp --play;;
Stop) mocp --stop;;
Info) notify-send "Current Title" "$(mocp -i | grep File)";;
esac
For this script to work properly, you need 2 files:
#!/bin/bash
# Get nb of lines in file containing quotes
NB_LINES=$(cat /home/$USER/.local/scripts/quote_generator/quotes | wc -l)
RANDOM_NB=$(( $RANDOM % $NB_LINES ))
# Pick one line in file containing quotes
cat ~/.local/scripts/quote_generator/quotes | head -$RANDOM_NB | tail -1
Here is a list of quotes you can put in a file named quotes:
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.” ― Albert Einstein
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
“Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.” ― Benjamin Franklin Wade
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.” ― Nicolas Chamfort
“Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?” ― Terry Johnson, Insignificance
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.” ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
“May you live every day of your life.” ― Jonathan Swift
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” ― Albert Camus
“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.” ― May Sarton
“If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?” ― Laurence J. Peter
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” ― William Shakespear, Hamlet
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.” ― Isaac Asimov, Foundation
“Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.” ― Plato
“You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.” ― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” ― Benjamin Spock
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.” ― Frank Zappa
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the things you can think up if only you try!” ― Dr. Seuss
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” ― Bertrand Russell
“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.” ― D.H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterley's Lover
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” ― Oscar Wilde
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt, This is My Story
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.” ― Marilyn Monroe
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ― Albert Einstein
“We accept the love we think we deserve.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.” ― Bill Keane
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” ― George Eliot
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
“Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.” ― C.S. Lewis
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ― George Bernard Shaw
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” ― Theodore Roosevelt
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” ― Helen Keller
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be.” ― Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.” ― John Lennon
“I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.” ― Herbert Bayard Swope
“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.” ― W.C. Fields
“Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” ― Albert Einstein
“It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.” ― Herman Melville
“Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get” ― W. P. Kinsella
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” ― Steve Maraboli
“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” ― Truman Capote
“Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.” ― Salvador Dali
“The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you.” ― Bette Midler
“Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” ― Winston S. Churchill
“Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. ” ― Coco Chanel
“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” ― Steve Maraboli
“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.” ― Abraham Lincoln
“Let the improvement of yourself keep you so busy that you have no time to criticize others.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” ― Walt Disney
“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand” ― Hayley Williams
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” ― Dr. Goldsmith
“All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. ” ― Mark Twain
“Sometimes life knocks you on your ass... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.” ― Steve Maraboli
“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” ― Leonardo da Vinci
#!/bin/bash
sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse
# Doesn't work on Gentoo
# Works perfectly on Arch Linux && Ubuntu
Once you have set up offlineimap, notmuch (& optionally msmtp and neomutt ) I advise you to create a CRON job to regularly run this script, every 15 minutes for instance.
Disclaimer : The script works but it is not flawless. I am still trying to fix the error which it throws back when executed from a terminal: “Attempted assignment to a non-variable”. If you know how to fix this, do feel free to contact me with the solution so that I can make it public.
*/15 * * * * /bin/bash /home/$USER/$SCRIPT_LOCATION/mailsync.sh
#!/usr/bin/bash
## Watch for new mail in inboxes declared in ACCOUNTS array
## Replace the $ACCOUNT_NAME variables with the names of your accounts (in
## .Mail directory)
ACCOUNTS=(
/home/$USER/.Mail/$ACCOUNT_NAME/Inbox/new
/home/$USER/.Mail/$GMAIL_ACCOUNT_NAME/INBOX/new
/home/$USER/.Mail/$ACCOUNT_NAME/Inbox/new
)
## Sync mailboxes with server
## And filter them with notmuch
/usr/bin/offlineimap -u quiet && notmuch new
## Check for NEW email
declare -i TOTAL=0
for i in "${ACCOUNTS[@]}"
do
declare -i NEW_MAILS=$(ls $i | wc -l)
$(( "$TOTAL"="$TOTAL"+"$NEW_MAILS" ))
done
## Notify user if there's new mail, else do nothing
if [[ $TOTAL -gt 0 ]]
then
/usr/bin/notify-send "Email Synched:" "You have $TOTAL new email(s)"
else
:
fi
Since doing arithmetic operations in Bash is not the most convenient way, I decided to change strategy and rewrite my script in Perl. I also decided to have this script run at boot (because I like to know if I have got new mail as soon as I turn my pc. As a final piece of advice, I would recommend you to make a symbolic link for this script, this way you can directly call it with one command whenever and wherever you are in your file system.
To make a symbolic link:
# I would recommend to put the bin file in ~/.local/bin
# And have the actual script in ~/.local/repos
# Create these directories if they do not exist
ln -s ~/$SCRIPT_LOCATION/mailsync.pl ~/.local/bin/mailsync
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
# Set up $USER environment variable and mailboxes to check
my $USER = $ENV {'USER'};
my @accounts = ( "yahoo_account1", "yahoo_account2", "gmail_account", );
# Synchronize emails && filter them
system("/usr/bin/offlineimap -u quiet && notmuch new");
# Initialize mail count
my $total_mails = 0;
my $new_mails = 0;
# For each account, add new mails to total
foreach my $account (@accounts){
if ($account eq "gmail") {
$new_mails = `ls /home/$USER/.Mail/$account/INBOX/new | wc -l`;
} else {
$new_mails = `ls /home/$USER/.Mail/$account/Inbox/new | wc -l`;
}
$total_mails += $new_mails;
# Tell me in which mailbox I have mail and how many
if ($new_mails > 0){
system("/usr/bin/notify-send '$account' 'You have $new_mails new emails'");
}
}
# If total new mail is superior than 0, notify me
if ($total_mails > 0){
system("/usr/bin/notify-send 'Email Synched' 'You have $total_mails new emails'");
}
This script is quite simple but it has several dependencies which require some setting up, such as msmtp or offlineimap. Imap is not mandatory, since you really only need to be able to send emails from the command line. Then, a regular email client could be enough. If you wish to do this 100% like me, you will also have to set up neomutt.
Disclaimer: If this script is fully functional, I am still testing and optimizing it. I consider that it does not entirely satisfy my needs so you can expect it to change (sooner or later).
#!/bin/bash
## Set sender and recipient
## They can both be the same
FROM="YOUR_EMAIL"
TO="RECIPIENT_EMAIL"
## Tell me about todos && appointments from today
## && for the next 7 days
EVENTS=$(calcurse --query --from yesterday --days 7)
## Set up a mail file called events.mail
echo "To: $TO" >> events.mail
echo "From: $FROM" >> events.mail
echo "Subject: Hello $USER: Events Of The Day" >> events.mail
echo "$EVENTS" >> events.mail
## Send the email
cat events.mail | msmtp -a default $TO
## Delete the mail file you used
## for the content of the email
rm events.mail
@hourly /usr/bin/notify-send "Next Appointment:" "$(/usr/bin/calcurse --next)"
#!/bin/bash
# Set directories in which script will look for wallpapers
declare -a WALLPAPER_DIRS=(
"custom-wallpapers"
"Desktop-Wallpaper"
"Fate-Stay-Night-Wallpapers"
"Hollow-Knight-Wallpapers"
)
# Set random number so that script won't always look in the same directory
# Divide $RANDOM by size of WALLPAPER_DIRS array
RANDOM_NUM="$(( $RANDOM % ${#WALLPAPER_DIRS[@]} ))"
# Set wallpaper with feh
feh --bg-scale --randomize $HOME/Immagini/${WALLPAPER_DIRS[$RANDOM_NUM]}/*