Random Scripts

This is a collection of scattered scripts that do not need to be packaged individually. Feel free to use them and update them, they are all licensed under the ISC-License.

fdm2twilio

Send a Twilio notification from fdm. See doc-string for configuration.

pycdate

    NAME
        pycdate - get the modification date of a .pyc file.

    SYNOPSIS
        pycdate pycfile

    DESCRIPTION
        pycdate will read the header of the pyc file and convert the timestamp
        into a ISO 8601 string.  For example:

            $ pycdate model/user.pyc
            2010-12-18T12:42:00

flac2mp3

    NAME
        flac2mp3 - tool to convert FLAC files to MP3

    SYNOPSIS
        flac2mp3 command

    DESCRIPTION
        This tool provides two commands, one to list the conversions to be done
        and one to execute them.  You can pipe one command into the other.  For
        example:

            $ flac2mp3 list | flac2mp3 convert

    COMMANDS
        The following commands are available:

        list      List flacs in the current folder and their respective converted
                  mp3 equivalent, with cleaned up filename, both source and target
                  filename are separated by a TAB character.

        convert   Read a list of filename pairs, the first item of each pair is a
                  flac file, the second the target mp3 file, separated by a TAB.

finddupes

    NAME
        finddupes - find duplicates in the given directories

    SYNOPSIS
        finddupes [-m] dir ...

    DESCRIPTION
        finddupes will return the list of all the files that are identically
        named in the provided directories.  This tool is recursive and will find
        duplicates files in any level of nesting.  If the -m option is provided,
        the md5 checksum will be used for comparison instead of the filename.

mplayer-remote.py

Control a movie remotely. This little script spawns a web server on the machine with mplayer and gives a few controls to any machine connecting to this server. You need to pass the filename of the movie you intend to play as only parameter:

mplayer-remote.py my-movie.avi

mkprotos.py

Create all the prototypes for a bunch of C functions. This is typically used in vim where you would copy all the functions of a file in your .h file, select them, hit ":" and type: !mkprotos.py

Another faster way to do it is to go in your header file and hit:

:r!mkprotos.py myfile.c

This will insert directly the prototypes in your header file.

Note that all the function with @private in their docstring will not be included in the header.

fusic.py

This small script makes use of the fact that the LG Fusic phone shows up as a serial device when plugged on a Linux box. It returns a few details about the identity of the phone (manufacturer, model, revision and serial number) but also the battery level and the signal strength.

psdfontlist.py

List all the fonts used within a Photoshop file (PSD). You will need enough RAM to load the entire file in memory. I know this is not pretty, it is not meant to be, it works for me (TM).

If a font is used multiple times, it will only be listed once. The only two working options are:

-h    help/usage
-d    show parsing debug

And this is what you should expect out if it:

$ psdfontlist myfile.pdf
OneFont
AnotherOne
SomeRandomOtherFont

The default for decoding the font names is big endian UTF-16. If you have a "BOM error":

open the codecs documentation,
add the new BOM (byte order mark) to match the data in your file,
send your patch
???
profit

playrar.sh

This script is used to play a movie out of a series of RAR files. This is particularily useful when downloading a movie in the right order since it allows you to start watching the movie almost as soon as you start your download.

Usage example:

playrar random_movie.part01.rar

tackups.py

Simplistic backup system wrapping gnupg, gzip, cpio, find and Amazon S3.

The whole point of this tool is to simplify the storage format and avoid the need for extra tools to restore from backups. All you need to restore an archive is:

gpg -d $file | gzip | cpio -id

"Incremental" backups are handled manually, in most cases, this can be done by simply specifying partial backups based on find rules, for example, backing up a folder of Maildir folders:

hourly saving only the last 24H of inbox/ and sent/
daily saving everything except archived folders
weekly saving everything.

This script assumes the AWS keys are stored in the configuration file, the reason for this choice is simple, you should setup a user for each machine (or class of machine) and only give "PutObject" rights to this user, the global AWS_ variables are typically user specific, not task specific.

Here is an example configuration file (YAML):

    aws_access_key_id:      "AK.................."
    aws_secret_access_key:  "........................................"

    gpg_recipient:          "6453194A"

    target_bucket_name:     "backups.hostname.tamentis.com"

    periods:
        hourly:
            include:
                - "mail/inbox"
                - "mail/sent"
                - "mail/work/inbox"
                - "mail/work/sent"
            include_options:
                ctime: 1

        daily:
            include:
                - "projects"
                - "mail"
            exclude:
                - "^mail/archives"

        weekly:
            include:
                - "projects"
                - "mail"

Here is an example of the usage in a crontab(5):

    @hourly tackups.py /etc/tackups.conf hourly
    @daily tackups.py /etc/tackups.conf daily
    @weekly tackups.py /etc/tackups.conf weekly

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