This project is a collection of scripts that demonstrate the usefulness of the Bash builtin commands pwb and ate, and how quickly these tools can help one develop useful command line applications that solve unique problems.
Secondarily, these scripts are here because they solve my
particular problems. I have made sym-links in /usr/bin to many of
these scripts so because I use them frequently.
Most of the scripts are works-in-progress, but I'll try to give some hints as the purpose and/or strategy of each of the scripts.
These scripts are suitable for learning more about techniques of using pwb and ate.
This is a minimal implementation of using pwb and ate in a script. This might be a good place to start seeing how they work in an application.
Another minimalist implementation showing the output of ps in
a pwb script
Using github's gh API, show a list of all repositories in your
Github account, with a description in the header. This was a test
case for developing methods for showing line information in another
pane. In this case, the page head displays the date and description
of the repository.
The main display shows commit events. The header shows several details about the commit
I edit my LS_COLORS variable to make some colors more visible against the black console screen in which I usually work. These tools aspire to make that easier
Named after the dircolors command because it shows the same
information as that command. This script shows every LS_COLOR value
with an example 'swatch' of color. What distinguishes this is that
if you press ENTER, you can edit the color. The color editor is
really lame, but I reverted to this simple-minded implementation after
speding entirely too much time trying to design a color editor that
could handle all the methods of describing color on a console.
This is the first script that uses my messaging and dialog tools.
Just shows the output of showrgb in a pwb display.
I'm not really excited about any of the available TUI directory browsers I've found. These scripts are chances to roll-my-own with launching document viewers for various file types like markdown and groff (man) files. I don't need copy or move, so these common features are missing from my file browsers.
This is my first effort. It works for opening a browser to view a markdown file, but fails for man files. A point of interest with this script is how it helped me get recursion in Bash working, which involved learning better Bash practices, and some Builtin coding practices to make sure any generated variables are created in the current scope.
This is a re-thinking of pwb_ls, with a thorough collecting and cataloging of mime and file type information (using ate to apply to all the files in a given directory. This is a work-in-progress which I set aside temporarily to develop some messaging and dialog utilities.
I sometimes want to know if I've installed some utility, or I may have forgotten the exact spelling. These apt scripts are little experiments in collecting and displaying information about installed packages.
Shows a list of apt operations. Clicking ENTER on one shows details about the operation, like a list of dependent downloads
Shows a list of all installed packages with the included description. Pressing ENTER has no effect.
Early effort of little value. Keeping around because I can't be bothered to see if it contains anything of value.