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erincerys / kill-locks.sh

Last active October 6, 2025 12:08

Kill processes holding locks on a given file path by progressively issuing higher severity signals for each PID.

	#!/bin/bash
	# shellcheck disable=SC2086

	#
	# DESCRIPTION:
	# 'safely' kill processes holding file locks for a file path
	# useful for managing mountpoints with user session state changes
	#
	# USAGE:
	# $0 <file-path>

erincerys / safe-kill.sh

Created October 5, 2025 13:58

Issues progressively more severe kill signals to one or more PIDs

erincerys / git-pull-recursively.sh

Created October 5, 2025 13:55

Recursively traverses directories to update Git repositories from remote

	#!/bin/bash

	#
	# DESCRIPTION:
	# iterates through a directory and its subdirectories
	# updating any git repositories from remote
	#

	set +e
	for d in *; do

erincerys / s3-b2-cronjob.sh

Created February 2, 2020 16:13

Backup given sources via restic to AWS S3 at regularity using AWS SNS to notify of result

	#!/bin/bash

	# Requires:
	# - restic (system package)
	# - AWS account with SNS topic configured, S3 bucket created, and API keys created
	# - awscli (pip) with API keys configured (aws configure)
	# - cron implementation (system package)

	ResticBinaryPath=`which restic`
	AwsCliBinaryPath=`which aws`

erincerys / restic-b2-cronjob.sh

Last active February 2, 2020 16:15

Backup given sources via restic to B2 at regularity using SNS to notify of result

	#!/bin/bash

	# Requires:
	# - restic (system package)
	# - AWS account with SNS topic configured and API keys created
	# - awscli (pip) with API keys configured (aws configure)
	# - Backblaze B2 account with API keys
	# - cron implementation (system package)

	ResticBinaryPath=`which restic`

erincerys / check-systemd-service.sh

Last active January 19, 2018 19:37

Script to be remotely invoked by nagios that returns a service's status and can trigger an alarm when down or failed

	#!/bin/bash

	## Checks a systemd controlled service for status and start failures

	SVC_NAME='servicename'
	COUNT_FILE='/tmp/checkservice.counter'

	# load counter from previous checks
	[ -f $COUNT_FILE ] && { COUNT=`cat $COUNT_FILE` ; } \|\| { COUNT=0 ; }

erincerys / .bash_aliases

Last active August 27, 2017 18:39

Bash configuration

	# maintenance
	alias sysupgrade='yaourt -S -y -u --aur'

	# operations
	function gpkill () {
	if [ $1 ] ; then
	TargetPid=`pgrep $1`
	echo 'Sending sigterm'
	kill -15 $TargetPid
	sleep 2

erincerys / xmr-mining-scheduler.sh

Last active October 11, 2017 21:41

Schedule CPU utilization of your cryptocurrency miner around your personal computer use patterns

	#!/bin/bash

	#
	# usage: $0 <cpu-threads>
	#
	# i use this script to schedule times of day when my computer is not in use can max out cpu on the miner
	#
	# example cron entries:
	# 00 06 * * * /path/to/xmr-mining-scheduler.sh 3
	# 00 23 * * * /path/to/xmr-mining-scheduler.sh 4

erincerys / migration-irssi-logs.sh

Created August 8, 2017 04:05

Merge irssi log directories, deleting small files

	#!/bin/bash

	# migrate.sh
	# DESCRIPTION: Parse two directories of logfiles.
	# FUNCTION: Append new files with old ones, delete files that are small, and move new files that aren't present to the old directory.
	# USAGE: bash migrate.sh /path/to/old_logdir /path/to/new_logdir
	# ELABORATION:

	# Settings
	minlines=15 # Threshhold number of lines to delete a logfile

erincerys / personal-backup.sh

Last active January 13, 2019 04:23

Backup directories and directory listings to a LUKS container and sync everything to S3

	#!/bin/bash

	## Description:
	# Sync files to and create lists of directory contents in a LUKS container volume and upload it to S3
	# Good for periodic backup jobs
	# Supports rate limiting, encryption in transit and at rest and file path exclusions

	## Usage:
	# bash $0

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