Linux-shell-base is a resource for advancing computational efficiency and development in Linux.
Its purpose is to help Linux users use the shell and their Linux environment efficiently.
Its solutions are foundational to the philosophy of computing and conform to four principles:
• Solve a fundamental problem in the Linux application layer.
• Require a considerable amount of research.
• Use a standard approach.
• Comply with the UNIX philosophy and standard scripting rules.
Linux-shell-base provides three types of solutions for multiple paradigms of the application layer (described in the bin/ README):
Scripts.
Aliases and short functions for bash profiles.
One-liners.
These solutions are conceptually similar to scripts except they are lower-level and not typically used independently, and instead, meant to be extended. They are also not typically used for bash profiles.
This repository initially (and currently) consists of 60 scripts, 52 aliases and short functions and 4 one-liners.
All solutions conform to the respective guideline and the following rules:
A solution ...
- is documented.
- is error-free.
- does not contain deprecated code.
- uses modern styled code.
- is independent of any other solution.
- includes a source if exists.
The following solutions are included as an example:
- Open a new terminal optionally with an initial command to run.
- Execute a given command in (or run the last command of) a terminal emulator.
- Send an sms using an Android device.
- Watch and print X and Y screen tap coordinates of an Android device.
- Return a file for a command using one of two search methods: 1. locate; 2. recursion.
- Execute a command and an action on the resulting window.
Solutions for core aspects of the Linux operating system (file, hardware, networking, x11, etc.) providing output (values or information) only (no actions performed)
- Get the size of one or more file and/or directories as a plain number.
- Check if the primary wireless local area network device is soft blocked.
- Get the ID of the active window.
The type of solutions this repository does not include:
- File formatting or converting (e.g. BMP to JPEG or CYMK colors to RGB colors).
- Text formatting
- OS or application function specific.
- Requiring very little research.
Linux-shell-base has an extension repository for packaged utilities.
Beginners-documentation is a repository providing documentation on Linux for new Linux users.
- All initial solutions have been created and tested in Bash only (and not Ksh, Zsh, etc.) and were created with only slight attention to portability, however, they are updated to be more portable if changes are significant.
- There is considerably a false notion within society that the level of benefit provided by technology is close to the level contributed to it. Linus Torvalds, the creator of Linux, recently made a statement claiming that talk of innovation in technology is false, even to the extent that "successful projects are 99 per cent perspiration, and one per cent innovation." Simply by typical understanding of innovation within society, this statement considerably shows how much all of society is missing out on the benefits of technology by misunderstanding and possibly misusing it.
The goal of this repository is to be as comprehensive as possible. Contributions are therefore welcome. If you would like to contribute a solution, please create a pull request or send an email to admin@linuxshellbase.com.
Credits will be placed in the wiki and can identify the user by name, username or URL. If a contributed solution is an alternative method/implementation to an already existing one, it will be given the same name with an incremented number, ordered by the most commonly accepted method/implementation.
Please send an email with any suggestions, comments or questions.
In 1961, NASA set out on a mission to send a manned rocket to the moon, Apollo 11, however, the calculations were far too complex to do by hand. As a result, NASA designed the Apollo Guidance Computer to do these calculations. In the modern day, a typical smartphone is millions times faster than NASA's computers were in 1969. Considering all the math NASA had done with these computers to calculate Apollo 11, should programmers today theoretically have mastered the foundational level of scripting and programming that allows them to move on to completing other projects? There is a major incongruence between technology and the global software infrastructure. This infrastructure is primarily not designed for the user as most software focuses on providing solutions for a specific task rather than solutions for it. To illustrate the incongruence, if a programmer were to create a new amazing search algorithm or video game, he or she would have to spend a great amount of time researching solutions for and solving general low-level software development problems before continuing. In order for individuals to progressively build software at a rate consistent with the change in the global software infrastructure, there must exist resources focusing on general user development.