• countbytes: a script for logging incomming TCP traffic for a given period of time.
• mtnfs: a script for mounting NFS fileshares at boot but only if the NFS server is up.
• autoshtdn: shuts down a network server if their are no workstations up on the network.
• chkserver: uses kdialog to create a popup window to notify a user after login if the server is down.
• save-dvb: an interactive command line script for scheduling and recording DVB-T free to air broadcasts.
• get-weather: a very long one liner that max's out on stream editing to deliver weather to my console, a kdialog pop up, or a virtual webpage on a server.
• create-dvd: a script for encoding, shrinking, cropping and burning dvd's from mpeg.ps videos.
• fun with stream editors: sometimes I just feel like fiddling around while my computer burns.

• audcap: (audio capture) a quick and dirty script that uses arecord and kdialog to capture audio directly off your sound card. I link it to an icon and use it to timeshift audio streams off the net.
• mouseup: a script that assumes if the mouse hasn't been moved in a while and nobody is watching videos then its a good idea to shut down the box.
I don't use these scripts anymore but I've included them here in case someone else can make use of them.
• gx-logon: a network dialup connection script with GUI wrapper provided by gx-message. With gx-login it is possible for a user to remotely initiate a dialup connection on a gateway box
• qburn: for quick and simple copying/burning of ISO's and data disks.

Begin: Monday-February-22:14;   End: Monday-February-22:15;     Total download on eth0 is: 1155.98 Kb.

Begin: Tuesday-February-05:19;  End: Tuesday-February-05:19;    There was no incoming TCP traffic during this period.

Begin: Tuesday-February-05:20;  End: Tuesday-February-05:40;    Total download on eth0 is: 8064.720 Kb.

Mon Feb 23 21:47:11 EST 2009 ran autoshutdn script Mon Feb 23 21:47:11 EST 2009
rick=2, leila=1, atjobs=1, create-dvd=1, dvbstream=1, no shutdown now.


Mon Feb 23 22:47:14 EST 2009 ran autoshutdn script Mon Feb 23 22:47:14 EST 2009
rick=1, leila=1, atjobs=1, create-dvd=1, dvbstream=1, shutting down now.


Tue Feb 24 05:47:05 EST 2009 ran autoshutdn script Tue Feb 24 05:47:05 EST 2009
rick=2, leila=1, atjobs=1, create-dvd=1, dvbstream=1, no shutdown now.

• deps
  I often build my own slack-packs and having a script to tell me what required packages I need to install before compiling was a covenience worth the time it took to write this script.
  deps compares the installed packages listed in /var/log/packages with the packages listed in a slack-required file and prints each required packaged and the corresponding installed package line by line to stdout. If a required package is installed the required package and the installed package will be printed to stdout. If the required package is not installed, only the required package is printed to stdout.
  I could have written this script to just print the required uninstalled package but I wanted to see both the required and the installed listed side by side in two columns albeit long file names throw the columns out of whack. Maybe I'll sit down on a rainy day a figure out how to fix that.

  	
  rick@rick:~$ deps
  Reqd: alsa-lib >= 1.0.17a-i486-1                Installed: alsa-lib-1.0.17a-i486-1
  Reqd: atk >= 1.23.5-i486-1              Installed: atk-1.23.5-i486-1
  Reqd: cairo >= 1.6.4-i486-1             Installed: cairo-1.6.4-i486-1
  Reqd: expat >= 2.0.1-i486-1             Installed: expat-2.0.1-i486-1
  Reqd: fontconfig >= 2.6.0-i486-2                Installed: fontconfig-2.6.0-i486-2
  Reqd: freetype >= 2.3.7-i486-1          Installed: freetype-2.3.7-i486-1
  Reqd: gtk+2 >= 2.12.12-i486-1           Installed: gtk+2-2.12.12-i486-1
  Reqd: libICE >= 1.0.4-i486-1            Installed: libICE-1.0.4-i486-1
  Reqd: libSM >= 1.0.3-i486-1             Installed: libSM-1.0.3-i486-1
  Reqd: libX11 >= 1.1.5-i486-1            Installed: libX11-1.1.5-i486-1
  Reqd: libXau >= 1.0.4-i486-1            Installed: libXau-1.0.4-i486-1
  snipped!	
  	

  	
  #!/bin/bash
  # /usr/local/bin/deps 20090614rm
  # parses ./slack-required (default) and compares required packages to 
  # installed packages listed in /var/log/packages. Alternatively enter 
  # a /path/filename after command to parse a file in a directory other
  # than  the pwd. This script isn't perfect or foolproof but it saves 
  # me time checking dependencies before building a package
  
  
  # If a file is not entered after the command the script will read the
  # slack-required file in the pwd
  input_file=$1
  test -n "$input_file"
  
  if [ $? -eq 1 ]; then
      input_file=slack-required
   fi
  
  # delete some lines that I know are givens
  sed '/gcc*/d' $input_file | sed '/glibc*/d' > required.txt
  
  # Assign a variable for the number of lines in required text so the script
  # will stop looping a the last line
  line_no="`sed -n '$=' required.txt`"
  
  # Assign a variable to start counting at line 1
  count=1
  
  while [ "$count" -le "$line_no" ]
    do
      # This creates a test variable of the required package name less its version no.
      test=`sed -n "$count"p required.txt | awk -F ">=" '{print $1}'`
      # This creates a test variable of the required package name including its version no.
      required=`sed -n "$count"p required.txt`
      # See if the package has been installed
      installed=`ls /var/log/packages | grep $test`
      # Print the slack-required line plus installed package together, sed is needed to
      # Remove any other installed packages printed to stdout in the above grep command
      echo -e "Reqd: $required\t\tInstalled: $installed" |  sed -n '/Reqd:/p'
      count=$((count + 1))
    done
    
  # End of script	
  	

  
  

• selektde:
  This a script which allows me to switch between using a .kde for kde3 and or one for kde4 in the same /home/user directory. It it creates a variable named version by getting the first didgit of the installed KDE version number whic is then used to switch a case statement selecting the use of either .kde3 or .kde4.

  
  #!/bin/bash
  # /usr/local/bin/selektde 200905012rm
  
  version=`ls /var/log/packages | grep kde | awk -F "-" '{print $2}' | awk -F "." '{print $1}' | sed 1q`
  
  if [ $HOME/.kde ]; then
    rm $HOME/.kde
  fi
  
  case $version in
    3)	ln -sf $HOME/.kde3 $HOME/.kde
  		;;
    4) 	ln -sf $HOME/.kde4 $HOME/.kde
  		;;
  esac
  
  # end of script	
  	
  	

  
  

• get-quote:
  This is actually a snippet from a signature script although I provide it below as a standalone script if you care play with it.
  I wanted to set up my signature script so that it would use a different quote from fortune each time it ran. I only wanted to use quotes that were 10 lines or less and I wanted the quote displayed with the person the quote was attributed to.
  I used sed to do a line count and to check to see if the last line had the chracters " --" in it which would indicate an attribution. If these two conditions were met it was a quote and would print to stdout. Putting everything in a loop kept it running untill a suitable quote was found.

  	
  #!/bin/bash
  
  while [ TRUE ]
  do
  fortune > .quote-test
  number=`sed -n '$=' .quote-test`
  
   if [ "$number" -le 10 ]; then
    test0=0
   else
    test0=1
   fi
  
  sed '$!d'  .quote-test | grep -e '--' > /dev/null 2>&1
  
   if [ "$?" = 0 ]; then
      test1=0
   else
      test1=1
   fi
  
   if [ "$test0" -eq 0 -a "$test1" -eq 0 ]; then
    cat .quote-test
    break
    fi
  done
  
  #end of script