Posts in Category: bash

Create an Index page for Grav, from blog posts

Create an Index page for Grav, from blog posts

Posted on 27th May 2025

When a website, gets large enough, finding posts and navigating, gets frustrating. Something to help, is to create an Index page. A page, that will have a list of all blog posts, in chronological order, easy for someone to read and find what he is looking for. And because Grav CMS keeps everything i...

Sync files over HTTP...

Sync files over HTTP...

Posted on 26th May 2025

I use this website/server to store all of my projects and specially my scripts, that i use almost on all of my machines. But because i update them regularly, i needed a way to automate this process a bit, cause login from each machine, to the server and downloading the scripts, isn't easy/quick, spe...

FTP repository, like Git... sort of...

FTP repository, like Git... sort of...

Posted on 15th Mar 2025

I want to be able to access many of my scripts/projects, from everywhere. So, uploading them to a server is the only solution. Until now, i was using Git repositories. For sure it's the best way to do so, but there is only one problem. I don't want all of my projects to be visible/accessible by othe...

One script to Update them all...

One script to Update them all...

Posted on 5th Feb 2025

I regularly use apt to update/upgrade system packages, but i usually forget to update snap packages/apps or github repositories or appimages... For the last one, i haven't found a global solution, but for the others, i did. Below is a simple script, that will update and upgrade your system, based...

Find device in local network by MAC address

Find device in local network by MAC address

Posted on 2nd Feb 2025

I am making some scripts and wanted to know the IP of specific devices (ex. smartphones). To identify the device, the MAC address is enough and a sure way. Some one could use arp-scan or nmap to do so, but in my case, i didn't want to use root privileges. I wanted a way, that would be: Quick...