Script Miscellanea
Poll a web address as a way of announcing your presence to the world. Note that this spawns a background daemon.
./heartbeater
Grab a bunch of RSS feeds and create a basic webpage with them. This is meant to replace the now-moribund iGoogle.
./ig
Poorman's tcpdump: an intercepting transparent proxy with a pipe and two netcats
./tcpdump.sh 8080 www3.imperial.ac.uk 80
Point your browser at localhost:8080. Two
files will be created: incoming.dump and outgoing.dump,
representing the incoming and outgoing data transferred respectively.
Run make when watched files change.
Start a program and supervise it (i.e. restart it if it fails within certain bounds).
% # Run offlineimap. Restart it if it closes with a non-zero exit, at most 5 times in 1 second.
% supervise.tcl -maxr 5 -maxt 1 /src/offlineimap/offlineimap.py -u Curses.Blinkenlights
Start and stop multiple RabbitMQ brokers with a single command!
Assumes
rabbitmq-multiis inPATH. Alternatively, set theRABBITMQ_BINARYenvironment variable.
% rabbitmq-multi start rabbit hare # start 'rabbit' and 'hare' on localhost
% rabbitmq-multi reset hare rabbit # reset both nodes
% rabbitmq-multi stop hare # stop just 'hare'
% rabbitmq-multi reload rabbit # restart 'rabbit' completely using new code
% rabbitmq-multi status hare # check the status of 'hare'
Requires youtube-dl, and mplayer
# Download and extract the MP3 from the YouTube video. Duh.
% youtube-mp3.sh 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOU8GIRUd_g'
If the only argument is a directory ls it, otherwise, behaves
exactly like cat.
A Tki 5E6B nter UI for copying files from damaged media such as scratched DVDs. It's particularly useful on Windows where Explorer refuses to copy a file if any block in it is unreadable; when this happens, this script the corresponding 1Kb block with zeros.
A shell for interacting with Rackspace
CloudFiles.
This is effectively a REPL that provides basic file operations
(e.g. ls, info, copy, remove).
A clone of the sm screen-typing program.