Copyright (C) 2010-2016 A. Gordon ([email protected])

• atexpand - like 'expand', but with auto-tab width detection.
• atless - like 'less', but with auto-tab width detection.
• auto-build-install - downloads,builds,install a tarball from http/ftp/s3/git
• create-ssha-passwd - creates SSHA-encoded password lines (e.g. for NGINX)
• detect_tab_stops - help script to detect proper tab width.
• dict - like 'dict', but pipes to 'less'.
• dudirs - friendlier output of 'du'.
• easyjoin - combines 'sort' 'join' into one quick script.
• filetype_size_breakdown - summarize file usage by file type.
• list_columns - shows names and number of columns in a tabular file.
• make_balloon - easily create big empty files.
• multijoin - combine multiple files using shared key.
• nfs_iostat - wrapper for NFS statistics of iostat.
• pss - 'ps' with nicer output and easy filtering.
• ppsx - copy user hostname fullpath of file/dir to clipboard.
• psx - copy fullpath of file/dir to clipboard.
• rsx - copy rsync-compatible URL of file/dir to clipboard.
• run-with-log - run a program, log stdout/err to file, email log on errors.
• setup-bind-mount-chroot - easily create chroot directories mirroring the host.
• sort-header - wrapper for GNU sort, with header line support.
• sum_file_sizes - sum the size of files.
• sumcol - sum the values in a column of input file.
• tawk - AWK wrapper, with input/output field separators set to TAB.
• tardir - packs current directory into a time-stamped tarball.
• tuniq - UNIQ wrapper, with TAB output.
• xtime - xtime wrapper, with friendlier output.
• xxcat - 'cat' wrapper, with auto de-compression of gzip/bzip2/xz files.

Quick and Dirty:

sudo apt-get install -yqq automake autoconf make git curl
curl https://housegordon.org/install-bin-scripts.sh | sh

Using the released tarball version ( https://github.com/agordon/bin_scripts/releases ):

tar -xzvf gordon-bin-scripts-X.Y.Z.tar.gz
cd gordon-bin-scripts-X.Y.Z
./configure
make
sudo make install

Using the GIT repository:

git clone git://github.com/agordon/bin_scripts.git
cd bin_scripts
./bootstrap
./configure
make
sudo make install

When using HomeBrew/LinuxBrew:

brew install --HEAD https://raw.github.com/agordon/bin_scripts/master/gordon_bin_scripts.rb

See here: https://github.com/agordon/bin_scripts

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