battery_check

Little script that returns some info about the battery. Can also change the background color depending on battery level. For best results, I use an transparent .png wallpaper with fvwm and hsetroot.

fixnames

This is one of my neatest scripts. It does recursive renaming of a directory, processing directories first and then individual files. Suports alternate filename and some support for duplicate file deletion.

It was written for a migration from an MacOSX server to a windows server, on a network where users had very bad habbits with file naming.. so included is a sed line to make all filenames valid under windows.

Fixnames obviously includes a --pretend option and also outputs nice stats, a progress indicator and full logs of the work done. See a screenshot here.

listen2

Small script to listen to predefined radio streams on a console.

md5sum-recursive

Recursive md5sum. Not much to say about it..

naughty_replace

Replaces text in files, and can be easily used to recurse in directories with a command like
find . -type f | xargs naughty_replace BillGates LinusTorvalds
It was written when working on a project with Adobe Flex. Given arguments such as OldName NewName it will do the following replacements:

• OldName -> NewName (obviously)
• oldname -> newname
• oldName -> newName

No need to say it saved me huge amounts of time

wlsd

Another really nice app (to my point of view). It is used to generate the pages you are viewing now. It is a geekish script that is best use with some basic knowledge of bash scripting (like doing loop on a file containing paths to exectute a command on each of these paths).
I was faced to the following problem: a lot of directories with content, from which part of it had to be available on the net, with permanent URIs. I did not want to separate this content from private content, the web tree had to reflect my filesystem (part of my home dir actually), wanted to minimize the time needed to setup shared content. I wanted full control of the shared content, while having as little redundancy as possible (file permissions, misc info). It is especially suited for when you have a project dir with files, publish them, then add some more which you will publish later on. I suggest you read the comments on the file to get a better idea. Some files are needed, like icons and stylesheets.