alephalpha0's scripts.

newlog.sh is a general script to get the new blog entry's title from stdin and concatenate the current date to the beginning and .md to the end and open the resulting file in $EDITOR. Wham bam, thank ya ma'am.

fileDown.sh is the baby beginnings of my third round with creating a script for passing URLs to termux via the android share menu. Requires wget and youtube-dl at this point in history.

figFont.sh is an almost useless script that takes a FIGlet font file name and outputs the banner text to a static file, and the command to regenerate the banner.

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Sources used for reference:

• ebook: TLDP's advanced bash scripting guide - an entire book's worth of reference in one .html file. Excellent explanations.
• article: tput, printf, and shell expansion - well written article over formatting text for shell scripts. Build better TUIs.
• cheatsheet: bash - Cheatsheet over most common parts of Bash scripting.
• wiki: bash hackers - Incredibly in depth wiki over all aspects of using and scripting Bash.
• article: creating a bash script template - article covers setting up your header and various generic blocks in your code for variables, functions, etc.. as well as license and a help feature. etc etc etc.
• RE: ERROR / EXIT / RETURN CODES&STATUS => this article && this Appendix of TLDP.org's ABSG
• FAQ: comp.unix.shell circa 2005 - Oldie but still stock chock full of knowledge vitamins. Gotta love the fact that a 15+ year old FAQ from usenet still is relevent and topical while it approaches the legal age of consent.

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Change Log Abridged:

2020-08-XX In the beginning there was termux-url-opener and ropsync. Neither were very good or interesting. I kept clobbering away at termux-url-opener and creating little explosion scripts trying to get my feet wet. ..

2021-01-XX Termux is my main touchpoint and tool in teaching myself programming, maintaining content with a static site generator, and just general "sysadmin" type shit. Its ability to receive multiple data/URL/URI types shared from various apps and sources is continually sparking my imagination and showing me sidways routes to accomplish things I want. ..

2021-02-10 After changing to another new phone, I am now using the Termux.widget to gain more functionality with my phone and brain.newLog is sitting happily symlinked to ~/.shortcuts and being hacked together at random times. My logic train runs fairly well for it, and I'm oddly proud at what it produces. fileDown is the next incarnation of the script I have Termux use to handle URLs passed to it. Somewhere along the way it dawned on me to use symbolic links so I didn't have to be constrained to default expectations while still fulfilling them.

2021-02-19 I made figFont.sh because I wanted to quickly get a local reference file for FIGlet font styles.