In my daily routine, I perform several boring task like cleanning up my current directory or make an archive from a set of files. Typing the correct command set each time is both time consuming and error-prone, hence I created some small scripts that helps me with theses tasks.

AD Tools

AD Tools is script collection that provides some of my scripts as a Debian/Ubuntu package :

clean: recursive clean to temporary files in directory;
package: archive a file or directory using a special pattern.

Download

You can get the lastest version of adtools using git or browse the source.

git clone git://git.lohrun.net/adtools.git

You can also download the Debian/Ubuntu package :

adtools.deb.

Changelog

The current version is 1.3.

Changes since 1.2

clean: add Windows's 'Thumbs.db' to the list of temporary files
clean: add '.#*' to the list of temporary files
clean: improve matching of core.* files
clean: improve performance using a smaller number of expression

Changes since 1.1:

package: fix issues with file/directory name containing a space (reported by Arkhyl).

Backup

During my Ph.D. I developped a small backup script to replicate my user data on several other computer. The script ran daily for about a year to save my data on one of my lab server.

This script is available under the GNU GPLv2 licence. You can get the script here, instructions are provided in comments:

backup.sh.