Utility Scripts

Here are some utility scripts I use personally. Please feel free to change them and use as needed.

Compress folders

This takes one argument the folder path and tar gzips up any folders it finds there.

For example if you had

/var/tmp/a/
/var/tmp/b/
/var/tmp/c.txt

if you run

sh compress-folders.sh /var/tmp/

you will get

/var/tmp/a/
/var/tmp/a.tar.gz
/var/tmp/b/
/var/tmp/b.tar.gz
/var/tmp/c.txt

Gnome terminals

sh gnome-terminals.sh

Will get you 4 tiled terminals in a gnome display of 1366x768. Change the values to your screen

Toggle hidden files on Mac OSX

Running this script will show or hide hidden files in Finder

sh mac-toggle-hidden.sh