🤓 Utility bash scripts

Utility bash scripts to do automatable tasks with a single command. We have scripts to download youtube videos, download music from youtube, convert media files, etc.

Contribute and add your secret script.

📝 NOTES

Download scripts download to ~/Downloads/ folder. For videos, they download to ~/Downloads/Videos and for audio, they download to ~/Downloads/Music.

For best results, clone this git repo to a fixed location on your computer and add it to $PATH.

cd ~
git clone https://github.com/aviaryan/utility-bash-scripts.git utility-scripts
cd utility-scripts
export PATH="$(pwd):$PATH"

📜 SCRIPTS

🔻 Download video from YouTube in MP4 format

Script: youtube-video
Dependencies: youtube-dl, ffmpeg, aria2c (optional)

youtube-video "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgfojLtSBTM"

🔀 Merge video and audio together

Script: vamerge
Dependencies: ffmpeg

vamerge <path to video file> <path to audio file>
# the order is important, first video, then audio

🔰 Download audio from YouTube

Script: youtube-music
Dependencies: youtube-dl, ffmpeg, aria2c (optional)

Default download format is ogg(vorbis), pass second parameter as mp3, wav, m4a to use another format.

youtube-music "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgfojLtSBTM"  
youtube-music "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgfojLtSBTM" mp3

♋️ Convert audio file to OGG

Script: toogg
Dependencies: ffmpeg

toogg <path to file>

😈 Uglify a JS code

Script: uglify
Dependencies: Uglify-JS

uglify <input JS file> <output file>

✂️ Extract any archive

Script: extract
Dependencies: tar, gzip, p7zip, bzip2

Extracting .dmg files works only on MacOS.

extract <path to archive>

♋️ Convert audio file to MP3

Script: tomp3
Dependencies: ffmpeg

tomp3 <path to file>

🔉 Download audio from SoundCloud

Script: soundcloud-music
Dependencies: Soundscrape

soundcloud-music <link to soundcloud>

🐳 Force stop and clean Docker containers

Script: dckill

dckill

♻️ Empty Trash folder

Script: empty-trash

empty-trash

⏰ Get current time at any timezone

Script: clock
Dependencies: timedatectl for Linux, sudo access for Mac

clock list
clock <Time Zone>

🌧 Get weather report for a location

Script: weather

weather <City Name>
weather # Will use your IP Address location

🏹 Create custom short link for a GitHub URL using git.io

Script: gh-url

gh-url <url-to-shorten> <short-code>

🤐 ZIP without .DS_Store on a Mac

Script: maczip

maczip <path to folder>

🖼 Delete screenshots from Desktop on a Mac

Script: delete-ss

delete-ss

❌ Remove .DS_Store files recursively (Mac)

Script: rm-ds-store

rm-ds-store

🖼 Show certificate information of a service

Script: show-certificate
Dependencies: openssl

show-certificate google.com

📹 Encode video to x265

Script: encode-x265
Dependencies: ffmpeg

Default encoded video's name is videoname-x265. But you can change it like the second example.

encode-x265 <path to video>
encode-x265 <path to video> <path to encoded video>

🎥 Convert video to gif

Script: gif-convert
Dependencies: ffmpeg

gif-convert <path to video> <path to gif> <start_at> <end_at> <fps> <scale>

If you don't want to change the value, you can use -.

gif-convert input.mp4 output.gif 05:00 05:03.6 - 640x360 

📜 Learn a new command

Script: learn
Dependencies: cowsay

learn

🍅 Pomodoro

Script: pomodoro

pomodoro <focus time length> <break time length>

🤘🏻 SIMPLE BASH COMMANDS

These commands are so easy to use that creating a script for them would be overkill.

🗄 Display filesystem information (disk usage, mount path)

df