http://netvouz.com/Xyzzy/tag/shell_scripts?feed=rss Xyzzy's bookmarks tagged "shell_scripts" on Netvouz http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-create-wine-desktop-launcher.html Sometimes, items can be launched with WINE seemingly only from the terminal, and fail if you use an icon/menu... This shows how to create a shell script useful for booting such programs from an icon/menu. Computers & Electronics Xyzzy Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:06:11 GMT http://www.linux-live.org/ "Linux Live is a set of shell scripts which allows you to create your own Live Linux from an already installed Linux distribution. The Live system you create will be bootable from CD-ROM or a disk device, for example USB Flash Drive, USB Pen Drive, Camera connected to USB port, and so on." Computers & Electronics Xyzzy Sun, 21 Feb 2010 08:30:10 GMT http://syslinux.zytor.com/doc/usbkey.txt script for writing bootable USB keys in USB-ZIP mode Computers & Electronics Xyzzy Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:27:45 GMT http://www.linux-mag.com/id/7696/2/ Interesting ways to use the commandline & some simple scripting to start programs with extra capabilities or perform more complex operations (i.e. take a list of files & open them but only one at a time as you finish with the previous one). Computers & Electronics Xyzzy Thu, 11 Feb 2010 10:10:29 GMT http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz Free highly-detailed ebook about Linux at the command-line (tags include SOME of the topics). Computers & Electronics Xyzzy Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:53:42 GMT http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6415 Article on shell scripts & config file tricks to give you new innovative shortcuts for controlling X, both with the keyboard & mouse. Includes emulated mouse-clicks/movement with xbut & xwit; using xev to get the numerical keycodes for certain keys/clicks; getting screenshots via commandline/shell-script; and far more... Computers & Electronics Xyzzy Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:39:24 GMT http://sdjf.esmartdesign.com/scripts/shortsh.html An explanation of using shell scripts & aliases on the Zaurus, along with some favorite scripts. Computers & Electronics Xyzzy Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:00:36 GMT http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html Control X from the command line for scripts, and do "visual scraping" to find things on the screen. The conrol interface allows mouse movement, clicking, button up/down, key up/down, etc, and uses the XTest extension so you don't have the annoying problems that xse has when apps ignore sent events. The visgrep program find images inside of images and reports the coordinates, allowing progams to find buttons, etc, on the screen to click on. Computers & Electronics Xyzzy Thu, 11 Feb 2010 09:43:05 GMT