The following are tools and settings that I like to have on all my Linux systems so I decided to create a debian package since that way I can install the whole thing at once.
The atype tool is used to type the content of a file in hexadecimal and
in ASCII.
The tool can also be used to transform a binary file in a C/C++ table.
If you deal with files from MS-Windows or MacOS, you may end up with
files that end with \r\n or \r characters instead of the \n as
expected on Linux.
This tool will force the all end of line characters to the \n character.
I needed to concatenate lines of a text file in a single long line. I used these script for that purpose. I like to keep them, just in case. I will add more as I create new scripts. Specifically, I have some in my ~/bin folder which I need to install on many of my systems and that would be useful.
Run this script to extend the GPG agent session duration. The tool checks the gpg-agent.conf file of all users and changes the TTLs to a much longer period than the default.
At this time, the duration cannot be specified on the command line. But at least the script gives you all the necessary information on how to do such edits.
The hex tool is used to convert integers and characters to numbers in
hexadecimal, octal, decimal and also prints out the number as UTF-8
which is used often now a day.
The latest version also include better support for floating point numbers.
I learned that you could add your own filters for the less command. This is how it displays certain things about certain files which by default you would probably not expect. For example, it can transform an .ELF file into the output of objdump instead of showing us binary data. This is the extension I propose here.
I also have a firewall extension, but that one is turned off at the moment. It's not logical in this scheme.
The poke tool needs a lot of help to really become useful. Especially,
we would need to be able to insert and delete bytes. Right now, you can
only write a byte at the specified offset.
That being said, I have had the need to write a specific value at a specific offset in order to fix various files. This is useful for such situations when you want to just write a shell script to poke values.
This script automatically makes vim the default editor in your shell.
On each reboot on Ubuntu 22.04, my pulseaudio system is down. This may be because it is not supposed to be the code being used (I upgraded my computer from 20.04 instead of installing fresh and this may be why this fails).
The script restarts the pulseaudio system and then I have sound as expected.
Once in a while (rarely, though), the system-monitor extension appearing in my status bar at the top-right crashes. This script can be used to restart it.
This script is used to reset a console. At times, a utility such as
less messes up the console and using this function helps in fixing
the normal console functionality.
At this time, I install those in the skeleton and I have a .vimrc
file. However, I am thinking that this is not what one wants in the
end. There are ways to make this work properly, it just needs a little
more work.
- put the vimrc functionality for syntax detection under a plugin
(see
/usr/share/vim/addons/plugins/...) - put the syntax files under
/usr/share/vim/addons/syntax/...with a name specific to my plugin (i.e. alex-tools-.vim) - verify that the order works as expected, my
cpp.vimextension, for example, must be the one loaded for C++ files since it extends the defaultcpp.vim; that works in my.vimrcfile, it's TBD in a plugin
Some additional info: https://vi.stackexchange.com/questions/17185
I have some additional key combos I like to have access to. This file defines those extensions. It gets installed under your home directory as a hidden file (.XCompose).
WARNING: I have not yet found a way to automatically take changes in account in the current session. At the moment, you have to at least Log Out and Log back In. You can also reboot.
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