pv - Pipe Viewer - is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline. It can be inserted into any normal pipeline between two processes to give a visual indication of how quickly data is passing through, how long it has taken, how near to completion it is, and an estimate of how long it will be until completion.

Remote terminal application that allows roaming, supports intermittent connectivity, and provides intelligent local echo and line editing of user keystrokes.

Nach einer Neuinstallation ist es immer ärgerlich das bestimmte Handgriffe immer wieder gemacht werden müssen. Um dies ein wenig zu vereinfachen habe ich ein kleines Shellscript geschrieben. Es installiert die neuesten Updates, bindet das Multimedia Repository Packman ein und installiert alle notwendigen Codecs um auch mp3 und andere Formate abzuspielen. Vor dem Beginn der Installation hat man die Möglichkeit einige Pakete an und abzuwählen.

The IJ Bash Environment is a packaging of part of the way I set up my own bash + xterm environment in Linux. There isn't much code to it, but a little script code can go a long way, and it appears to be sufficiently original to be worth sharing.

Clint is a module filled with a set of awesome tools for developing commandline applications.

These are answers to frequently asked questions on channel #bash on the freenode IRC network. These answers are contributed by the regular members of the channel (originally heiner, and then others including greycat and r00t), and by users like you. If you find something inaccurate or simply misspelled, please feel free to correct it!

This command acts as a standard Unix filter: it takes a list of FITS file names in input and outputs their headers to stdout. Convenient to browse headers in directories. See fitsort to classify data from a list of FITS headers produced by dfits.

Abook is a text-based addressbook program designed to use with mutt mail client. Abook runs on Linux, FreeBSD and some other UNIXes.

This tutorial assumes no previous knowledge of scripting or programming, but progresses rapidly toward an intermediate/advanced level of instruction . . . all the while sneaking in little nuggets of UNIX® wisdom and lore. It serves as a textbook, a manual for self-study, and a reference and source of knowledge on shell scripting techniques. The exercises and heavily-commented examples invite active reader participation, under the premise that the only way to really learn scripting is to write scripts.

We’re a group of Linux administrators that wanted a place to share bash shell scripts and Linux command tutorials with other Linux users. BashShell.net is the site we’ve chosen to index tutorials, tips and shell scripting lessons as we come across them.

GNU Screen is an often overlooked application which allows you to run programs in a console section, detach from them and then later resume them. They even keep running when you logout.

So, instead I went and did a little rewrite of it. In a simple and pure bash script. I duplicated the functionality of the daily mode (fetch images per day and put them into a daily subdirectory, create html files for them) and didn’t bother with the “fetch a random strip one” as I never used that. Turned out at 276 lines of shell script that can even fetch alt/title and not break on funny characters in them, yay.

It takes years maybe decades to master the commands available to you at the Linux shell prompt. Here are 10 that you will have never heard of or used. They are in no particular order. My favorite is mkfifo.