Category Archives: Shell Games & Scripts

Telnet and Modern Windows Systems

Posted on 2011 September 10, Saturday by JamesIsIn

I have tried to set up port forwarding on my home router for ssh.  I am having some trouble connecting through the usual port 22 and wanted to test if anything could communicate across port 22.  Thus I issued the … Continue reading →

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Pin Cygwin Like a Medal

Posted on 2011 September 7, Wednesday by JamesIsIn

Well I’m working in a Windows world yet again.  Of course this means I’m installing Cygwin so I have BASh and Perl and other Unix goodies at my fingertips. I guess someone at Microsoft has been reading my blog because … Continue reading →

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A New Script for Skipping Tracks

Posted on 2011 August 1, Monday by JamesIsIn

A while back I wrote a simple script for skipping tracks (and a couple of other things) for Rhythmbox.  Now that Ubuntu is moving to Banshee as their default media library application I have tossed together a new script for … Continue reading →

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Using find and rm in Conjunction

Posted on 2011 July 26, Tuesday by JamesIsIn

I downloaded a bunch of music or pictures or somesuch beyond memory, and in each folder the generous sharer included two or three dozen rich text files (.rtf) with some advertising for something about which I couldn’t have cared less. … Continue reading →

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Malleable Renaming Script

Posted on 2011 April 15, Friday by JamesIsIn

I often get a pile of files where the original maker of those files used some naming scheme which, like spoiled milk, offends my nostrils.  You may call me anal if you’d like, but it prompted me to write this … Continue reading →

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Recursive Prepending Script

Posted on 2011 April 1, Friday by JamesIsIn

As you may recall I prefer to prepend my track names with the album number in the case of multiple disc albums (box sets, double-albums, &c).  I have some rather large (30 CD) sets and am lazy didn’t want to … Continue reading →

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Script for Skipping Tracks

Posted on 2010 November 30, Tuesday by JamesIsIn

I use Rhythmbox to play music on my hi-fi system.  There is a command line element for Rhythmbox called rhythmbox-client.  This element can be used to initiate a series of commands in Rhythmbox.  The problem is that these commands end … Continue reading →

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Conquer Giant APE and Giant FLAC

Posted on 2010 September 30, Thursday by JamesIsIn

I have already written posts on splitting and converting from either album-length APE files or album-length FLAC files into track-length FLAC files. (My post on converting APE files; my post on splitting APE files; my post on splitting FLAC files. … Continue reading →

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BASH Examples

Posted on 2010 September 29, Wednesday by JamesIsIn

I have been earnestly studying BASH for a while now, but I recently came across something that will be very useful and I thought I’d pass it along. Famously enough I run Ubuntu (a Debian-based distribution of Linux).  This is … Continue reading →

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Backup Script: A Love Story

Posted on 2010 August 15, Sunday by JamesIsIn

I have written a few backup scripts by now. Every time I do I find a new interesting challenge somewhere in the task. As such I’d like to talk a little about my most recent backup script and offer my … Continue reading →

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