Do you write your own .bat/.sh files to deal with menial everyday tasks on your computer?

Do you write your own .bat/.sh files to deal with menial everyday tasks on your computer?
If yes, What kind of tasks do they perform?
If no, why won't you make your life easier?

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Yes.

Yes. I'm going to dump some of them.

#!/bin/bash

day=$(date +%F%R%S%s)
Folder=$1
BACKUPDIR=$2


if [[ $# -ne 2 ]]; then
echo "This script takes in only 2 parameters. Exiting...."
exit 0;
fi


if [[ -d $BACKUPDIR ]]; then
File="$BACKUPDIR/$day.tar.bz2"
elif [[ ! -e $BACKUPDIR ]]; then
mkdir -p $BACKUPDIR
File="$BACKUPDIR/$day.tar.bz2"
elif [[! -d $BACKUPDIR ]]; then
echo "$BACKUPDIR exists but isn't a directory"
exit 0;

fi

if [[ -d "$Folder" ]]; then
tar -cvpjf $File $Folder
find $File* -mtime +7 -exec rm {} \;
elif [[ ! -d $Folder ]]; then
echo "$Folder exists but isn't a directory"
exit 0;
elif [[ ! -e $Folder ]]; then
echo "Invalid directory name"
exit 0;
fi

Works great with cron

Forgot to say that this was my backup script

Here's my youtube-dl script:
#!/bin/bash

CURRENT=$PWD
VIDEODIR=$1
FILELOC=$2
INDEX=$3
if [[ $# = 2 ]]; then


if [[ -d $VIDEODIR ]]; then
cd $VIDEODIR
elif [[ ! -d $VIDEODIR ]]; then
echo "$VIDEODIR exists but isn't a directory"
exit 0;
elif [[ ! -e $VIDEODIR ]]; then
mkdir -p $VIDEODIR
cd $VIDEODIR
fi
read -p "Download playlist [1] or individual videos [2]? " answer

if [[ $answer = 1 ]]; then
echo "$(

And my Sup Forums image downloader script:
#!/bin/bash

CURRENT=$PWD
VIDEODIR=$1
CHANURL=$2
CHAN=$3

if [[ $# -ne 3 ]]; then
echo "This script takes in only 3 parameters. Exiting...."
exit 0;
fi


if [[ -d $VIDEODIR ]]; then
cd $VIDEODIR
elif [[ ! -d $VIDEODIR ]]; then
echo "$VIDEODIR exists but isn't a directory"
exit 0;
elif [[ ! -e $VIDEODIR ]]; then
mkdir -p $VIDEODIR
cd $VIDEODIR
fi

echo "$(

I like powershell for automating tasks.

just some trivial script to expedite the launching of wine applications mostly.

Like,

APP_PATH="/whatevs"
APP_BIN="app.exe"
WINEBIN=wine
export WINEDEBUG=-all
RESOLUTION=1366x768

cd $APP_PATH
xrandr --output monitor1 --mode $RES
$WINE $APP_BIN
xrandr --output monitor1 --mode 1920x1080

>.bat files
Never.

>.sh files
Yes.

I use Windows at home, but fortunately I don't have many menial tasks to do on my personal computer. At work I use Linux. I have .sh scripts to automate some common stubby calls I need to make so I don't have to type them out, that's about it.

Gay

I want to make a windows script to move files from one folder to another every boot, with a whitelist of files that remain. No idea where to start though.

generating passwords for stuff:
randpw() { < /dev/urandom tr -dc _A-Z-a-z-0-9 | head -c${1:-32};echo; }


sending crap to sprunge
sprunge() { curl -F 'sprunge=

>see OP image
>remember watching The Love Boat in the late 1970s/early 1980s

GOD DAMMIT, OP, NOW I'M GONNA HAVE THAT FUCKING THEME SONG IN MY HEAD ALL GOD DAMNED DAY, YOU FUCKING BASTARD.

>generating passwords
oh I know the code for that
echo butter

I have this service that monitors changes to a directory:
import sys, time, logging, json, socket, handlers
from logging.handlers import SysLogHandler
from watchdog.observers import Observer

threads = []

with open('conf.json') as fp:
_file = json.load(fp)

paths = _file['directories']
event_handlers = _file['handlers']

if __name__ == "__main__":
logging.basicConfig(level=logging.INFO,
format='%(asctime)s - %(message)s',
datefmt='%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
log_handler = SysLogHandler(address='/dev/log')
logging.getLogger().addHandler(log_handler)
observer = Observer()

for x in paths:
target = str(x)
for h in event_handlers:
event_handler = getattr(handlers, h)()
observer.schedule(event_handler, target, recursive=True)
threads.append(observer)

observer.start()

try:
while True:
time.sleep(1)
except KeyboardInterrupt:
observer.stop()
observer.join()

the handlers in the handlers module have an action for files if they create/update/delete/move. The handlers can include logic like only watching for *.py files.

in this way, If I want to drop some file in a folder, I can have actions taken on the file automatically. Lets say the handler takes a python file i drop into a directory and runs a series of unit tests on it. Sorta handy. If anybody wants to see a handler example I can post.

Sure.

lol i forgot about sprunge

sprunge?

I automate robocopy with batch scripts to do my backups.
I connect my phone and run the sricpt, It saves my camera pics, my contacts, my messenger pics and so on.
Comfy shit

I have a script that launches sopcast with mplayer for certain romanian channels like
./player.sh protv
./player.sh antena3
.player.sh primatv

etc

fucking phone

meant to reply to sprunge is online storage for small, public files geared for cli

What's so interesting about gypsie media?

Yes, i wrote some scripts to do animu-related tasks senpai.

Yes

Mostly dealing with formatting the text in my clipboard

>tar
>no data deduplication
>no version control

pls user, have a look
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Synchronization_and_backup_programs

I have various .bat's for youtube-dl. Other than that, no, since Windows has good software.

Huh, thanks for pointing that out user. I guess I'll use rsync instead of tar.