Scripts

This is a memory sink article. I found this nice python script which reboots a B525 router and wanted to write a wrapper script around it. #!/bin/bash # refs: https://github.com/jinxo13/HuaweiB525Router, https://github.com/mkorz/b618reboot RUNDIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )" MAX_ATTEMPTS=10 ATTEMPT=0 TIMEOUT=60 LOCK_FILE=$RUNDIR/lock REMOTE=google.com LOCAL=192.168.7.1 if [ -f $LOCK_FILE ]; then echo "Already running, exiting" exit -1 fi function finish { rm $RUNDIR/lock } trap finish EXIT touch $RUNDIR/lock while (( $ATTEMPT < $MAX_ATTEMPTS )) do DATE=$(date +%Y%d%m-%H%M%S) echo -e "GET http://$REMOTE HTTP/1....

After spending loosing time in vain trying to convert kml files containing the gx:Track format to gpx files for my gps and finally writing my own tool for doing that I realized I have done quite a lot of small scripts for gps data manipulation and decided to push them on github. I started with 2 and as I will clean the others I will push them also. # [](https://github.com/len-ro/py-gps-tools#py-gps-tools)py-gps-tools A set of python scripts to manipulate GPS data...

Since my last laptop with a working CD drive is dying this a simple script which does the following ops once the CD is inserted and auto-mounter: finds the mount point copies the files ejects the CD <pre lang="bash">cd "$(cat /proc/mounts | grep iso9660 | cut -d' ' -f2 | sed -e 's#\\040# #g')" && cp * /media/backup/data/ && cd && eject /dev/sr0

find . -mtime 1 -type f -print0 | tar -czvf $SYNC_DIR/$BFILE -T - --null

… and some other observations. Warning: use at your own risk! I used to keep some of my photo backups on an external Seagate 500G drive which I also use for travel. Today however as I tried to access it I noticed some problems so I quickly ran: smartctl -t long /dev/sdb #followed by smartctl -l selftest #the result Extended offline Completed: <strong>read failure</strong> 90% 109 <strong>414996448</strong> I started using this useful guide to correct the problems by repeatedly running smartctl, calculating the offset, finding the file with debugfs, forcing reallocation with dd and so on....