bash-utils

A curated collection of Bash utilities, aliases, and script snippets for system monitoring, file management, network security, backups, and AI workstation automation.

🧰 Designed for Ubuntu / Debian shells — optimized for power users who live in the terminal.

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⚙️ Contents

Category	Tools & Shortcuts	Description
🗂️ File Management	eza, broot, fd, ripgrep, xcp, rclone, rsync, 7z, zstd, pigz	Modern replacements for ls, find, grep, and compression utilities
💾 Backups & Snapshots	timeshift, borg, rsnapshot, restic	Automated snapshotting and deduplicated backups
🧠 System Info & Performance	btop, htop, iotop, nvtop, perf, lsof, duf, dfc	CPU, memory, disk, GPU, and process visualization tools
🔐 Security & Monitoring	rkhunter, chkrootkit, ufw, fail2ban, firejail, auditd, linpeas	Hardening, sandboxing, and intrusion detection
🧭 Networking & Diagnostics	nmap, tcpdump, wireshark, ss, ip, ethtool, mtr	Network mapping, packet tracing, and bandwidth inspection
⚡ Package / Repo Management	apt-fast, dpkg, snap, flatpak, nala	Faster installs and clean upgrades
☁️ Cloud & Sync	rclone, rclone mount, onedrive, gdrive	Seamless sync and remote file mounting
🧮 Scripting & Automation	Bash snippets, watch, awk, sed, jq, fzf, yq	Parsing, filtering, and interactive shell automation
🧩 AI / Dev Utilities	nvidia-smi, nvcc, torch-smi, ollama, comfyui, huggingface-cli	GPU, AI training, and local model helpers
🧰 Custom Scripts	renhash, gn-fix, dp-recover, update-aliases, sys-info	Personal Bash utilities maintained in this repo

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📦 Installation

git clone https://github.com/kuchida75/bash-utils.git
cd bash-utils
chmod +x bin/*
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/bash-utils/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bashrc
exec $SHELL

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🧩 Example utilities

Script	Purpose
sys-info	quick system summary (CPU, GPU, memory, uptime, distro)
net-ping	ping sweep of local subnet
update-aliases	update all ~/.bash_aliases from repo
renhash	batch file renamer (see renhash)
gn-fix	GNOME/Wayland repair helper (see gn-display-tools)

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💡 Recommended aliases

alias ll='eza -lh --icons --git'
alias la='eza -lah --icons'
alias gs='git status -sb'
alias gc='git commit -m'
alias gp='git push'
alias update='sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y && sudo apt autoremove -y'
alias extract='dtrx'
alias compress='tar -czvf'
alias ports='sudo lsof -i -P -n | grep LISTEN'

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🧾 License

MIT — see LICENSE.

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🤝 Contributing

Pull requests welcome!
Add your script in bin/ with a short description and one-line usage comment at the top:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
# sys-info — quick system info summary

Then run:

bash -n bin/* && shellcheck bin/*