Description of example script programs (some may be quite useful to reuse in whole or in part, others are examples of (more-or-less) throw-away scripts used to solve specific short-term problems or accomplish particular needed tasks of the week/day/hour/moment, and may not necessarily have so high a reusability factor) Fetchmail fetchmail and Fetchyahoo Fetchyahoo fetchyahoo possibly using multiple configuration files README.txt this file Strace invoke strace with certain options set chkargs report on arguments and without any potential interpretation by echo (useful example of eval and <<-) dingding ring bell repeatedly, optionally specifying seconds (default of 1) between each ring htmlquote quote some text such that it can be placed within an HTML comment htmlunquote undo effect of htmlquote ipv4sort Take IPv4 addresses in dotted quad notation, and sort them in IP order (numerically by each quad) many_volumes construct a large number of volumes based on a concise specification list of disk group, volume size, quantity, disk (LUN), and (optionally) starting sequence offset; example from Digital UNIX 4.0F LSM (rather/quite similar to Sun and Veritas Volume Manager - except the names of most all the commands change slightly) mdtmtouch touch(1) files based on MDTM obtained via ftp(1) myX some X initiallization - though this could be run as a script, I'd typically have it read in (.) and executed by the shell in the X xterm "controlling" program (so it would get the job control of the backgrounded processes) vical open up a vi session on "$HOME"/calendar starting at the first matched of a few possible date based patterns (or if none are matched, simply start a vi session on "$HOME"/calendar) viewinfo open up a vi read-only (-R) session on a set of processed output from the info(1) command viewman open up a vi read-only (-R) session on processed output from the man command wake_up send some text pages at certain times to certain folks as a 'wakup call' xtermtitle set title of xterm and some terminal types with sufficiently similar capabilities