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Posted on 27th Dec 2024
This is a theme for the whiptail linux tool, that creates menus in the terminal. It's similar to dialog. I made it for a project of mine, but because there aren't many themes out there, i share it for anyone who might find it useful. whiptail doesn't have a config file for its colors. You hav...
Posted on 25th Dec 2024
Below is a small media launcher for Linux/BASH, using, as always fzf :) You can use it to navigate, through directories and select media files to launch with your favorite media player. Of course the script can accept many improvements and it's only basic, but i am leaving this to you, as i wanted...
Posted on 2nd Dec 2024
Just a quicky... :) To get the wireless interface of your computer, in a simple and "universal" (that works in every system) way, is the following. Just use this simple command: ls /sys/class/ieee80211/*/device/net/ -1 The command will list the names of the wireless interfaces. If it's only on...
Posted on 6th Nov 2024
Lets use a BASH script to read APRS messages through the Internet. No need to have a ham radio :) The script uses expect to connect using netcat in APRS internet servers. The cool thing, is that, the main script creates sub-scripts that use expect to make the connection. I have made it a lon...
Posted on 11th Oct 2024
Often, there are times, that i want to share a text (link, command, search term etc) to my phone, from my main computer PC. For sure, you can send it over with an email, but i don't like this way, cause it's filling up my inbox/trash folder with useless emails, that often forget to delete. Also... s...
I have seen a similar implementation of a CD command for bash/linux that used a method to store a kind of DIR bookmarks and i...
Let see how we can use fzf for getting an input from the user... and i don't just mean to choose from a list of...
...or how to play games from a linux machine, from the terminal ;) Hackberry Pi, has a square screen, which makes it perfect for Gameboy...