Convenient Utilities Linux

A series of utilities that make life easier on linux.

Install

1. Clone the dir somewhere on your pc.

if ! [ -d ~/scripts ] ; then mkdir -p ~/scripts ; fi
cd ~/scripts
git clone https://github.com/adrianscheff/convenient-utils-linux

2. Add the dir path to .bashrc (or your terminal startup config file)

echo 'export PATH="~/scripts/convenient-utils-linux:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc

3. Reload your terminal.

source ~/.bashrc

Uninstall

1. Delete the dir where the downloaded files are.

rm ~/scripts/convenient-utils-linux -r

2. Remove the added line to .bashrc. It should be something like

export PATH="~/scripts/convenient-utils-linux:$PATH"

Use

• Just call the desired utility. The 'show' family start with the keyword 'show' and continue with something relevant.
• For example to show users type 'showu'. [show][u] - show users, alright?
• showg - showgroup. showp - showpath. showbf - showbigfiles. showus - show user space. etc
• Here's a favourite one liner. Show total file size & count for every user in the root dir.

for u in $(showu); do showus -u $u -d / ; done

General Presentation

showbf

• show big files. First 10 by default, current user, current dir.
• Use it with different user, different dir.
• Works well with files that have spaces or other "funky" chars.

showus

• Show a user disk usage AND file count in a dir. Calculates by adding file sizes owned by user.
• It uses kibibytes (1KiB = 1024 Bytes). It may show slightly different results from ls. Not sure why. I think that ls might round results after dividing. This script doesn't.

showbl

• show broken links. Use custom dir or custom user

showg

• Show groups, every group on one line.
• It's a simple one liner (in the script) but quite convenient to use in this form.

showp

• Show paths added to $PATH, each on one line

showu

• Show users, each on a separate line.

wtw

• What's the word? A simple one liner (in script) to show possible words for regex.