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[technosaurus]

I have previously posted about a bash library - here
...and have posted several bash scripts in the past

Now I am combining them into a single script that works like busybox.

here is a list of currently implemented functions
If you have a function to add that isn't implemented please post it

addgroupgui() { #uses main_dialog() -> #addgroup [-g GID] [user_name] group_name
bashbox() { #todo make this more robust
blockads() { #tweaks /etc/hosts to ban certain sites
brokenlinks() { #find broken links in given input dir or pwd if not given
createlinks() { #make executable links for functions matching "()_{"
for x in `grep "() {" bashbox |cut -d"(" -f1 |grep -v " " |grep -v "#"` do ln -s bashbox $x; done
fixflash() { #mask your flash version as 10.1 rXXXXXX
getflash() { #install latest flash
getflash9() { #flash9 is smaller, fewer deps and still updated
getinput() { #DIALOG box to return user input to stdout
google() { #searches google for $@ or if blank uses $DIALOG
launcher() { #gtkdialog basic launcher program
main_dialog() { #parses template of vars to gen and eval a dialog then return the results
maindialogtemplate() {
percentbar() { #usage: "$0" XX% name=filename fgcolor=XXX bgcolor=XXX height=XXX width=XXX [vertical]
pget() { #download $1 to HOME/my-documents with axel
pickdate() { #choose a date - optional input: $1="text" $2=day $3=month $4=year
picktime() { #output a time - optional input: $1="text" $2=hours $3=minutes $4=seconds
pickfile() { #DIALOG box to return a user chosen file to stdout
pickXcolor() { #DIALOG box to return a user chosen X color to stdout
reset_mixers() { #from /usr/sbin/alsaconf... was called from rc.local0.
setDIALOG() { #sets $DIALOG to Xdialog if in X or dialog if in console
setjwmbg() { #TODO tweaks ... include $HOME/.jwmbg in the jwmrc template
setXCOLORS() { #sets $XCOLORS from ...rgb.txt
webcam2avi() { #capture your webcam to HOME/webcam.avi - requires ffmpeg & rxvt
X2avi() { #capture your desktop to HOME/x11-session.avi - ffmpeg needs x11grab
Xsetvolume() { #set volume with slider
Xshowimage() { #quick view of image

TODO partview2, mkinitrd, extractinitrd,...suggestions?
more TODO:

1)optimize/integrate puppy bash scripts/functions - replace with links
2)split off functions to compressed file that auto extracts on 1st run
3)make separate documentation file
4)more guis using main_dialog (integrated from my bbgui program)
5)suggestions?

About

1) each function tries to use other functions if possible - rather than duplicate code
2) functions are in alphabetical order to quickly find them
3) functions/comments are set up so that "folding" makes it easy to develop

Examples not yet implemented:

[technosaurus]

some screenshots of the guis

and the example code:

[Lobster]

[technosaurus]

I just split off the functions and added Zigbert's external menu and Pprocess2 (as pprocess so that it doesn't conflict)
while I was at it I added 2 parameters to make the output more sane (ps -a / ps -u : to get just the running programs / running programs with more parameters)

I am trying to get the best parts of Zigbert's almost-hidden libraries in here and split them out into usable parts as I go.

Not sure the best gui style for the ffmpeg programs (X/webcam2avi) - maybe just set the directory and filename and open another dialog to play/convert etc...? ... crap I may need to add woo-ff to it, but I lost my latest version when I finally decided to wipe my last ntfs partition and the forum thread was deleted.... maybe I can port ffconvert instead

Edit:forgot to mention - added documentation in /usr/share/bashbox/bbdoc.sh - but I forgot to add this line to the end:
defaulttexteditor $0

[technosaurus]

added ffconvert-1.1-development-version (no code reductions yet)
added menu entries for pprocess and ffconvert
clicking on the documentation file (or running it will now open it in the defaulttexteditor)

[Flash]

Is Tree something that could be incorporated? I'm not sure what you're doing, so if that's a silly question just ignore it.

[technosaurus]

that one is in C but I rewrote it in bash (display only)
maybe it is better to echo to a file and then use less in case you have a really large tree? ... also ../ and ./ cornercases (needs full path or it only goes down one dir)

[Flash]

I use Tree to list the contents of the directory where all my mp3 books are. My mp3_books directory is arranged as in a library, with subdirectories of authors, and each author subdirectory containing subdirectories of mp3 books by that author. Finally, each mp3 book directory contains the mp3 audio files.

When I use Tree, I don't want it to display the actual files the books contain, only the directories. Mp3 audio books can contain hundreds of mp3 files, typically. Displaying those files wastes all the space on the screen for no purpose.

[technosaurus]

like this?

[Flash]

Well, I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't know how to try that out. I'll be happy to try it if you'll tell me how.

Here's an old post that shows what I mean. Each of the books in that list contains hundreds of mp3 files. Obviously, showing all the mp3 files would make the list all but useless for my purpose, which is to choose a book to listen to.

[technosaurus]

just save this into a script to test the dir_tree portion

[Flash]

I opened a rxvt window in the mp3_books directory (by pressing the ` key to the left of the 1 key while in the mp3_books directory), copied the code above, pasted it into the rxvt window - and nothing happened. I suppose I should have first installed the bashbox .pet above? How do I open a bashbox console in the mp3_books directory?

Edit: The last line of code worked in rxvt, but not well.

Here's what it looked like:

[technosaurus]

they have to be run as scripts to work, because they recursively call themselves ($0 $1 & $2 are the inputs to the script), but your output indicates that you also need support for spaces in file names... next up auto-renaming function

[zigbert]

technosaurus

[technosaurus]