Posts with Tag: cli

Search the Internet with DMENU

Search the Internet with DMENU

Posted on 21st Jan 2025

As i showed in a previous post, with fzf, we can also use dmenu as a method to input text. It's not that difficult, but tricky yes. So, with this method, i built a BASH script, to search the Internet with the search engines i prefer, from everywhere i am at the desktop. No need to pull the termi...

BASH fetch?

BASH fetch?

Posted on 10th Jan 2025

I don't know why there are too many implementations that look like neofetch and why they are so complicated. I mean, i just saw one, using python and being tenths of files and hundreds lines of code. Why? Because of the ASCII logo? Anyway... if you want a quick way to see a complete summary of s...

Whiptail Orange theme...

Whiptail Orange theme...

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...

Mini fzf media launcher (file explorer)

Mini fzf media launcher (file explorer)

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...

DELTREE command in Python

DELTREE command in Python

Posted on 18th Dec 2024

One of the most useful commands when i used DOS, was deltree. Quickly and easy, deleting large areas of the hard disk, with no point of return... In Linux, there isn't such a command, or perhaps, it's a bit disguised, but never the less, it hasn't the features of the original deltree command or...