bin

A collection of short utility scripts.

Usage

export PATH=$HOME/bin/local:$HOME/bin:$PATH

Scripts

Script	Description
ai	Run an Ollama model interactively or with input from $EDITOR
arp-ip	Resolve a MAC address to an IP address via ARP
asound-id	Get ALSA sound card ID by name
audio-title	Display currently playing audio title from various sources
backlight	Adjust display backlight brightness
base64-img	Encode an image file as a base64 data URI
battery	Show battery status for UPower, Razer and headset devices
bench	Benchmark a command by running it N times
bios	Print BIOS version from DMI
btrfs-du	Show disk usage for a btrfs snapshot
castd	Chromecast control daemon
castd-cmd	Send a command to the castd daemon
cate	Cat a file with escape sequence interpretation
cava-frame	Render a cava audio visualizer frame as Unicode block characters
cavad	Daemon to manage cava, restarting on audio sink changes
ccd-temp	Show average AMD CCD temperature
cert	Fetch a TLS certificate from a remote host
certparse	Parse and display an X.509 certificate from stdin
cidr	List all IP addresses in a CIDR range
clip	Copy stdin or a file to the clipboard
cmd-exists	Check if a command exists
colors	Display terminal ANSI color palette
compiz-plugin	List, enable or disable Compiz plugins
cpu	Print CPU model and thread count
cpu-governor	Show the current CPU frequency scaling governor
cpu-status	Show CPU utilization and temperature
cpu-temp	Show AMD k10temp Tctl temperature
cpu-util	Show CPU utilization percentage
csr	Generate an OpenSSL certificate signing request
deleted	List running processes whose binaries have been deleted
dnf	dnf wrapper that elevates for privileged operations
discord	Launch Discord via tray wrapper
discord-tray	Run Discord with a GTK system tray icon
disk	List non-removable disk models
display-mode	Set display color temperature and brightness for day/night
dns	Resolve a domain name to IP addresses
dnxhr	Transcode a video file to DNxHR HQ format
doh-check	Check if DNS-over-HTTPS is active
drain-stdin	Drain pending stdin input before exec'ing a command
echopass	Prompt for a password and echo it to stdout
ediff	Open two files in Emacs ediff
edit	Open a file in the preferred editor
eman	View man pages in Emacs
enc	Re-encode a video file with a specified audio codec
epoch	Convert epoch timestamp to date, or print current epoch
esc	Shell-escape each line of input
eslint-dir	Run ESLint on all JS files in a directory
evalias	Execute a command with shell aliases expanded
fangd	Fan speed control daemon driven by temperature curves
fetch	Display system information summary (CPU, RAM, GPU, etc.)
font-touch	Force GTK font reload by toggling the font setting
foreign-pkgs	List installed foreign packages not in the AUR
forp	Run a command in parallel over line-delimited arguments
fx-remove-favicons	Remove favicons for specified domains from the Firefox database
gecos	Print GECOS field for a user from /etc/passwd
genmon	Wrap a command's output as Xfce genmon XML with tooltip
gif	Convert a video file to an animated GIF
git-sign-all	GPG re-sign all commits in a Git repository
github	Open GitHub pages for the current repository in a browser
gpg	GPG wrapper that sets GNUPGHOME for the configured key
gpu	Print GPU model from lspci
gpu-glx	Print the OpenGL renderer string
gtk-inspect	Launch an application with the GTK inspector enabled
headset-battery	Show wireless headset battery level
hex	Hex dump the first N bytes of a file
hostname-pretty	Print the pretty hostname
hwmon	Query hwmon sensors by device and sensor name
ibm-fan	Show ThinkPad fan speed
if-ip	Show the IP address of a network interface
ifspeed	Show link speed for all network interfaces
imgur	Upload an image to Imgur
immutables	Find files with the immutable attribute set
kat	Cat a file, suppressing errors
keep	Restart a program if it exits, with crash detection
kernel	Show the latest upstream Linux kernel version
krbcc	Print the Kerberos credential cache path for a user
ktinit	Initialize a Kerberos keytab for a user
limit	Run a program with a network bandwidth limit
local-cert	Generate a local CA and signed TLS certificate
lock-1password	Lock 1Password
lock-all	Lock all credential stores (1Password, GPG, keyring, SSH)
lock-gpg	Kill and reload the GPG agent to clear cached passphrases
lock-keyring	Lock the GNOME keyring
lock-ssh-agent	Remove all keys from the SSH agent
lock-ssh-sockets	Remove SSH control master sockets
lockdown	Lock all credential stores and lock the screen
makepkg	Wrapper for makepkg with dedicated GPG keyring and nice priority
makepkg-key	Manage the makepkg GPG keyring
makepkgs	Build multiple packages in parallel
march-native	Print the GCC -march=native architecture string
mdstatus	Show software RAID sync status
mem	Print total system memory
mem-dmi	Print memory details from DMI/SMBIOS
mem-dt	Print total memory from device tree
mem-util	Show used memory with optional threshold indicator
mime	Print the MIME type of a file
mindiff	Diff two files with token-level granularity
mksrcinfo	Generate .SRCINFO from PKGBUILD via makepkg
model	Print the system model/product name
modparam	Show parameters for a loaded kernel module
modtaint	List tainted kernel modules
motd	Display message of the day with system info
mounts	Display system mounts in a formatted, colorized table
murder	Kill all processes owned by a user
next-window	Focus the next window matching the active window class
nicely	Run a command with low CPU and I/O priority
node	Node.js wrapper with custom REPL and flags
node-debug	Run Node.js with the debugger attached
notes	Open the notes file in the preferred editor
nocsd	Run a GTK application with client-side decorations disabled
nocsd-theme	Run a GTK application with CSD disabled and the Adwaita dark theme
notify-sound	Play a notification sound
npu	Print NPU model from lspci
nv-status	Show NVIDIA GPU utilization and temperature
nv-temp	Show NVIDIA GPU temperature
nv-util	Show NVIDIA GPU utilization percentage
nvme-temp	Show NVMe drive temperature
one	Run a program only if it is not already running
open	Open files or URLs with xdg-open
opencode	Wrap opencode with API key loading from pass and stdin drain
os-name	Print the OS pretty name from /etc/os-release
pacman-dev-upgrade	Upgrade VCS (git/hg/svn/bzr) packages
pacman-dnf	Translate a pacman command to its dnf/rpm equivalent
pacman-lastsync	Show the last pacman mirror sync time
pacman-mirror	Print the first configured pacman mirror URL
pause	Run a command, then wait for a keypress
pdf	Merge multiple PDFs into one
pick-color	Open a color picker dialog
pidage	Show the age of a process
pidenv	Show environment variables for a process
pinentry-user	Pinentry wrapper that selects backend by PINENTRY_USER_DATA
pip-update	Upgrade all outdated pip user packages
pkgsource	Fetch Arch Linux package sources from repos or AUR
pkgver	Print the installed version of a package
pkgw	Show package info for a command or file
plex-music-title	Print currently playing Plex music artist and title
pnpm	pnpm wrapper with convenience subcommands
prompt-color	Output an ANSI color code for the shell prompt
pylon.py	X11 window management utility library
qrdecode	Decode a QR code from an image file
qrreencode	Decode and re-encode a QR code image
qrscan	Capture a screen region and decode a QR code from it
razer	Query Razer device properties via OpenRazer
razer-battery	Show Razer device battery levels
rdp	Connect to an RDP host using a saved profile
resolve-dl	Open the DaVinci Resolve Linux download page for the latest build
rgb	Convert a hex color to RGB decimal values
rhythmbox	Launch Rhythmbox with dconf settings preloaded
rhythmbox-seek	Seek forward or backward in Rhythmbox
rhythmbox-title	Print currently playing Rhythmbox artist and title
rofi-run	Launch rofi application launcher
runas	Run a command as another user via machinectl
samefile	Find all hard links to a file
scan	Scan a document from a flatbed scanner
screen	GNU Screen wrapper with named session support
scup	Restart active services with pending markers in /run/scup
shot	Take a screenshot and copy it to the clipboard
signal	Launch Signal Desktop with tray icon
spdx	List known SPDX license identifiers
sscert	Generate a self-signed SSL certificate
ssh-aliases	List SSH host aliases from config
ssh-config	Show resolved SSH config options for a host
ssh-forget-host	Remove a host from SSH known_hosts
ssh-host	Resolve an SSH alias to its hostname
ssh-host-fingerprint	Show SSH host key fingerprints
ssh-mount	Mount a remote filesystem over SSHFS
ssh-umount	Unmount an SSHFS mount
startx	Start X11 with a clean session
steam	Launch Steam with MangoHud and NVIDIA Proton settings
stock	Look up a stock quote by ticker symbol
surveil	Watch files and re-run a command on changes
sys-update	Run system update functions defined in ~/.sys-update
systemctl	systemctl wrapper that auto-elevates with sudo
tap	Watch a script file and re-run it on changes
tarball	Create or extract a zstd-compressed tarball
teams-busylight	Drive a busylight based on Microsoft Teams status
teams-status	Print the current Microsoft Teams status
teams-tray	Microsoft Teams system tray icon with notification support
term-color	Set the terminal background color
termwin	Open a new terminal window
thunar	Launch Thunar with a clean config
timer	Countdown timer with system tray icon and notification
toggle	Toggle a program on or off by PID
try	Retry a command until it succeeds
ucode	Print the CPU microcode revision
uneject	Close ejected optical/disk trays
unlock-gpg	Unlock a GPG key by performing a dummy sign operation
unlock-pass	Unlock the GPG key used by the password store
update-check	Check for available Arch Linux package updates
upower-battery	Show battery levels from UPower
uptimes	Print system uptime in human-readable format
users-enabled	List user accounts with active passwords
userscriptd	HTTP bridge daemon for browser userscript integrations
utc	Print a date in UTC
vid	Extract a clip from a video file
viewport	Manage X11 virtual desktop viewports
volume	Adjust PulseAudio playback volume
vulns	Show CPU vulnerability mitigations
win-ver	Print the Windows version (from WSL)
wsl-clip	Copy stdin or a file to the Windows clipboard from WSL
wsl-cmd	Open a Windows cmd.exe shell from WSL
wsl-env-var	Read a Windows environment variable from WSL
wsl-exec	Execute a Windows binary from WSL with line ending cleanup
wsl-interop	Restore WSL interop for Windows binary execution
wsl-is-rdp	Check if the WSL session is over RDP
wsl-lock	Lock the Windows workstation from WSL
wsl-mount-drvfs	Mount Windows DrvFs filesystems configured in fstab from WSL
wsl-subl	Open files in Windows Sublime Text from WSL
wsl-ver	Print the WSL version
wsl-wt	Open a Windows Terminal profile from WSL with optional elevation
wx	Show current weather conditions
x86-64-level	Print the x86-64 microarchitecture level (v1–v4)
xbindkeys	Launch xbindkeys with optional local config
xdg-dirs	List all XDG directory environment variables
xdg-open	xdg-open wrapper with custom URI scheme handling
youtube-get-title	Get and cache a YouTube video title
yt-music-title	Print currently playing YouTube Music artist and title
yubico-tray	Yubico Authenticator system tray icon