CLI Tools

Description

The little scripts I've written to make my life just a little bit easier when I'm living in the terminal

Requirements

• Bash
• Python 3

Usage

Add the directory to your path in your shell config file.

export PATH=$PATH:"/path/to/the/script/dir/"

If you help with a tool just run it with a -h flag

• ascii is a Python script to convert a unicode text file to plain ASCII. Especially useful for those annoying little unicode quotation marks that look just like ASCII but cause all sorts of problems.
• blocksite adds a URL to the /etc/hosts file to stop those time sucking websites (only works on Mac and Linux)
• check_git prints all directories that have uncommitted Git changes.
• diffchar finds the number of characters that don't match between two strings. Helpful for checking for differences in DNA.
• grading was one of my first CLI scripts to convert a percentage grade into a letter grade
• ipynb2py converts a Jupyter notebook to a Python script
• l2n converts a markdown letter list into a numeral list
• licence prints out a specified licence
• numlines finds the biggest file in a directory
• orm calculates your one rep max for weightlifting
• password generates a random password
• printer can either print the Markdown files in a directory as plain text or convert them to PDFs before printing
• rename renames a directory of files in sequential order
• rmbadges quickly toggles dock notification badges on macOS
• sinceblock gets the number of minutes since the last Bitcoin block (must be run from a Bitcoin node)
• thes gets synonyms of the word from a thesaurus
• latest_commit shows the subdirectories in a directory sorted by the date of the latest git commit
• gp-control turns the GlobalProtect VPN on and off with launchctl on macOS.