Bash-Snippets: A collection of small bash scripts for heavy terminal users (github.com)

But there are some tools which are compute related and I'd recommend everyone try once:

1) cheat. Total lifesaver. I used to backup my histories but I no longer do so since most commands I use have an example there.

2) qrify looks good, not sure how often i'll use.

About crypt: I'd suggest installing openssl and using tools in there. Crypto is hard to get right, not to dissuade anyone from trying to create but as an end user, always use something widely used.

And for Pandora, there is Pianobar, a console based pandora player: https://github.com/PromyLOPh/pianobar

(Note: it's mostly an educational tool; for example, you could enable an option to make climate print the actual command before executing so that you can learn your way around using the shell effectively.)

EDIT: ...oh, it sends your data to a public service, which is not what I would prefer. But the cleverness of the service (rendering the pixels via ASCII) seems like it would make a great local utility.

Another EDIT: the encoding lib is LGPL, support for ASCII rendering contributed by Ralf Ertzinger -- https://github.com/fukuchi/libqrencode

  $ llbin | nlines
  738

I've been keeping my bash scrips in github gists but I like this organization as well.

I'd just drop the ping to google entirely. If wget/curl/fetch fail, so be it. No need to introduce additional slowness for the small chance internet isn't working.

Until then I had used bash exclusively for years. Now I will absolutely never go back.

The most beloved bash script collection S2

:(

I would be curious to know why - if it's just bash, Cygwin has great support for it.

`movies` and `ytview` scripts are broken, so I've stopped testing and deleted the whole bundle. It's faster for me to rewrite these utilities from scratch using my favourite languages than fixing and maintaining awful bash scripts.

Bash is good at quick experimenting, internal tooling, etc, but nowadays it's a shame to release scripts written in it in public. Use Ruby, Python, Lua, D, Nim, [tons of other convenient languages] instead. Even modern c++ is more maintainable.

  # Encrypt a file
  function encrypt() { openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -a -in $1 -out $2 ; }

  # Decrypt a file
  function decrypt() { openssl enc -aes-256-cbc -d -a -in $1 -out $2 ; }

  # Fetch weather forecast
  function weather() { curl "http://wttr.in/$1"; }

  # Convert input text into a QR code
  function qrify() { curl "http://qrenco.de/$1"; }

  # Fetch information about a stock
  function stock() { curl -s "https://www.alphavantage.co/query?function=GLOBAL_QUOTE&symbol=AAPL&apikey=KPCCCRJVMOGN9L6T" | awk '/\. / {$1=""; gsub("\"|,",""); print $0}'; }

  # Conversion rate between currencies
  function currency { curl -s "http://api.fixer.io/latest?base=$1&symbols=$2" | grep -Eo "[0-9]*[.][0-9]*"; }

  # Fetch movie info
  function movie { curl -s "http://www.omdbapi.com/?t=${1/ /+}&apikey=946f500a" | jq ". | {Title, Year, Ratings:[.Ratings[1].Source, .Ratings[1].Value ], Rated, Genre, Director, Actors, Plot}" | awk -F "\"" '/:|%|Tomato/ {print $2 $3 $4}' | sed '/: \[/d' | perl  -pe 's/,\n/: /'; }

  # Fetch cheatsheet
  function cheat() { curl "http://cheat.sh/$1"; }

  # Fetches DNS nameserver ???
  function dns_nameserver() { cat /etc/resolv.conf | grep -i ^nameserver | cut -d ' ' -f2; }

  # Fetches WAN ip address ???
  function wan_search() { dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com ; }

  # Show actual destinatoin of a tinyurl. Eg: untiny "tinyurl.com/savepii"
  function untiny() { curl -s "http://x.datasig.io/short?url=http://$1" | awk -F '"' '/d