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What was your latest improvement to your Linux setup? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

A script full of functions that I perform often, like:

Probe every 5min for internet connection. Play Black Sabbath when there is. (My internet goes down often.)
Create individual tarballs/zips/rars for each subdir.
Extract all tarballs/zips/rars from a dir. (It detects the format on its own)
Extract all files of a DwarFS file into a dir.
Re-encode all vids from a dir.
Delete all thumbnail pictures from my user.
Find and remove all desktop.ini and thumbs.db files in a dir, recursively.

My .bashrc then sources that script, so to use those functions I simply open a terminal. And if I ever need to delete my .bashrc and recreate it anew, they're safely stored in my scripts directory.

[–] redbr64 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The black Sabbath for Internet connection is hilarious. Did you get that from the Bitcoin mining trigger bit on Silicon Valley?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

No, that's a coincidence. I wanted something that: started loud, was easy to recognise, I don't mind hearing, and my neighbours don't listen to. Wicked World it is.

Here's the code by the way, with the echo translated:

lvxInternetCheck () {
	while [[ $(ping -c 5 8.8.8.8 | grep -o "100% packet loss") == "100% packet loss" ]]
		do echo "No internet at $(date +%R)." ; sleep 300
		done
	echo "Internet came back at $(date +%R)."
	cvlc /[redacted]/08\ -\ Wicked\ World.mp3 
	}

It's dirty but it works. (My functions start with "lvx" to avoid the tiny chance that they might clash with system functions.)

[–] redbr64 2 points 7 months ago

Ha, very nice!

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