I always write little scripts and aliases that help me from time to time. I just wanted to share some of my newest simple scripts. There are probably better or easier ways to do, but writing and testing them is fun too. Both make use of the 7z
command, a commandline archive tool. Posting it here, so anyone can steal them. They are freshly written, so maybe there are edge cases.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Calculate CRC32 for each file.
if [ "${#}" -eq 0 ]; then
echo "crc32sum files..."
echo "crc32sum *.smc"
else
7z h -- "${@}" |
\grep --after-context "${#}" '^-------- ------------- ------------$' |
\grep --before-context "${#}" '^-------- ------------- ------------$' |
awk '{print $1 "\t" $3}' |
\grep -P '^[0-9A-Z]+\t'
fi
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Create one archive for each file or folder.
if [ "${#}" -eq -1 ]; then
echo "toarchive ext files..."
echo "toarchive zip *.smc"
else
ext="${1}"
shift
opt=()
stop_parse=false
for arg in "${@}"; do
if [ ! "${stop_parse}" == true ]; then
if [ "${arg}" == "--" ]; then
stop_parse=true
opt+=(--)
continue
elif [[ "${arg}" =~ ^- ]]; then
opt+=("${arg}")
continue
fi
fi
file="${arg}"
7z a "${opt[@]}" "${file}.${ext}" "${file}"
done
fi
i’d image that you’d use other tools to do that and i ask because you’re not the first to extol 7z instead of the old tools that us greybeards of come accustomed to using over the last decades; i dont wanna be left behind to ossify. lol
Well I used to use gzip to create
.gz
files. But as I use 7z a lot, that inspired me to write this function to get a similar functionality. Only the auto delete original files is not implemented. Maybe in the future. BTW I also usetar
for backing up files with a custom backup script. Want to share it someday too, but never got around to make it usable for others. So at least I’m half greybeard. :Dif you want to be a full greybeard, just tell them to rtfm instead of making it for them. lol