2022-07-17

Matrox Monarch 5-minute video recordings assembled for Youtube.

This is a short bash scirpt I used to compose 5-minute mov files into one mpg file to upload to Youtube. We have a Matrox Monarch that records locally to flash drive, and the 5-minute videos must be put together later, if we don't stream directly to Youtube.
 
/usr/bin/rm -rf xfilelist

for i in `ls -1 *.mov`;

do echo "file $i"  >> xfilelist

done

ffmpeg -safe 0 -f concat -i xfilelist -vcodec copy -acodec copy $1.mov


2022-07-16

Various scripts to delete unnecessary odd characters from file names and directory/folder names

These are short bash scripts I wrote to delete characters mostly 
from MP3, JPG, MP4, and DOC/TXT filenames

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del-2dash
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
 for xdir in $(find . -type d | egrep "\-\-")
 do mv -v $xdir ${xdir//--/-}
  echo $xdir
 done
 for file in $(find . -type f | egrep "\-\-")
 do mv -v $file ${file//--/-}
  echo $file
 done
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del-ampersand
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
 for xfile in $(find . -type d)
        do
        echo $xfile | grep "\&" && {
                echo changing $xfile;
                mv -v "$xfile" ${xfile//\&/And}
                }
        done

 for xfile in $(find . -type f)
        do
        echo $xfile | grep "\&" && {
                echo changing $xfile;
                mv -v "$xfile" ${xfile//\&/And}
                }
        done
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del-comma
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
 for xdir in $(find . -type d | grep ",")
 do mv -v $xdir ${xdir//,/-}
  echo $xdir
 done
 for file in $(find . -type f | grep ",")
 do mv -v $file ${file//,/-}
  echo $file
 done
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del-dashdot
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
 for xdir in $(find . -type d | egrep "\-\.")
 do mv -v $xdir ${xdir//-./.}
  echo $xdir
 done
 for file in $(find . -type f | egrep "\-\.")
 do mv -v $file ${file//-./.}
  echo $file
 done
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del-dothtm
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
 for xdir in $(find . -type d | grep ".htm.")
 do mv -v $xdir ${xdir//.htm./.}
  echo $xdir
 done
 for file in $(find . -type f | grep ".htm.")
 do mv -v $file ${file//.htm./.}
  echo $file
 done
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del-fnspaces
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")

 mv -v $1 ${1// /}
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del-mp3s
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
 for file in $(find . -type f | grep "\.MP3-mono\.mp3")
 do mv -v $file ${file//\.MP3-mono\.mp3/\.mp3}
 done
 for file in $(find . -type f | grep "\.mp3-mono\.mp3")
 do mv -v $file ${file//\.mp3-mono\.mp3/\.mp3}
 done
 for file in $(find . -type f | grep "\.wav-mono\.wav")
 do mv -v $file ${file//\.wav-mono\.mp3/\.mp3}
 done
 for file in $(find . -type f | grep "\.WAV-mono\.wav")
 do mv -v $file ${file//\.WAV-mono\.mp3/\.mp3}
 done
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del-offical
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
 for xdir in $(find . -type d | grep -i "official")
 do mv -v $xdir ${xdir//OfficialAudio/}
 mv -v $xdir ${xdir//OfficialAudio/}
  echo $xdir
 done
 for file in $(find . -type f | grep -i "official")
 do mv -v $file ${file//OfficialAudio/}
 mv -v $file ${file//OfficialAudio/}
  echo $file
 done
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del-offical2
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
 for xdir in $(find . -type d | grep -i "official")
 do mv -v $xdir ${xdir//OfficialAudio/}
 mv -v $xdir ${xdir//OfficialAudio/}
  echo $xdir
 done
 for file in $(find . -type f | grep -i "official")
 do mv -v $file ${file//officialaudio/}
 mv -v $file ${file//officialaudio/}
  echo $file
 done
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del-paren
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
 for file in $(find . -type f)
 do mv -v $file ${file//\(/} 2>> /dev/null
 done
 for file in $(find . -type f)
 do mv -v $file ${file//\)/} 2>> /dev/null
 done
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del-periods
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
 for file in $(find . -type d | grep ".")
 do
        echo $file
        mv -v $file ${file//./}
 done
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del-singlequote
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
 for xdir in $(find . -type d)
        do
        echo $xdir | grep "'" && {
                echo changing $xdir;
                mv -v "$xdir" "${xdir//\'/And}"
                }
        done

 for xfile in $(find . -type f)
        do
        echo $xfile | grep "'" && {
                echo changing $xfile;
                mv -v "$xfile" "${xfile//\'/And}"
                }
        done
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del-spaces
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
 for xdir in $(find . -type d | grep " ")
 do mv -v $xdir ${xdir// /}
 done
 for xfile in $(find . -type f | grep " ")
 do mv -v $xfile ${xfile// /}
 done
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del-sqbracket
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
 for xdir in $(find . -type d | grep "\[")
 do mv -v $xdir ${xdir//\[/-}
  echo $xdir
 done
 for file in $(find . -type f | grep "\[")
 do mv -v $file ${file//\[/-}
  echo $file
 done
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del-sqbracket2
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
 for xdir in $(find . -type d | egrep "\]")
 do mv -v $xdir ${xdir//\]/}
  echo $xdir
 done
 for file in $(find . -type f | egrep "\]")
 do mv -v $file ${file//\]/}
  echo $file
 done
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del-sync-conflicts
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#!/usr/bin/bash
IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")

 for file in $(find . -type f | grep "sync\-conflict\-")
 do  echo "$file"
         rm -rf "$file"
 done

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del-underscores
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IFS=$(echo -en "\n\b")
 for xdir in $(find . -type d | grep "_")
 do mv -v $xdir ${xdir//_/-}
  echo $xdir
 done
 for file in $(find . -type f | grep "_")
 do mv -v $file ${file//_/-}
  echo $file
 done
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Linux Perl script to run to monitor load average and send an a lert

#!/usr/bin/perl

$load = `/usr/bin/uptime`;

$load =~ /\s+load average:\s+(\S+),\s+/;
#print $1, "\n";

$me = `/bin/hostname`;

$load = $1;

if ($load > 5.5) {
        #system("/usr/bin/logger -p daemon.emerg load-ave-alert  load $load.");
        system("/usr/bin/wall load-ave-alert load $load.");
        $DATE = `/bin/date +'%Y%m%d%H%M'`;
        open(DOMAIL,"| /bin/mail -s \"load-ave-alert $me load high\" root");
        print DOMAIL "$me load is $load at $DATE";
        close(DOMAIL);
        }


exit;
# It seems likely with all the restrictrions on email servers due to spam, that 
# the email would work only locally on the Linux system
# This script could be fork with more perl scripting on with the "nohup" command
#
=============================================
#!/usr/bin/bash
# bash script to fork the perl script above
echo $*
(/usr/bin/nohup $* > /tmp/nohup$$.txt &)&
==================================================
# you could this for the perl script to fork itself after the first line #!/usr/bin/perl

$dofork = 1;
if ($dofork) {
if (open(PS, "/bin/ps ax | /bin/grep \"ping2failure $target\" | /bin/grep -v gre
p |")) {
    @psax = ;
    close(PS);
    #print "@psax";
    for(@psax) {
        s/^\s+//g;
        #print $_;
        if (/ping2failure $target/) {
            #print "$_";
            ($pid, @stuff) = split(/\s+/);
            #print "$$ pid is $pid and $stuff[0]\n";
            if ($pid != $$) {
                die "$target already being waited on\n";
                 # no reason to run if already doing this
            }
        }
    }
}
# deal with stdin, stdout, stderr, control terminal, and put self
# in background
$TIOCNOTTY = 0x20007471;
close(stdin);
open(stdout, ">/dev/null");
open(stderr, ">/dev/null");
if (open(tty, "/dev/tty")) {
    ioctl(tty, $TIOCNOTTY, 0);
    close(tty);
}
if (fork) {
    exit 0;
}
}

2022-07-15

Unable to set a default app - no "always use this app to open"

Thanks to Microsoft for making Windows 11 nearly impossible to set your favorite apps or programs to enjoy your own media like pictures, music, mp3's, podcasts, even text files.  You must use regedit to search registry for the "NoOpenWith" variable and delete this string within the appropriate context.  

For example, within these folders of the stated hive, HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT:

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\jpegfile

or 

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.jpg]

or

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AppX43hnxtbyyps62jhe9sqpdzxn1790zetc]



Solar radio-related weather


Current solar image from NASA SOHO


2022-05-17

playable DVD software for Windows

For free Windows software from sourceforge.net for burning playable DVD from mp4 and vod etc

Matrox Monarch 5-minute video recordings assembled for Youtube.

This is a short bash scirpt I used to compose 5-minute mov files into one mpg file to upload to Youtube. We have a Matrox Monarch that rec...