Ubuntu

Some Useful SHELL SCRIPTs:
How to use these Shell scripts (INSTALLATION):

First Download any script.Make the file executable (if not ) by this command

Now move/copy the script to

here touhid is my user name. Change it according to Your's.
Now you will find a menu called Scripts when you click the right button of mouse.And inside that you will find all of your scripts.

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SCRIPTS:

1# Make Me The Owner Of This File:
Sometime you will find some files both in filesystem and your disk drives that you cannot edit/modify/give executing permission/delete them because those own by root.With command line you can easily solve this problem.But its disgusting sometimes to open the termial and write some codes for a single file.With this script you can easy make any file yours and then you can modify them.Just select the file and right click on it;navigate to the scripts menu and choose this scripts.You will be asked for the user password.And yes u r done .

Download:(right click and save as)

MakeMeOwner

2# Set Any Image As Desktop Background With Options:
Ubuntu Desktop backrgound can be added/changed throuhg
system>.........
.If you dont want to do this long procedure and just want to set any picture as desktop background with just a click then use this script.When you will use this script you will be asked to chose a option whether you want to set the image as zoomed/centered/scaled/.....

Download:(right click and save as)

SetAsWallpaper

3# Copy/Move files to Home/Desktop with one click: Sometimes it is useful/needed to copy/move file to Home folder or to Desktop.You can ignore the taditional system of copy/cut and use this scripts.Its really helpful sometimes.

Download:(right click and save as)

Move to Home
Move to Desktop
Copy to Home
Copy to Desktop

4# Make a Link/Shortcut of any file to Home/Desktop with one click:
If u need a shortcut/link (the term 'link' is normaly used in linux) to home/desktop you can do with the fist two script listed below.The next one is to make link/shortcut to anywhere.

Download:(right click and save as)

Link to Home
Link to Desktop
Link to Anywhere

5# See the total Disk Space(free space) in your Whole system(whole hard disk):
Generally there is command "df" to show the disk space of your system.But it shows only the disk space for individual drive/removal media.If you want to know the sum of them ,that means if you want to know how much total disk space you have in you Hard Disk,use this script.To use this script at first you must mount all your drive because it shows only the sum of mounted drives.Download the script.Double click and "select run in terminal".

Download:(right click and save as)

Diskspace(double click and run in terminal)

6# Delete a File forever (Shred):
If you delete a file with just delete button in keybord you will find the file in ".Trash" folder located in the root of that drive.If you delete a file with shift+delete you will not find the file in your drive anywhere and most people think thoes files are gone forever.But this is not true as there are so many recovery softwares that can bring back your deleted files which you thought gone forever.If you want you file gone forever use this script.

Download:(right click and save as)

Shredder

7# Delete a File forever (Shred):
If you want to download a file and dont have a download manager or if you want to download any file in background you can use this script.This is a wget based download manager .I Hope It Will Help You.

Download:(right click and save as)

Download Manager

8# Remove your temporary/backup files with just one click):
When we use our linux OS with different softwares they creates some temporay files(rm ~ .~ .old .bak .OLD .BAK .....). If you want to delete those temporary files form any folder then use this script.Note that it will not delete all the temporary files in your whole system;just the working directory that is where you are running the script.

Download:(right click and save as)

Remove temporary files

9# Ensure that all environment variables are valid:
For running scripts correctly and without errors All The Environment Variables should be valid or otherwise a script can cause much harm to system.So check the variables and find what is wrong.

Download:(right click and save as)

validator

10# Find the best compression for a file:
For a given file it trys compressing it with all the available compression tools and keep the compressed file that's smallest, reporting the result to the user. If '-a' isn't specified, it skips compressed files in the input stream.

Download:(right click and save as)

bestcompress

11# Scale Image to 5 sizes:
With this script you can scale any image to
1600x1200
1280x1024
1024x768
800x600
640x480

Download:(right click and save as)

scale_Image_To_Sizes

12# Scale Image to Any sizes you give:
With this script you can scale any image to any size you want.This is useful when you want an image that is not a standard size,suppose 100x99.

Download:(right click and save as)

Scale Image To Any Sizes

13# Scale Image to Any sizes you give:
Audacious is a nice (i think the best ) audio player for ubuntu.To add a song to the current playlist you have to drag and drop songs in the plalist window.But with this script you dont have to look in audacious plalist.You can automatically add any song to the current plalist.

Download:(right click and save as)

Enqueue in Audacious

14# Search any file in current directory:
With this you can find any file easily in the current directory.

Download:(right click and save as)

Search Here

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