Week of bash scripts – rps and commentstrip

These two scripts will respectively: find if a program is running, and strip-comments from text files. The first is useful if you need to see if the program is running or if you need to kill the process with it’s id, comment strip is a good tool to use if posting configurations on forums as often developers or advanced users already know what the settings actually do.

rps

aspire ~/.scripts:
rps geany
todd      1827  0.1  0.3 184576 28616 ?        S    May31   1:05 geany

	#!/bin/bash
	# Running program search
	ps aux | grep --color=always -i "$@" | grep -v grep | grep -v "$0"

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commentstrip

Commentstrip will display the output to the terminal. If you got xclip installed the ‘c’ option can be used to copy the output to the clipboard.

	#!/bin/bash
	# Output file without comments or blanklines
	# Display usage if no parameters given
	if [ -z $1 ]; then
	echo " ${0##*/} <*c> <filename> - print file w/o comments/blanklines - (c)lipboard"
	exit 1
	fi
	case $1 in
	# Copy output to xorg server clipboard
	c ) shift
	# Check if selection exists
	if [ ! -f "$@" ]; then
	echo " Selection \""$@"\" does not exist." && exit
	fi
	# Exit if root (root doesn't have access to user xorg server)
	if [[ `whoami` == root ]]; then
	echo " Copying to clipboard cannot be user root" && exit
	else
	grep -vh '^[[:space:]]*\(#\|$\)' "$@" | xclip -selection c
	echo " Comments stripped from file and copied to xorg server clipboard"
	fi
	;;
	# Print output to terminal
	* ) if [ ! -f "$@" ]; then
	echo " Selection \""$@"\" does not exist." && exit
	fi
	grep -vh '^[[:space:]]*\(#\|$\)' "$@" ;;
	esac

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The final day of week of bash scripts… phew! I’d like to thank everyone that posted comments, and to those that stopped by this week.