Autostart did not detect properly if some processes were actually running or not. This commit fixes it and only launches programs marked to run only once only when they are not already running. select-pape did not set its cache file in the correct location, this is now fixed
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Executable scripts
- Presentation
- Autostart
- cli utilities
- Emacsmail
- Media
- Plock
- Rofi utilities
- Wallpaper utilities
- Weather
Presentation
This file will present all the executable scripts I wrote. It is also their original source code, all the following code snippets are exported and tangled from this file to the actual executables.
Autostart
Because I sometimes switch from window manager to window manager, creating a script that handles by itself autostarting things for me is way easier than rewriting every time the autostart part of my configuration. As you can every instance will be launched asynchronously, and only if there is no other instance of said command running.
set-screens
is a custom script declared below.
Command | Arguments | Run once? |
---|---|---|
set-screens |
no | |
pumopm |
yes | |
xfce-polkit |
yes | |
xss-lock |
plock |
yes |
picom |
--experimental-backends |
yes |
xidlehook |
--not-when-audio --not-when-fullscreen --timer 3600 lock '' |
yes |
nm-applet |
yes | |
numlockx |
on |
yes |
mpc |
stop |
no |
xwallpaper |
--zoom (cat $HOME/.cache/wallpaper) |
no |
(mapconcat (lambda (start-command)
(let* ((command (s-replace "~" "" (nth 0 start-command)))
(arguments (s-replace "~" "" (nth 1 start-command)))
(once? (string= "yes" (nth 2 start-command))))
(if once?
(format "pgrep -x %s 2&>/dev/null || echo (%s) 2&>/dev/null"
command
(s-collapse-whitespace (format "%s %s & && disown"
command
arguments)))
(format "%s %s &" command arguments))))
table
"\n")
set-screens & pgrep -x pumopm 2&>/dev/null || echo (pumopm & && disown) 2&>/dev/null pgrep -x xfce-polkit 2&>/dev/null || echo (xfce-polkit & && disown) 2&>/dev/null pgrep -x xss-lock 2&>/dev/null || echo (xss-lock plock & && disown) 2&>/dev/null pgrep -x picom 2&>/dev/null || echo (picom --experimental-backends & && disown) 2&>/dev/null pgrep -x xidlehook 2&>/dev/null || echo (xidlehook --not-when-audio --not-when-fullscreen --timer 3600 lock '' & && disown) 2&>/dev/null pgrep -x nm-applet 2&>/dev/null || echo (nm-applet & && disown) 2&>/dev/null pgrep -x numlockx 2&>/dev/null || echo (numlockx on & && disown) 2&>/dev/null mpc stop & xwallpaper --zoom (cat $HOME/.cache/wallpaper) &
set -l PATH $PATH /usr/lib/xfce-polkit
<<autostart-gen()>>
cli utilities
Backup
backup
is a very simple, oneliner script that will create a local copy of a file and add the date at which it was copied in the filename. You can see its source code here:
cp -r $argv[1] $argv[1].bak.(date +"%Y%m%d%H%M%S")
Development
Cnew
cnew
is a small utility script similar to but simpler than cppnew that creates a CMake template C project from the template that already exists in ~/dev/templateC. If no argument was passed, display an error message and exit.
if ! count $argv > /dev/null
echo "Missing argument: PROJECT" && return -1
end
Pass the first argument to a switch statement.
switch "$argv[1]"
If the argument is -h
or --help
, then display the help message and exit the script normally.
case -h --help
man ~/dev/fishfunctions/cnew.man
exit 0
Else, the argument is the name of the project the user wants to create.
case '*'
set -g project_name $argv[1]
Let’s close the switch statement.
end
Now, let’s copy the template where the user is executing cnew
from, give it the name of the project and move to the project.
cp -r ~/dev/templateC $argv[1]
cd $argv[1]
The default files have a placeholder for the name of the project. Let’s replace these placeholders with the project’s name.
sed -i "s/PROJECTNAME/$argv[1]/g" CMakeLists.txt
sed -i "s/PROJECTNAME/$argv[1]/g" README.org
sed -i "s/CPROJECTNAME/$argv[1]/g" doc/Doxyfile
Now, let’s create a git repository and initialize it.
git init
git add .
git commit -m "initial commit"
And we’re done!
Dart Language Server
Spacemacs' recommendations on how to use Dart with LSP is outdated, since dart_language_server
is obsolete. As recommended by the repo owner, we should launch instead the following code:
/usr/bin/dart $DART_SDK/snapshots/analysis_server.dart.snapshot --lsp
So, instead of using the obsolete executable, instead we will be calling the analysis server as requested.
UpdateFlutter
This is a simple utility to be ran when the flutter
package is updated.
sudo chown -R :flutterusers /opt/flutter
sudo chmod -R g+w /opt/flutter
sudo chmod a+rw /opt/flutter/version
sudo chown $USER:(id -g $USER) /opt/flutter/bin/cache
set-screens
set-screens
is a small script that allows the user to automatically set up an external monitor. First, let’s set some variables so we don’t have to type in hidden places some values that should be easily modifiable.
set internal "eDP1"
set external "HDMI1"
Now, let’s set the DETECTEDSCREEN
variable with a simple grep
. If the variable turns out to be empty, this means the display was not detected. However, if it’s not, then it will be an array with its second value that holds the maximum resolution the display can handle. It needs to be passed through awk
in order to get only the resolution itself and not the refresh rate, but once we’ve got that, we can set our external monitor as the main monitor with its maximum resolution. i3 is also restarted in order to properly display the wallpaper and Polybar on the new screen.
set externaldisplay (xrandr -q --current | grep -A 1 -i "$external connected")
if test -n "$externaldisplay"
set resolution (echo $externaldisplay[2] | awk '{$1=$1;print $1}')
xrandr --output "$external" --primary --auto --mode "$resolution" --right-of "$internal"
end
sshbind
Something that I did not know for quite some time but that is actually crazy useful about SSH is its ability to bind locally the port of a remote machine, and vice versa. The syntax is actually very simple, but I prefer a more intuitive way of writing it. Its usage is sshbind PORT FROMHOST TOHOST
.
ssh -L $argv[1]:$argv[3]:$argv[1] $argv[2] -N
Starwars
This is a one-liner that allows you to watch Star Wars episode 4 in ASCII art in your terminal. Here is the code:
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Toggle touchpad tapping
For some reasons, my firmware does not recognize the function key for toggling the touchpad. I’m not going to really complain about it since it lets me program it like I want. Since I often don’t need to completely deactivate the touchpad, I’ll instead toggle whether tapping is enabled or not when pressing XF86TouchpadToggle
. And for that, I need this small script that will actually toggle it, and it will be used in my window manager configuration.
First let’s declare some variables to make this script more personal. With my current computer (a Gazelle by System76), the name of my touchpad is the following:
set TPNAME "ELAN0412:00 04F3:3162 Touchpad"
Let’s now get the identifier of the touchpad for xinput
:
set TPID (xinput list | grep $TPNAME | awk '{print $6}' | sed 's|id=\(.*\)|\1|g')
Now, let’s detect the current status of the touchpad:
set TPSTATUS (xinput list-props $TPID | grep "Tapping Enabled" | \
grep -v "Default" | awk '{print $5}')
This will set TPSTATUS
either to 0
, meaning tapping is disabled, or to 1
, meaning it’s enabled. I will consider any other value as being disabled.
test [[ $TPSTATUS = "1" ]] && set NEWTPSTATUS 0 || set NEWTPSTATUS 1
Finally, let’s update the touchpad’s options:
xinput set-prop $TPNAME "libinput Tapping Enabled" $NEWTPSTATUS
Wacom setup
I made a small and quick utility to set up my Wacom tablet so it is only bound to one screen.
Set our variables
Let’s first declare our function that will be called to set our variables.
function set_device
We need some variables in order to correctly set our tablet. First, let’s get declare what the name of our tablet is, and what the name of its touchpad is.
set -g DEVICE "Wacom USB Bamboo PAD Pen stylus"
set -g DEVICETOUCH "Wacom USB Bamboo PAD Finger touch"
We will also modify two settings: the speed of the cursor on the touchpad, and the scroll speed. Let’s declare the name of these two settings.
set -g WACOMPROPTOUCHSPEED "Device Accel Velocity Scaling"
set -g WACOMPROPSCROLLPSEED "ScrollDistance"
To get the correct values for the area it can cover, we’ll need to reset our tablet.
xsetwacom set "$DEVICE" ResetArea
Now we can get the X and Y areas.
set -l AREATOT (xsetwacom get "$DEVICE" Area)
set -g AREAX (echo $AREATOT | awk '{print $3}')
set -g AREAY (echo $AREATOT | awk '{print $4}')
Now let’s close our function.
end
Select our screen
This function will allow us to select the screen on which the tablet will be active. We can also select the option “desktop” so that all screens are selected. Let’s declare our function.
function set_screen
First, let’s set what screens are available, including the desktop option.
set CONNECTED_DISPLAYS (xrandr -q --current | \
sed -n 's/^\([^ ]\+\) connected .*/\1/p') desktop
Now, let’s select the one we wish to use using rofi.
set -g SCREEN (for d in $CONNECTED_DISPLAYS
echo $d
end | rofi -dmenu -i -p "Select your dispaly" | tr -d '\n')
Now, let’s get the resolution of our selected screen.
set -l LINE (xrandr -q --current | if [ "$SCREEN" = "desktop" ]
sed -n 's/^Screen 0:.*, current \([0-9]\+\) x \([0-9]\+\),.*/\1 \2/p'
else
sed -n "s/^$SCREEN"' connected \(primary \)\{0,1\}\([0-9]\+\)x\([0-9]\+\)+.*/\2 \3/p'
end)
From that, let’s get the vertical and horizontal resolution of our screen.
echo $LINE | read -g WIDTH HEIGHT
If any of our WIDTH
ou HEIGHT
it empty, we’ll have to abort the script.
if test -z $WIDTH || test -z $HEIGHT
exit 1
end
Let’s close our function now.
end
Adjust the tablet
This function will take care of adjusting our tablet to our screen. Let’s declare our function.
function adjust_device
If our screen is too high or too wide for our tablet, we will have to adjust the height or width of the area used by the tablet. So let’s get the theoretical new height and width of the area.
set RATIOAREAY (math ceil \($AREAX \* $HEIGHT \/ $WIDTH\))
set RATIOAREAX (math ceil \($AREAY \* $WIDTH \/ $HEIGHT\))
Now, if the current height of the tablet’s area is greater than the theoretical new area, it means the current area is too high. Otherwise, it should be the other way around. Let’s set NEWAREAX
and NEWAREAY
that will be used to set the new area for the tablet.
if test $AREAY -gt $RATIOAREAY
set -g NEWAREAX $AREAX
set -g NEWAREAY $RATIOAREAY
else
set -g NEWAREAX $RATIOAREAX
set -g NEWAREAY $AREAY
end
Alright, now let’s set the new area with these new variables.
xsetwacom set "$DEVICE" Area 0 0 $NEWAREAX $NEWAREAY
xsetwacom set "$DEVICE" MapToOutput "$SCREEN"
Let’s slow down the cursor’s speed on the touchpad.
xinput set-float-prop $DEVICETOUCH $WACOMPROPTOUCHSPEED 0.5
Let’s also slow down the scroll speed of the touchpad.
xsetwacom set $DEVICETOUCH $WACOMPROPSCROLLPSEED "90"
Now, let’s close the function.
end
Lauch the functions
Back to the main body of the script, we can now launch the functions sequencially.
set_device
set_screen
adjust_device
Emacsmail
This short script is used in my ~/.local/share/applications/mu4e.desktop
file in order to send to Emacs any mailto:
requests made in my system.
emacsclient -c --eval "(browse-url-mail \"$@\")"
Media
mp42webm
This function allows me to convert easily an mp4 video to the webm format. Nothing too fancy here.
ffmpeg -i $argv[1] -c:v libvpx -crf 10 -b:v 1M -c:a libvorbis $argv[1].webm
youtube-dl wrappers
ytplay
ytplay
is a simple script I’ve written that allows me to play in mpv any YouTube video at the desired resolution. The script relies on dmenu
(or rofi
in dmenu-mode), youtube-dl
and of course mpv
itself.
set URL (rofi -dmenu -i -p "Video URL")
if test -n "$URL"
set FORMAT \
(youtube-dl --list-formats "$URL" | \
egrep "webm.*[0-9]+x[0-9]+" | \
awk '{print $3 " " $1}' | \
sort -gu | \
rofi -dmenu -i -p "Resolution" | \
string split " ")
set FCODE $FORMAT[2]
mpv --ytdl-format=$FCODE+bestaudio/best "$URL"
end
I’ll even add a .desktop
entry for this script:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Version=1.0
Name=ytplay (YouTube in mpv)
Comment=Play YouTube videos in mpv
Exec=/home/phundrak/.local/bin/ytplay
Path=/home/phundrak/.local/bin
Terminal=false
Categories=Media
ytdl - a youtube-dl
wrapper
This script is a wrapper around youtube-dl
which I use mainly for archiving YouTube videos on my NAS (at the time I’m writing this, I have already 2.1TB worth of videos archived). The principle behind this script is quite simple: I want to avoid as much as possible to redownload any video already downloaded in order to avoid pinging too much YouTube’s servers, 429 Too Many Requests errors are really annoying, and it comes really early when you have only a couple of new videos to download among the few 14k videos already downloaded.
Be aware this script was written for the Fish shell (3.1.0 and above), and makes use of youtube-dl 2020.03.24 and above, Fish getopts and ripgrep.
Setting default values
Some variables in this script will have default values, we do not want to have a mile-long command each time we wish to download a single video. We’ll also set some global variables that won’t change:
Variable Name | Default Value | String? |
---|---|---|
YTDL_SHARED_DIR | $HOME/.local/share/ytdl | no |
FORMAT_DEFAULT | %(uploader)s/%(upload_date)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s | yes |
DOWNFILE_DEFAULT | $YTDL_SHARED_DIR/downloaded | no |
ERRFILE_DEFAULT | $YTDL_SHARED_DIR/video-errors | no |
LOGFILE_DEFAULT | $YTDL_SHARED_DIR/ytdl.log | no |
PREFFERED_FORMAT | bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestvideo+bestaudio | yes |
VERSION | 0.3 | yes |
There is one more default variable pointing to ytdl’s root directory which depends on whether the videos directory has a French or English name:
if test -d "$HOME/Vidéos"
set -g ROOTDIR_DEFAULT "$HOME/Vidéos" # French name
else
set -g ROOTDIR_DEFAULT "$HOME/Videos" # English name
end
(mapconcat (lambda (var)
(let ((varname (car var))
(varvalue (cadr var))
(string? (string= (nth 2 var) "yes")))
(format "set -g %-16s %s" varname (if string? (format "\"%s\"" varvalue)
varvalue))))
vars
"\n")
set -g YTDL_SHARED_DIR $HOME/.local/share/ytdl set -g FORMAT_DEFAULT "%(uploader)s/%(upload_date)s - %(title)s.%(ext)s" set -g DOWNFILE_DEFAULT $YTDL_SHARED_DIR/downloaded set -g ERRFILE_DEFAULT $YTDL_SHARED_DIR/video-errors set -g LOGFILE_DEFAULT $YTDL_SHARED_DIR/ytdl.log set -g PREFFERED_FORMAT "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/bestvideo+bestaudio" set -g VERSION "0.3"
<<ytdl-default-vars-make()>>
<<ytdl-default-vars-root>>
We’ll also create the directory pointed at by YTDL_SHARED_DIR
if it doesn’t exist already:
mkdir -p $YTDL_SHARED_DIR
Help message
The next step is displaying the help message for the script. For that, just a long string echo’d will do, wrapped in the function _ytdl_help
.
function _ytdl_help
echo "Usage: ytdl [OPTION]... URL [URL]...
-4, --ipv4
Download with forced IPv4
Default: no
-6, --ipv6
Download with forced IPv6
Default: no
-a, --batch-file <file>
File containing URLs to download, one URL per line. Lines starting with
'#', ';' or ']' are considered as comments and ignored.
Default: None
-c, --id-cache <file>
File containing the video IDs that were already downloaded, one ID per
line.
Default: $DOWNFILE_DEFAULT
-d, --directory <dir>
Root directory in which to download videos.
Default: $ROOTDIR_DEFAULT
-e, --error-file <file>
File containing the IDs of videos that failed to download, one ID per
line
Default: $ERRFILE_DEFAULT
-f, --format <format>
Format name for downloaded videos, including path relative to root
directory
Default: $FORMAT_DEFAULT
-l, --logs <file>
File in which to store logs.
Default: $LOGFILE_DEFAULT
-V, --verbose
Show verbose output
Default: no
-v, --version
Show version of ytdl.
-h, --help
Shows this help message"
end
We also have the function _ytdl_version
to display the current version of ytdl
:
function _ytdl_version
echo "ytdl 0.3, developped for fish 3.1.0 and youtube-dl 2020.03.24 or newer"
echo "requires Fish getopts <https://github.com/jorgebucaran/fish-getopts>"
echo "and ripgrep <https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep>"
end
Arguments Handling
The function _ytdl_parse_ops
is a little bit trickier: we use getopts
to parse the arguments passed to the script in order to get some preferences from the user. Here is a quick reference on what options are available and what they do:
Short | Long | Takes a value? | Associated Variable | Default Value | What it does |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
4 | ipv4 | no | IPV4 | None | Force IPv4 |
6 | ipv6 | no | IPV6 | None | Force IPv6 |
a | batch-file | yes | FILE | None | Batch file |
c | cache | yes | DOWNFILE | $DOWNFILE_DEFAULT | Cache file |
d | directory | yes | ROOTDIR | $ROOTDIR_DEFAULT | Root directory |
e | error-file | yes | ERRFILE | $ERRFILE_DEFAULT | Error logs |
f | format | yes | FORMAT | $FORMAT_DEFAULT | Filename format |
l | logs | yes | LOGFILE | $LOGFILE_DEFAULT | Logs |
V | verbose | no | VERBOSE | 1 | Verbose output |
v | version | command | None | None | Script version |
h | help | command | None | None | Display this message |
We can also pass individual YouTube URLs without any options or switches associated to them, they will be downloaded as part of a single queue.
(mapconcat (lambda (arg)
(let* ((short (format "%s" (nth 0 arg)))
(long (nth 1 arg))
(arg? (string= "yes" (nth 2 arg)))
(var (unless (string= "None" (nth 3 arg))
(nth 3 arg))))
(format "case %s %s\n\t%s"
short long
(if var (format "set -g %s %s" var
(if arg? "$value" ""))
(format "_ytdl_%s && exit"
(if (string= "h" short) "help" "version"))))))
args
"\n")
case 4 ipv4 set -g IPV4 case 6 ipv6 set -g IPV6 case a batch-file set -g FILE $value case c cache set -g DOWNFILE $value case d directory set -g ROOTDIR $value case e error-file set -g ERRFILE $value case f format set -g FORMAT $value case l logs set -g LOGFILE $value case V verbose set -g VERBOSE case v version _ytdl_version && exit case h help _ytdl_help && exit
The following shows how getopts
is used to catch the options and switches passed to the script:
getopts $argv | while read -l key value
switch $key
<<ytdl-arg-handling-gen()>>
case _
for v in $value
set -g VIDEOS $VIDEOS $v
end
end
end
(let* ((args (-filter (lambda (arg)
(let* ((var (unless (string= "None" (nth 3 arg)) (nth 3 arg)))
(default (format "%s" (nth 4 arg)))
(default (unless (string= "None" default) default)))
(and var default)))
args)))
(mapconcat (lambda (arg)
(let* ((var (nth 3 arg))
(default (format "%s" (nth 4 arg))))
(format "if set -q $%s\n\tset -g %s %s\nend"
var var default)))
args
"\n"))
if set -q $DOWNFILE set -g DOWNFILE $DOWNFILE_DEFAULT end if set -q $ROOTDIR set -g ROOTDIR $ROOTDIR_DEFAULT end if set -q $ERRFILE set -g ERRFILE $ERRFILE_DEFAULT end if set -q $FORMAT set -g FORMAT $FORMAT_DEFAULT end if set -q $LOGFILE set -g LOGFILE $LOGFILE_DEFAULT end if set -q $VERBOSE set -g VERBOSE 1 end
Some values need to be set to their default, so let’s assign them their value if no user value was passed:
<<ytdl-arg-set-default-value-gen()>>
set -g FORMAT "$ROOTDIR/$FORMAT"
Both these code blocks are executed in _ytdl_parse_ops
:
function _ytdl_parse_ops
<<ytdl-getopts>>
<<ytdl-arg-set-default-value>>
end
Logging
_ytdl_log
is a very simple function used for logging information for the user in the file pointed to by LOGFILE
. The first argument the function should receive is its log level. I generally use either "INFO"
or "ERR"
. The second argument is the message to log.
function _ytdl_log
set -l INFOLEVEL $argv[1]
set -l MSG $argv[2]
set -l LOG (printf "[%s] %s %s\n" $INFOLEVEL (date +"%F %T") $MSG)
printf "%s\n" $LOG >> $LOGFILE
if test $VERBOSE -eq 1
echo $LOG
end
end
Download a Single Video
In order to download a single video, a simple function has been written for this that will display when downloaded how far it is down the list of videos to be downloaded and it will add its ID to the file listing all videos downloaded. The script will also try to download the video according to the PREFFERED_FORMAT
variable, but if the download fails it will download the default format selected by youtube-dl
. If both downloads fail, the ID of the video will be added to the list of failed videos. If one of the downloads succeeds, it will remove the ID from the list of failed downloads.
The first argument of the function is the video ID from YouTube, the second argument is the position of the video in the queue, and the third argument is the queue length –can be the amount of videos in a whole YouTube channel, the amount of videos in a playlist, or simply the amount of YouTube URLs passed as arguments to the script.
function _ytdl_download_video
set ID $argv[1]
_ytdl_log "INFO" (printf "Downloading video with ID $ID (%4d/%4d)" $argv[2] $argv[3])
if youtube-dl -f $PREFFERED_FORMAT -ciw -o $FORMAT "https://youtube.com/watch?v=$ID"
echo $ID >> $DOWNFILE
else if youtube-dl -ciw -o $FORMAT "https://youtube.com/watch?v=$ID"
echo $ID >> $DOWNFILE
else
_ytdl_log "ERR" "Could not download $VIDEO"
echo $ID >> $ERRFILE
end
end
Note that this function is not meant to be called without any checks before. It is meant to be called by _ytdl_download_queue
described below.
Download a Queue of Videos
One of the main goals of this tool is to check if a video has already been downloaded. This is why, as you will see below, we use ripgrep to check if the ID of the video we want to download is already present in the list of downloaded videos. If not, it will then be downloaded though _ytdl_download_video
described above.
function _ytdl_download_queue
for i in (seq (count $argv))
rg -- $argv[$i] $DOWNFILE 2&> /dev/null
if test $status -ne 0
_ytdl_download_video $argv[$i] $i (count $argv)
end
end
end
Download Videos From Arguments
The main aim of this function is to transform the URLs contained in the arguments passed to the script to a list of IDs usable later on by ytdl
.
function _ytdl_download_arg_urls
set -g IDs
for VIDEO in $argv
_ytdl_log "Info" "Getting video ID for $VIDEO"
set -g IDs $IDs (youtube-dl --get-id $VIDEO)
end
_ytdl_download_queue $IDs
end
Download Videos From a Batch File
The final function to declare before the main body of the script is _ytdl_download_batch
: it will look for each line, ignoring the ones beginning by #
, ;
and ]
(just like youtube-dl
) and will download them, assuming these are channel URLs or playlist URLs, however it should also work with direct video URLs.
What this function does is for each line, it will fetch the entierty of the video IDs found in a playlist or channel. Then, it will look each ID up the list of already downloaded videos and will add all new IDs to a queue of videos to be downloaded. It will then pass each new video ID to _ytdl_download_video
directly.
function _ytdl_download_batch
set -q $FILE
if test $status -eq 1
set -g NEW
set CHANNELS (cat $FILE | grep -vE "#|;|\]")
for c in $CHANNELS
_ytdl_log "INFO" "Getting IDs for channel $c"
set IDS (youtube-dl --get-id $c)
_ytdl_log "INFO" "Fetching new videos from channel"
for i in (seq (count $IDS))
printf "\rsearching (%d/%d)" $IDn (count $IDS)
rg -- $IDS[$i] $DOWNFILE 2&> /dev/null
if test $status -ne 0
set -g NEW $IDS[$i] $NEW
end
end
printf "\n"
end
for i in (seq (count $NEW))
_ytdl_download_video $NEW[$i] $i (count $NEW)
end
end
end
Main Body
Now that we have all our functions declared, let’s call them! First, we need to parse our arguments. We’ll then download all files passed as arguments. Finally, we’ll download videos, playlists and channels specified from a batch file.
_ytdl_parse_ops $argv
_ytdl_download_arg_urls $VIDEOS
_ytdl_download_batch
And that’s all! If you’re interested with a very simple interface for downloading one video once, I wrote a small rofi-ytdl
script that calls the rofi
utility to specify a single link and download it.
Plock
plock
is a simple script that locks the screen with i3lock
while setting as the background image of the locked screen a corrupted screenshot of the screen before it was locked.
set TMPBG /tmp/screen.png
scrot $TMPBG
corrupter -add 0 $TMPBG $TMPBG
i3lock -t -e -f -i $TMPBG
rm $TMPBG
Rofi utilities
askpass
Askpass is a simple script that invokes rofi
as a way to get from a GUI the user’s sudo password. It is inspired by this original tool, rewritten in fish and with rofi support instead of dmenu. As you can see, this is a oneliner if we ignore the initial shebang. This executable is pointed at by the
rofi -dmenu -password -no-fixed-num-lines -p (printf $argv[1] | sed s/://)
awiki
awiki
is a simple script used with rofi
that relies on the arch-wiki-docs
package in order to provide the user a way to quickly find and display any English page from the Arch Wiki in a browser. The advantage of using this over the wiki-search
utility from the arch-wiki-lite
package is you get instant suggestion in rofi using fuzzy-search. The downside is rofi will only help you find pages by their title, and it will not help you find keywords in the content of said pages.
The first step is to create the list of all the pages that are currently stored on disk. arch-wiki-docs
stores them in /usr/share/doc/arch-wiki/html/en
. A simple ls
piped in three sed
will give us a list of page titles. We then pipe that into rofi in dmenu mode in order to choose the page we want to display. By the way, setting the location of the HTML files will come in handy later.
set WLOCATION /usr/share/doc/arch-wiki/html/en/
set WPAGE (/bin/ls $WLOCATION | \
sed -e 's/_/ /g' -e 's/\.html$//' -e 's|.*/\(.*\)|\1|' | \
rofi -dmenu -p "Arch Wiki" -i)
set WPAGE (echo $WPAGE | sed -r 's/\s+/_/g')
Now, all I need to do is to send this list into rofi and tell it to open the result with our favorite browser with xdg-open
.
xdg-open $WLOCATION$WPAGE.html
Emoji picker
The emoji picker is a simple fish script that uses rofi and ~/.config/emoji.txt to provide a small, local search for emojis. Once the emoji is selected, it is copied to the clipboard using xclipboard
.
grep -v "#" ~/.config/emoji.txt | rofi -dmenu -p "Select emoji" -i | \
awk '{print $1}' | tr -d '\n' | xclip -selection clipboard
Also, let’s send a notification telling the user the emoji has been copied!
set emoji (xclip -o -selection clipboard | tr -d '\n')
test -z "$emoji" && notify-send "No emoji copied" -u low && exit
set -a emoji "copied to clipboard"
notify-send -u low $emoji
It is inspired from this video from Luke Smith, rewritten in Fish.
Partition mounting and unmounting
Rofi-mount
rofimount
is a script inspired by this one, based on dmenu, which interactively asks the user what to mount, and where to mount it. What I did was replace dmenu with rofi, and fix a couple of bugs I encountered in the original script.
Get the mountable elements
begin
What the script does first is detect everything that can be mounted. Between a begin
and end
, let’s set LFS
as a local variable. This si in order to get sane variables in the current block.
set -l LFS
Now, let’s detect the amount of mountable Android filesystems, and if any are detected, let’s read them into a global variable.
set -l a (math (jmtpfs -l | wc -l) - 2)
test $a -ge 0 && jmtpfs -l 2> /dev/null | tail -n $a | read -zg anddrives
We’ll do the same for external and internal drives and partitions that can be mounted here.
lsblk -rpo "name,type,size,mountpoint" | \
awk '$2=="part"&&$4==""{printf "%s (%s)\n",$1,$3}' | \
read -zg usbdrives
Finally, we look for any CD drive that could be mounted on our device.
blkid /dev/sr0 | awk '{print $1}' | sed 's/://' | read -z cddrives
And that’s the end of our first block!
end
Alright, we’ll save what kind on drives we can mount in a temporary file called /tmp/drives
. We’ll make sure it’s blank by erasing it then creating it again with touch
, like so. The -f
flag on rm
is here so we get no error if we try to delete a file that doesn’t exist (yet).
set -g TMPDRIVES /tmp/drives
rm -f $TMPDRIVES
touch $TMPDRIVES
Now, let’s write what type of drives we can mount in this temporary file.
test -n "$usbdrives" && echo "USB" >> $TMPDRIVES
test -n "$cddrives" && echo "CD" >> $TMPDRIVES
test -n "$anddrives" && echo "Android" >> $TMPDRIVES
Now, we want to declare where to look for mount directories. For now, we’ll only look in /media
, but you can add more if you wish.
set -g basemount /media
Get the mount point
Now, let’s declare a function that will allow us to chose the drive we want to mount.
function getmount
First, we want to get our mount point. We’ll run a find
command on each of the directories listed in $basemount
to look for folders on which our drive could be mounted. This list will be passed to rofi from which we will chose our mount point.
set -g mp (for d in $basemount
find $d -maxdepth 5 -type d
end | rofi -dmenu -i -p 'Type in mount point.')
We should verify that something has been actually selected, otherwise we should abort the script.
if test -z $mp || test $mp = ""
return 1
end
Now, if the selected mount point does not exist, we’ll ask the user whether the directory should be created. If no, the script will abort. If yes, an attempt will be made at creating the directory as the user; if that fails, a new attempt will be made as sudo.
if test ! -d $mp
switch (printf "No\\nYes" | rofi -dmenu -i -p "$mp does not exist. Create it?")
case 'Yes'
mkdir -p $mp || sudo -A mkdir -p $mp
case '*'
return 1
end
end
Finally, let’s close the function
end
Mount a USB drive, hard drive or partition
Alright, we want to mount a partition that answers by the name of /dev/sdXX
, how do we do that? Let’s create first the function mountusb
that will take care of it for us.
function mountusb
Now, the first thing we want to do is select the partition we want to mount. Remember, we stored those in $usbdrives
earlier, so let’s pipe them into rofi so we can chose from it. Also, awk
will get their path in /dev
.
set -g chosen (echo $usbdrives | \
rofi -dmenu -i -p "Mount which drive?" | \
awk '{print $1}')
As usual after a user selection, let’s verify something has actually been selected. If not, let’s abort the script.
test -z $chosen && return 1
Now, let’s select the mount point of our partition. We’ll call the function getmount
described in Get the mount point to select it.
getmount
Let’s verify the variable mp
set in getmount
is not empty, otherwise abort the script.
test -z $mp && return 1
Now, let’s mount it! We’ll use a switch which will detect the filesystem used so we know how to mount the partition.
switch (lsblk -no "fstype" $chosen)
We have two named case: vfat
filesystems.
case "vfat"
sudo -A mount -t vfat $chosen $mp -o rw,umask=0000
And ntfs
filesystems.
case "ntfs"
sudo -A mount -t ntfs $chosen $mp -o rw,umask=0000
Else, we’ll let mount
determine which filesystem is used by the partition (generally ext4
).
case '*'
sudo -A mount $chosen $mp
We’ll also run a chown
on this newly mounted filesystem so the user can access it without any issues.
sudo -A chown -R $USER:(id -g $USER) $mp
Let’s close the switch block and send a notification the partition has been mounted.
end && notify-send -a "dmount" "💻 USB mounting" "$chosen mounted to $mp."
And let’s close the function.
end
Mount an Android device
The function that manages to mount Android filesystems is mountandroid
. Let’s declare it.
function mountandroid -d "Mount an Android device"
We’ll select which Android we want to mount. We will be asked through rofi.
set chosen (echo $anddrives | rofi -dmenu -i -p "Which Android device?" | awk '{print $1 $2}' | sed 's/,$//')
Now, we need to get the bus of the Android device we want to mount. It will be useful later, after we authorized mounting from our device, to get the path to our partition.
set bus (echo $chosen | sed 's/,.*//')
Let’s temporarily mount our device.
jmtpfs -device=$chosen $mp
Now, we need to allow our computer to mount our Android device. Depending on the Android version it is running on, we either need to specify our device is USB connected in order to exchange files, or Android will explicitely ask us if it is OK for our computer to access it. Let’s inform the user of that.
echo "OK" | \
rofi -dmenu -i -p "Press (Allow) on your phone screen, or set your USB settings to allow file transfert"
Now, let’s get the actual path of our Android filesystem we wish to mount, and let’s unmount the previous temporary filesystem.
set newchosen (jmtpfs -l | grep $bus | awk '{print $1 $2}' | sed 's/,$//')
sudo -A umount $mp
Now we cam mount the new filesystem and send a notification if everything went well.
jmtpfs -device=$newchosen $mp && \
notify-send -a "dmount" "🤖 Android Mounting" "Android device mounted to $mp."
And now, we can close our function.
end
Mount a CD drive
This part is way easier than the previous functions. As we will see, the function mountcd
's body is only three lines long. First, let’s declare the function.
function mountcd
Now, let’s chose the CD drive we want to mount using rofi
.
set chosen (echo $cddrives | rofi -dmenu -i -p "Which CD drive?")
We’ll also get the mountpoint thanks to the getmount
function described earlier.
getmount
And finally, let’s mount it and send the notification everything went well.
sudo -A mount $chosen $mp && \
notify-send -a "dmount" "💿 CD mounting" "$chosen mounted."
Finally, let’s close our function.
end
Ask what type of drive we want to mount
The first thing we will be asked if different types of drives are detected is which of these types the user wishes to mount. This is done with the function asktype
which is declared below.
function asktype
We will use a switch statement which will use our anwser to rofi about what we wish to mount.
switch (cat $TMPDRIVES | rofi -dmenu -i -p "Mount which drive?")
If we chose the option "USB", we’ll mount a hard drive, partition or USB drive. In which case we’ll call the mountusb
function.
case "USB"
mountusb
If we chose the "Android" option, the mountandroid
function is called.
case "Android"
mountandroid
Else if we chose the "CD" option, we’ll call the mountcd
function.
case "CD"
mountcd
If nothing is selected, the function will naturally exit. Now, let’s close our switch statement and our function.
end
end
Launch the mounting functions
Now that we have declared our functions and set our variables, we’ll read the temporary file described in Get the mountable elements. The amount of lines is passed in a switch statement.
switch (wc -l < $TMPDRIVES)
If the file has no lines, i.e. it is empty, we have no mountable media. Let’s inform our user this is the case.
case 0
notify-send "No USB drive or Android device or CD detected" -a "dmount"
If we only have one line, we have only one type of mountable media. We’ll pass this line to a second switch statement.
case 1
switch (cat $TMPDRIVES)
This will allow the script to automatically detect what type of media it is, and mount the corresponding function.
case "USB"
mountusb
case "Android"
mountandroid
case "CD"
mountCD
Let’s close this nested switch case.
end
If we have more than one line, we’ll have to ask the user what type of media they want to mount.
case '*'
asktype
Now, let’s end our switch statement!
end
Finally, we’ll delete our temporary file.
rm -f $TMPDRIVES
And with that, this is the end of our script!
Rofi-umount
rofiumount
is the counterpart of rofimount
for unmounting our mounted partitions.
Get the unmountable drives
First, we will need to list all the drives that can be safely unmounted. Let’s run this.
set -g drives (lsblk -nrpo "name,type,size,mountpoint" | \
awk '$2=="part"&&$4!~/\/boot|\/home$|SWAP/&&length($4)>1{printf "%s (%s)\n",$4,$3}')
Now, let’s get the android devices that are mounted.
set -g androids (awk '/jmtpfs/ {print $2}' /etc/mtab)
And let’s get the CD drives that are mounted.
set -g cds (awk '/sr0/ {print $2}' /etc/mtab)
We’ll store all of our information in a temporary file, /tmp/undrives
.
set -g undrivefile /tmp/undrives
Let’s make sure we begin with a clean, empty file.
rm -f $undrivefile
touch $undrivefile
Depending on if the related variables are set, write the different types of mounted drives in the temporary file.
test -n "$drives" && echo "USB" >> $undrivefile
test -n "$cds" && echo "CD" >> $undrivefile
test -n "$androids" && echo "Android" >> $undrivefile
Unmount disk partitions
The function unmountusb
will take care of unmounting any drive we can safely unmount. First, let’s declare the function.
function unmountusb
Let’s chose the drive to unmount with rofi.
set chosen (echo $drives | \
rofi -dmenu -i -p "Unmount which drive?" | \
awk '{print $1}')
Let’s verify if the user actually selected any drive. If no, let’s abort the script.
test -z "$chosen" && exit 0
Now, let’s unmount the chosen drive and send a notification if it has been done.
sudo -A umount $chosen && \
notify-send "💻 USB unmounting" "$chosen unmounted." -a "dumount"
Now, let’s close the function.
end
Unmount Android device
The function unmountandroid
will take care of unmounting any mounted Android device. First, let’s declare our function.
function unmountandroid
Let the user choose which Android device to unmount.
set chosen (echo $androids | rofi -dmenu -i -p "Unmount which device?")
We’ll verify the user chose any device.
test -z "$chosen" && exit 0
If a device has been chosen, let’s unmount it and send a notification it has been successfuly unmounted.
sudo -A umount -l $chosen && \
notify-send "🤖 Android unmounting" "$chosen unmounted." -a "dumount"
Finally, let’s close the function.
end
Unmount CD drive
unmountcd
will take care of unmounting any mounted CD drive. Let’s declare this function.
function unmountcd
As before, let the user chose which CD drive to unmount.
set chosen (echo "$cds" | rofi -dmenu -i -p "Unmount which CD?")
We’ll verify the user chose any device.
test -z "$chosen" && exit 0
If a drive has been chosen, let’s unmount it and send a notification it has been successfuly unmounted.
sudo -A umount -l $chosen && \
notify-send "💿 CD unmounting" "$chosen unmounted." -a "dumount"
Now, let’s close the function.
end
Ask what type of drive to unmount
If several types of unmountable drives are available, let’s ask the user which type to unmount based on the content of the temporary file declared in Get the unmountable drives. First, let’s declare the function.
function asktype
Let’s create a switch statement to which will be passed the selection of the user from rofi.
switch (cat $undrivefile | rofi -dmenu -i -p "Unmount which type of device?")
Three types of values can be returned: "USB", "CD", or "Android". These values will be used to launch their corresponding function.
case 'USB'
unmountusb
case 'CD'
unmountcd
case 'Android'
unmountandroid
Let’s close the switch statement.
end
Let’s now close the function.
end
Launch the unmounting functions
Now back to the body of our script, let’s input in a switch case the number of lines contained in our temporary file.
switch (wc -l < $undrivefile)
If the file containes no lines. i.e. it is empty, nothing is to be unmounted. Let’s inform the user of that.
case 0
notify-send "No USB drive or Android device or CD to unmount" -a "dumount"
Else, if there is only one type of drive, we’ll automatically let our script choose based on the content of this sole line.
case 1
switch (cat $undrivefile)
case 'USB'
unmountusb
case 'CD'
unmountcd
case 'Android'
unmountandroid
end
And if there are more types than one, let’s ask the user.
case '*'
asktype
Let’s close our main switch statement.
end
And finally, let’s delete our temporary file.
rm -f $undrivefile
Rofi-pass
rofi-pass
is a simple utility that gets a password stored in the pass
password manager with rofi as its interface, and then stores the password in the clipboard.
Let’s parse all the arguments passed to the script. If one of them is --type
, -t
or type
, the script will attempt to type the password to the text area already selected without pasting the password to the clipboard.
for arg in $argv
switch $arg
case '--type' '-t' 'type'
set -g TYPE "yes"
case '*'
printf 'Unknown argument: %s\n.' $arg
exit 1
end
end
Now, let’s get the list of the passwords that exist in our pass
repository.
set passwords (find $HOME/.password-store -type f -name "*.gpg" | \
string replace -r ".*.password-store/" "" | \
string replace -r ".gpg" "" | sort)
Let the user choose which password they wish to select.
set password (for elem in $passwords
echo $elem
end | rofi -dmenu -i -p "Select your password")
Let’s verify we actually selected a password and not just exited. If no password was selected, let’s simply exit the script.
if test -z $password
exit
end
Depending on the arguments passed earlier, we might want some different behavior.
if test $TYPE = "yes"
<<rofi-pass-type>>
else
<<rofi-pass-copy>>
end
The default behavior is to copy the password to the clipboard for 45 seconds, so let’s do that.
pass show -c $password 2> /dev/null
Else, if we passed --type
, -t
or type
as an argument of the script, we want it to attempt to type our password in the currently selected text input. Let’s do that.
set -l IFS
<<rofi-pass-type-get-password>>
printf %s $pass | xvkbd -file -
To correctly get the password from pass
, we need to parse the output and only get the first line, hence the following command.
set pass (pass show $password | string split -n \n)[1]
rofi-ytdl
This is just a simple wrapper around ytdl so I can easily download a video from rofi, which we’ll use first to retrieve the URL of the video we want to download, be it from YouTube or other website supported by youtube-dl
.
URL=$(echo "Video to download:" | rofi -dmenu -i -p "Video to download:")
Now, if the variable URL
is not empty (i.e. the user specified a link and did not abort the operation), we’ll proceed to teh download. Before it begins, we’ll send a notification saying the download is about to begin. When the ytdl
process ends, we’ll also send a notification notifying the user on the success or failure of the download.
if [ -n "$URL" ]; then
notify-send -u normal "YTDL" "Starting downloading\n$URL"
ytdl "$URL" \
&& notify-send -u normal "YTDL" "Finished downloading!" \
|| notify-send -u critical "YTDL" "Failed downloading\n$URL"
fi
Wallpaper utilities
pape-update
This little tool sets a random wallpaper using xwallpaper.
set -l PAPESDIR ~/Pictures/Wallpapers
set -l PAPES (ls $PAPESDIR)
set -l PAPE $PAPESDIR/$PAPES[(random 1 (count $PAPES))]
echo $PAPE > $HOME/.cache/wallpaper
xwallpaper --zoom $PAPE
Select wallpaper
This script is base on what sxiv can do as an image viewer as well as xwallpaper.
PAPE=$(sxiv -orbft ~/Pictures/Wallpapers/*)
echo $PAPE > ~/.cache/wallpaper
xwallpaper --zoom $PAPE
Weather
A quick and useful script I often use is a curl
request to v2.wttr.in to get a weather forecast in the terminal. By default, I want the request to be about the city I live in, but it is also possible for the script to accept as its arguments a search inquiry.
if count $argv > /dev/null
set -l SEARCH (string join '+' $argv)
curl http://v2.wttr.in/~$SEARCH
else
curl http://v2.wttr.in/Aubervilliers
end