Little Tool written in Bash

[jeanpaulberes]

Hy all,
hereby a little tool written in pure Bash, with Zenity as GUI ...
I have also the same with Dialog as gui or even a text-based one ;-)
Just wanted to share,
Kind regards,
Jean Paul

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[Jerry3904]

Nice. We use yad instead.

[Adrian]

Nice. We use yad instead.

Any advantage of yad over zenity? Just curious...

[Jerry3904]

I believe the quality and options are better. One good reason though:

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jb@ULTRA:~
$ apt policy zenity
zenity:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 3.22.0-1+b1
  Version table:
     3.22.0-1+b1 500
        500 http://debian.osuosl.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages

[antiX-Dave]

It seems like a nice picture but if sharing the program where do we find it?

As far as I know from memory yad was "yet another dialog" to improve on the idea of zenity and took over as zenity was being discontinued and did not have any available version packaged in the repos

[skidoo]

Any advantage of yad over zenity?

zenity:
-- webkit dependency (bloat, vulnerability vector, and thankfully unneeded by any other program preinstalled in antiX)
-- is a gnome project, has received minimal "maintenance" since 2015 when they "deprecated" (castrated) its GTK2 compatitibility

yad:
++ no webkit dependency (yet)
++ is backward compatible all the way to GTK v2.16 (in other words, nearly universally usable across distros)

[jeanpaulberes]

It seems like a nice picture but if sharing the program where do we find it?

As far as I know from memory yad was "yet another dialog" to improve on the idea of zenity and took over as zenity was being discontinued and did not have any available version packaged in the repos

Hereby the Code for the little script :
<---

#!/bin/bash
#
# Linux Bash script
# created By: Jean Paul BERES
# 11/10/2017

# Updated to show list of Removeable Applications (RC)
# Updated to run CacheCleaner from here
# 01/10/2018

# Updating Script using Zenity (Gtk) dialogs
# 02/10/2018

# Updated Script sorting first Automatic Installed Applications followed by Installed Applications
# 20/11/2018

# Temporary files for Graphical Usage
GrMenu=$(mktemp -t Mnlist.XXX)

# Function using dialog GUI, to be used within terminal mode
#function InstalledSoftware {
#dpkg -l > $SWList
#dialog --textbox $SWList 40 180
#}

#Function for creating list of Installed Applications sorted by Installed Automatic followed by Installed Applications
function InstalledSoftware {
apt list > /tmp/SWList
cat /tmp/SWList |grep "installed,automatic" > /tmp/InstalledSoftwareList
cat /tmp/SWList |grep -v "installed,automatic" > /tmp/TmpSoftware
cat /tmp/TmpSoftware |grep "installed" >> /tmp/InstalledSoftwareList
}

function RemoveableApps {
dpkg -l|grep "^rc" | zenity --text-info --title="Obsolete Packages / removeable Applications" --width 1360 --height 600
}

function GraphicalMenu {
zenity --list \
--title "Software Selection and Cleaning Tool" \
--width 400 --height 220 \
--column " " \
"Overview of installed packages" \
"Removeable Apps" \
"Create OutputList of installed packages" \
"Cache Cleaning Tool" \
"My Cleaning Tool" >$GrMenu
}

while true
do
#Menu
GraphicalMenu 2>/dev/null
# Test if input is valid, if not Quit ... Cancel is pressed
if [ $? -eq 1 ]
then
break
clear
fi

option=$(cat $GrMenu)
case $option in

"Overview of installed packages")
# Installed Applications
InstalledSoftware
cat -n /tmp/InstalledSoftwareList | zenity --text-info --title="Installed Software" --width 1360 --height 600 2>/dev/null ;;

"Removeable Apps")
# Removeable Applications
RemoveableApps ;;

"Create OutputList of installed packages")
InstalledSoftware
cat -n /tmp/InstalledSoftwareList > ~/Documents/ListOfInstalledSoftware
zenity --info --title "Installed Software" --text "List of Installed Software created" ;;

"Cache Cleaning Tool")
clear
~/Documents/CacheCleaner.sh ;;

"My Cleaning Tool")
clear
gksudo ~/Documents/MyLinuxMintCleaner.sh ;;
*)
zenity --info "Sorry, wrong selection !" ;;

esac

done

# Removing the Temporary Files
rm -f $GrMenu 2> /dev/null
rm -f /tmp/SWList 2> /dev/null
rm -f /tmp/TmpSoftware 2> /dev/null
rm -f /tmp/InstalledSoftwareList 2> /dev/null
echo -e "\n"
clear

--->

[Jerry3904]

I get a couple of errors trying to run it:

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$ sh jeanpaulberes.sh 
jeanpaulberes.sh: 27: jeanpaulberes.sh: function: not found

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

jeanpaulberes.sh: 32: jeanpaulberes.sh: Syntax error: "}" unexpected

[fehlix]

Hereby the Code for the little script :

@jeanpaulberes,
please wrap your code into code-tags [code] [/code] by editing of your post, mark the code with the mouse and click on the code-tag icon </> above the editor-window.
Thanks

[rasat]

Create OutputList of installed packages
1) There is no indication where output list was created. I had to read the script, where it went.
cat -n /tmp/InstalledSoftwareList > ~/Documents/ListOfInstalledSoftware

2) I am from the old school, good to add extension .txt (ListOfInstalledSoftware.txt)

Bash is my favourite. Arch Linux hardware detect and /etc/X11/XF86Config generator (hwd) in 2003, was in Bash. Modified from KNOPPIX live CD.