Simple Scripts

A collection of handy scripts for future use and material from the Missing Semester MIT Course.

Overview

Scripts

A collection of generic & useful bash scripts.

Missing Semester MIT Course

A collection of shell and python scripts created for the Missing Semester MIT Course. Also includes an intro to dotfiles.

• Git.md: A guide to the most common git cli commands.
• UsingSSH.md: Small guide to using SSH and conncting to VMs.
• captureRandomIntegerTesterError.sh: Tester for randomIntegerTester.sh until error occurs.
• createZipWithHTMLFiles.sh: Creates a zip folder with all HTML Files in a certain directory using xargs.
• fizz.py: an implementation of the classic fizzbuzz program in python. Was used for practice in editing a file using vim.
• jobControl.sh: An implemenation of bg, pgrep, and pkill to manage a certain sleep job.
• makeNewDirectory.sh: Uses a function to create a new directory with one parameter.
• marco.sh: Saves current directory for future use.
• pidwait.sh: A function that takes a process ID as a parameter to wait for it to complete.
• polo.sh: Navigates to directory saved from marco.sh.
• randomIntegerTester.sh: Creates a random integer and checks if the integer is equal to 42.
• sed_inPlaceSubstitution.sh: Contains three sed substitutions to work with redirecting sed program output in-place and to other files.
• sedinput.txt: Custom input for testing sed_inPlaceSubstitution.sh.
• sedoutput.txt: Generated output by sed_inPlaceSubstitution.sh.
• sigint.py: Intializes a process that can only be terminated using SIGQUIT or CTRL-\ rather than the usual CTRL-C aka SIGINT.
• tmux.conf: A basic tmux configuration file that changes the traditional binding to .
• usingAwk.sh: Implementation of the awk editor and its variations.
• usingGNUPlot.sh: Simple usage of UNIX's gnuplot program.
• usingbc.sh: Simple usage of UNIX's bc calculator program.
• vimrc: Usually saved to the location ~/.vimrc and implements some interesting config settings (line numbes, syntax highlighting, etc.). A vim script.
• wait.sh: Using the wait command in Bash and the & operator.