Arch Linux tools

Various command line tools for Arch Linux

About

This repository has various practical developer/sysadmin-oriented tools for Arch Linux.

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Contents

• bash.bashrc

  • Drop into /etc/ system folder
  • Use with bash.custom file

• bash.custom

  • Drop into /etc/ system folder or install using PKGBUILD
  • Enable various customizations in your bash environment
  • Improve usability and visual feedback of bash shell

tools

Various shell tools, bundled in a custom archtools package. See PKGBUILD and contents of shell tools for details.

Tool	Description
archrisks	Get security risk severity & count of installed packages on Arch Linux
bininfo	Show information about an executable in PATH on Arch Linux
buildpkg	Build a local package on the current directory which has PKGBUILD on Arch Linux
deltmpfiles	Delete current temporary files from pre-defined locations
dummypkg	Create a dummy Arch Linux package
extract	Extract wide range of various archive types with native tools
findinpkg	Find text patterns & print occurences with matching lines numbers in Arch Linux package files
findmatch	Grep/List matching strings in a specific folder
findpkg	Search package in official Arch Linux repositories
genmac	Generate a random MAC address for a Systemd-configured network interface
getsource	Get build files from official Arch Linux repositories and AUR repositories
killns	Send signal to a process running in a specific Linux namespace (see man 7 signal)
killprocess	Kill a process by its name
missinglibs	List missing package libraries for a local, installed Arch Linux package
nowner	Find orphan files on various Linux distributions
pkgdeps	Recursive shared library & executable dependency finder for Arch Linux
pkginfo	Gather package information with pacman on Arch Linux
psns	List processes, their users and PIDs and their namespace name in current Linux namespaces
showpkg	Show specific package version - installed and available version
specialchars	Show special characters which need to be escaped in shell
ssh_timezone	Automatically retrieve timezone information for SSH users
tputcolors	Display shell colors
whichcmd	Find available commands in PATH by input syntax
whichport	Which TCP/UDP port number is associated with an application protocol
whichservice	Which application protocol is associated with a TCP/UDP port number

pacman

DISCLAIMER: These modifications are fully compliant with Pacman version 5.1.3-1. Newer versions have not been tested.

File	Description	Permissions
/usr/local/bin/makepkg	Get sources without security checks; Ask user whether to install missing deps automatically; Prompt whether to enforce package compilation without missing deps; Implement support for --getsource parameter (works with, and requires getsource command)	0755
/usr/local/bin/pacmankeycheck.sh	Check age of Pacman PGP/GPG public key ring files and prompt updating them during pacman execution if they are too old (30 days).	0644
/usr/local/bin/pacman	A simple wrapper which runs pacmankeycheck.sh and then your original pacman command.	0755
/usr/share/makepkg/source/git.sh	Modified makepkg source file; allow use of additional git command parameters.	0644
/usr/share/makepkg/source.sh	Modified makepkg source file; use shallow git repository cloning (parameter --depth 1) instead of cloning full git repository when downloading package source code with makepkg. This is useful with large packages when only the most recent files from them are wanted and full git repository cloning mode is not desired.	0644

File paths above represent the intended deployment location on your Arch Linux file system.

stderred

PKGBUILD for stderred. As the build script description says, it hooks into STDERR output to print all CLI errors in red".

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License

This repository uses GPLv3 license. Please see LICENSE files for details.