TPtpoacher·Aug 14, 2023Recommendation phrase
Less 'script', but things that make my terminal experience better more generally:
1. Adding a colorful 'bullet point' to my prompt, to visually differentiate it clearly from other (possibly also coloured) lines:
export PS1="\[\033[32m\]▶\[\033[39m\] $PS1"
2. Installing all of my custom scripts as 'programs' (complete with a bin directory, for easy inclusion in my PATH) under /opt/my for better tracking/management, as opposed to e.g. /usr/local/bin
3. A 'checkupdates' alias which performs update-checks via multiple systems (in my case: apt, flatpak, and my totally awesome misc-updater - see here if interested: https://sr.ht/~tpapastylianou/misc-updater/)
4. libstderred (https://github.com/ku1ik/stderred)
5. The following exports (I'll let you decipher them)
export LESS="-I -R -S -j.5 -#2"
export PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE="AnythingHere
Read the rest
ToSetAsTrue"
# For man-page colorization (also affects things like python help pages)
export LESS_TERMCAP_mb="$(printf "\e[1;31m")"
export LESS_TERMCAP_md="$(printf "\e[1;31m")"
export LESS_TERMCAP_me="$(printf "\e[0m")"
export LESS_TERMCAP_se="$(printf "\e[0m")"
export LESS_TERMCAP_so="$(printf "\e[1;44;33m")"
export LESS_TERMCAP_ue="$(printf "\e[0m")"
export LESS_TERMCAP_us="$(printf "\e[1;32m")"
And now script things (assume omitted shebangs where appropriate):
1. "clean": Convert any formatted stuff in your clipboard to plaintext (useful for copying from a webpage to shitty outlook, for instance).
xsel -ob | xsel -ib
2. "gless": (see https://sr.ht/~tpapastylianou/gless). Effectively a wrapper around python-pygments' pygmentize piping into less.
pygmentize -g -O style=fruity "$@" | less -R
3. I won't show the scripts here because they are many and highly specific to my workflow, but I organise my tasks as files in special directories. Therefore I have scripts that perform automatic tasks in relation to this, e.g. "addtoday", "markasdone", "move to today/month/projects/ongoing/waiting" etc. Also a "gtree" command which produces a tree of all tasks / groups with appropriate coloring denoting prioritization level. Works great for me. If anyone's interested I can try to create a package and share further.
4. "gotodir": Go to the file path saved in your clipboard. Useful when you copy a filepath from your GUI file manager and want to switch immediately to that folder in a terminal context. Needs to be sourced (i.e. `. gotodir`). Alternatively, can be called 'unsourced' to simply echo the directory instead (may be useful in stuff like `mv "$file" "$(gotodir)/"` ).
DIR="$(xsel -ob)"
if test -d "$DIR"; then cd "$DIR"; echo "$DIR"; fi
5. "lastfile": echo the last (in terms of sorting order) file on a directory. Useful when dealing with files that are naturally sorted, like, e.g. dated entries of logs (e.g. "2023-01-01 Meeting Minutes"). Then something like `nano $(lastfile)` will open the latest meeting notes.
ls -1 --color=none | tail -n -1
6. "log": A simple wrapper to opening, e.g., nano on a specific file that you use as your diary, to log a new entry.
nano "/path/to/my/personal/diary.md"
7. "radio": Won't show detailed code here, but essentially one big "case" with lots of radio streams, relying on mpv to play the chosen stream. Accompanied by a .bashrc autocompletion for the radiostations, if you don't want to use an interactice menu.
8. "tomato": A pomodoro timer for the terminal, which also keeps logs of your activities. See https://sr.ht/~tpapastylianou/tomato/