Gnu-linux-shell-use is a foundation for shell scripting in the GNU/Linux environment.

It is made up of four type of solutions:

1. Scripts
2. Functions scripts
3. One-liners
4. Aliases

Paradigms

All the solutions of Gnu-linux-shell-use exist in following paradigms. Each paradigm contains one to two examples:

Application management

• Generic RDBMS utility functions for a MySQL database
• Check if a PostgreSQL database exists.

File management

• Rename all files matching a name recursively.
• Get the size in megabytes of one or more files and/or directories.

System management

• List all processes owned by the current user.
• Print the target architecture of the current operating system.

Hardware management

• Check if the primary wireless local area network device interface is soft blocked.
• Get the vendor name of the CPU.

Shell management

• Execute a command in the background.
• Remove the last N entries from the bash history.

X11 management

• Get the ID of the active window.
• Get the class of a window by ID.

Mobile device management

• Watch the X and Y screen tap positions of an Android device.
• Mount and unmount an MTP device.

Scripting

• Bash array utilities
• Bash date and time utilities

Text manipulation

• Replace all occurrences of a string recursively.

Text processing

• Count the number of characters in a string.

Number processing

• Convert a hexidecimal number to decimal.

Packaged solutions

Gnu-linux-shell-use has an extension repository for solutions consisting of more than one file here.

Code style guidelines

All the solutions in this repository follow standard guidelines.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute, please ensure that your contribution adheres to the respective guideline. Here is a list of needed solutions; it can be used for ideas.

An alternative implementation to an already existing solution will be accepted only if it has substantial reason, such as using a different dependency or language.

Finally, credits will be placed in the wiki.

Please send an email to main@computingfoundation.org with any suggestions, comments or questions.

Thanks.