Sample Unix Shell Scripts

BackupNetClone is a set of shell scripts that use rsync to provide convenient snapshot backups with minimal disk usage. The concept is based on rsnapshot but does not require Perl. BackupNetClone was originally tailored to D-Link's DNS-323 NAS device.

Wrapped shell scripts to change the OS X Finder. One script to display hidden files and another script to return Finder to normal mode. Just double click them to use.

heh associates file extensions/types and URLs with applications (or shell scripts) and opens/handles them from a command line. It has user-specific preferences and is written in Perl.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

GUI for creating shell scripts, written in Python using Tkinter for cross-platform portability.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

The NeuroEvolution Visualization Toolkit is a suite of XSL stylesheets, DTDs, shell scripts/bat files used to generate graphicaloutput in the form of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) for dataassociated with neuroevolution implementations.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

"xmlsh" is derived from the design and goals the unix shell and core commands but with XML expressions and documents added as core features to the shell. xmlsh can be used as a drop-in replacement for scripting xml transformations instead of sh. Features xquery, xslt 1.0, xslt 2.0, xpath...


Platforms: Mac

Pashua ist a tool for creating native Aqua dialog windows for Perl, PHP, Tcl, Python, AppleScript, Ruby, Rexx and shell scripts. The GUI elements which can be used include text input fields (single-line and multi-line), checkboxes, radiobuttons, combo boxes, popup menus, open panels or buttons,...


Platforms: Mac

perl and shell scripts, similar to Christian Lescuyer's comparison script, but this version actually changes the target files.Update target language php definition file(s) from source(s) in the default language. Similar to patch or cvs it does some "magic guessing" where to insert the missing...


Platforms: Windows, *nix, PHP, BSD

PhpMyContent is a web based authoring tool, with which you can manage multiple projects. Your're free to define document structures, templates and publishing rules.Pre- and post "publishing conditions" execute shell scripts before and after publishing.


Platforms: PHP

Shell Flags (shFlags) is a library written to greatly simplify the handling of command-line flags in Bourne based Unix shell scripts (bash, dash, ksh, sh, zsh) on many Unix OSes (Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, etc.). Most shell scripts use getopt for flags processing, but the different versions of...


Platforms: Mac

Autorip and autotag are a pair of shell-scripts which automate the ripping and encoding of CDs to MP3. They were written with the idea of disconnected operation in mind: * CDs can be ripped to WAV files at anytime, * CDs are identified from FreeDB the next time the machine is connected to the...


Platforms: *nix

Metalog is a modern replacement for syslogd and klogd. The logged messages can be dispatched according to their facility, urgency, program name and/or Perl-compatible regular expressions. Log files can be automatically rotated when they exceed a certain size or age. External shell scripts (ex:...


Platforms: *nix

The v6scripts collection of shell scripts, aka command files, provides some working examples of osh and sh6 scripting. The entire collection may be downloaded (v6scripts-20100428.tar.gz, checksums, tree browser) and installed for personal or general use (or studied as is). The INSTALL script in...


Platforms: *nix

GFI Network Server Monitor automatically monitors the network & servers for failures. It allows you to identify issues and fix unexpected conditions before your users (or managers) report them to you! Alerts can be sent by email, pager or SMS, for instant problem notification. Actions, such as...


Platforms: Windows

htmloptim project reduces the size of an HTML file by removing unnecessary characters like spaces, tabs, line feeds, and blank lines. Whats New in This Release: - added the -p option (remove trailing spaces and tabs) - added skipping of more < pre > like tags: < listing > < plaintext > < xmp...


Platforms: *nix

text-vimcolor is a command-line program to syntax color a file in HTML, XML or PDF. SYNOPSIS $ text-vimcolor --format html --full-page FILENAME > OUTPUT.html $ text-vimcolor --format xml FILENAME > OUTPUT.xml $ text-vimcolor --format pdf FILENAME --output OUTPUT.pdf This program uses the...


Platforms: *nix

OnMyCommand is a UNIX shell scripts and AppleScript executor. You can build your own Contextual Menu Item or GUI application.Subscribe to OMC mailing list for support and related news.


Platforms: Mac

Yasu was originally created with System Administrators who service large groups of workstations in mind, Yasu (Yet Another System Utility) was made to do a specific group of maintenance tasks quickly within a few clicks, rather than needing to endlessly type shell script commands in the Terminal...


Platforms: Mac

Thinking Home is the easiest-to-use, affordable home automation solution for Mac OS X and is now even better! v2.2 boasts a modern design that delivers performance without compromising ease of use. It is the only Mac app to store a schedule into an ActiveHome Pro (CM-15A)! Thinking Home supports...


Platforms: Mac, PPC and Intel

The goal of RText is to create a complete, fully-featured text editor (designed primarily for programmers, but can be used by anyone) that can run on any platform. Originally designed to be a Windows Notepad clone, RText has grown into much more than that. Syntax Highlighting RText currently...


Platforms: *nix