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Peter's Script-Archive - Various Scripts

Some scripts, helpers and experiments that don't quite fit the other categories.

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ALARM/WHISTLE (acoustic notification, with optional specification of date, alert messages, etc; e.g. for use with waitcond)
ALERTOSD (using the on-screen display to print an alert)
append.p (append files to similar named files in another dir, knows gzip; though mostly I just use mc for moving files into an archive dir and appending files in case of collisions)
date.before,date.after (date specific guarded commmand execution for shell scripts or cron: return true only before or after DATE, only during a specific week-of-month relative to either start or end of month - e.g. on the last day of month)
df.minfree (checks free space and warns if lower than requested)
diff.p (diff wrapper knowing about gzip)
gzip.r, gzip.rfix (gzip -r with some exceptions; archive cleanup after gzip -r)
gunzipmemberextract (experimental demo on how to extract gzipped appended members from a corrupted gzip file - a bit painful, but not impossible; still the gzip format shows its age and its deficiencies; if only some bzip2 modes would trade space inefficiency for more speed).
mt_dir (configures directory short names and invokes one of echo/cd/mc; see also the nico_cd stack in the shell function section)
paradj (format or justify a text; modified from J. Duque; can now skip \ to format perl double quoted text for output)
repeat (when I'm too lazy to write a while ... do; command; done loop)
rr (retain and recall file aliases, incl. safe command execution with alias and glob expansion; Perl version)
sanitize_filenames (rename files containing certain characters, umlauts, etc; superseeded by myrename)
sleep.p (select-based sub-second sleep example)
sleepuntil [ -c COMMAND] TIMESPEC ... sleeps until TIMESPEC, then optionally execute the previously defined command. Knows some short-hand notations like sleepuntil +20s or sleeptuntil 16:00.
unescape.pl (modified version of Guide de Rosa's unescape; strip some of the noise from script's typescript sessions logs; tries to strip e.g. vi sessions from the logs to increase their usability)
watchfloat (write background command output to a floating region of a tty)