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Custom Linux Scripts & Automation
ScriptsA dedicated track for production-ready custom shell scripts: IDE auto-updating, full system update automation, Google Meet CLI launcher, video duration calculator, smart file renaming with undo, and meeting downloaders.
- 01Antigravity IDE Auto-Updater ScriptA Bash updater that finds where Antigravity IDE is installed instead of assuming a path, offers to install it when it is missing, verifies the download before trusting it, and rebuilds the launcher and icon afterwards.16 min read
Abdallah Shehawey
- 02Automating Full System Updates (update-every-thing)A resilient update-every-thing script for Ubuntu and Fedora that retries a failing step a fixed number of times, moves on instead of hanging, and prints a summary of what succeeded, what was skipped, and what failed.17 min read
- 03Google Meet CLI Launcher (meet)A lightweight CLI utility to store, launch, and manage Google Meet links using fzf and xdg-open.2 min read
- 04vidtime: A Tiny CLI for Video DurationA Bash script using ffprobe and awk to print the exact duration of media files and calculate total duration for playlists or folders.1 min read
- 05Smart File Renaming with padnum & rename.shAdvanced numeric prefix formatting with auto-padding detection, dry-run mode, colorized history, multi-level undo support, and regex batch renaming.2 min read
Abdelrahman Adwe Ali
- 06Automating Meeting Downloads and Cloud UploadsA script utilizing yt-dlp with cookies and rclone to download recorded Zoom/Teams meetings automatically and sync them to cloud storage (Google Drive / Mega).1 min read
- 07Custom Zsh Configuration & Productivity Aliases (.zshrc)Custom Zsh configuration file featuring eza/ls aliases, bat, fzf, fastfetch, starship prompt, and custom helper functions.1 min read
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