For the past couple of months I have been tweaking a set of Linux shell scripts that I wrote to automatically create sitemaps, extract URLs, split files into small chunks and convert URLs to hyperlinks. The scripts have proved useful to me and so I created a wrapper for them, added them into the wrapper as plugins and called the whole project Scriptilitious.

You might already have read about Scriptilitious in one of my earlier JournalXtra posts about sitemaps. If you have previously downloaded it then I suggest you check your Scriptilitious version number because I update and add to the scripts every month or so.

Currently, the wrapper, aka the ScriptBox, only serves to make the plugin scripts smaller while keeping them and their output files tidy and providing a menu for them. I intend to implement a nice ncurses window and menu system at some point in the future – probably when it’s a profitable venture or during a cold winter night when I have little else to do.

Back to the point, Scriptilitious currently contains five Linux Bash scripts that are designed to make it easier and quicker to manipulate certain large text files without having to continuously type in sed and awk scripts or call various other Linux shell commands like split, expand, grep and unique.