A New Desktop Design

#!/bin/sh
 
# displays the current wheather condition and saves an appropriate image
# as well as the forecast for tomorrow and the day after
 
TMP_DIR=/tmp/;	  # the tmp working-directory
 
TMP_FILE=weather.xml;	  # the name of the .tmp file
 
file=$TMP_DIR/$TMP_FILE;  # the tmp file
 
REGION_URI=germany/berlin/berlin-20065565/;  # the url for berlin, germany
 
CITY_CODE=GMXX0007;     # the region code for berlin, germany
 
#
# get the image for the current conditions
#
curl -s -o $TMP_DIR/weather.html 'http://weather.yahoo.com/'$REGION_URI;
 
curl -s -o $TMP_DIR/weather.png | \
  `grep "div\ class=\"forecast-icon\"\ style=\"background:url" | \
   $TMP_DIR/weather.html | \
   awk -F"'" '{ printf $2 }'`
 
#
# get the forecast
#
curl -s -o $file 'http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/forecastrss?p='$CITY_CODE'&u=c'
 
#
# tomorrow
#
more $file | grep -E -m 1 '(High:)'| \
  sed -e 's/<br \/>//' \
      -e 's/<b>//' -e 's/< \/b>//' \
      -e 's/<br \/>//' -e 's/<br \/>//' \
      -e 's/High://g' -e 's/Low:/-/g'
 
#
# the day after tomorrow
#
more $file | grep -E -m 2 '(High:)' | \
  sed -e 's/<br \/>//' \
      -e 's/</b><b>//' -e 's/< \/b>//' \
      -e 's/<br \/>//' \
      -e 's/High://g' -e 's/Low:/-/g' | \
  tail -r -n 1

#!/bin/sh
 
# displays the cpu usage for user/system/idle
 
TMP_DIR=/tmp
 
ps -arcwwxo "command %cpu ruser" | \
  head -11 | \
  sed '/top/d' > $TMP_DIR/cpu.temp
 
cat $TMP_DIR/cpu.temp | \
  head -11 | \
  sed -e "s/COMMAND/Processes/g" -e 's/ \%CPU RUSER//'

#!/bin/sh
 
# displays the current I/O of a specified network adapter
# created by chris helming.
# chris dot helming at gmail
 
# get the current number of bytes in and bytes out
myvar1=`netstat -ib | grep -e "en0" -m 1 | awk '{print $7}'` #  bytes in
myvar3=`netstat -ib | grep -e "en0" -m 1 | awk '{print $10}'` # bytes out
 
# wait one second
sleep 1
 
# get the number of bytes in and out one second later
myvar2=`netstat -ib | grep -e "en0" -m 1 | awk '{print $7}'` # bytes in again
myvar4=`netstat -ib | grep -e "en0" -m 1 | awk '{print $10}'` # bytes out again
 
# find the difference between bytes in and out during that one second
subin=$(($myvar2 - $myvar1))
subout=$(($myvar4 - $myvar3))
 
# convert bytes to kilobytes
kbin=`echo "scale=2; $subin/1024;" | bc`
kbout=`echo "scale=2; $subout/1024;" | bc`
 
# print the results
echo "Network I/O"
echo "D: $kbin Kb/sec"
echo "U: $kbout Kb/sec"

#!/bin/sh
 
# displays the current RAM usage
 
top -FR -l 1 | awk '/PhysMem/ {print "Used: " $8 " Free: " $10}'

#!/bin/sh
 
# displays the space of specified hdd's (internal, external Time-Machine Backup)
 
df -h | grep disk0s2 | awk '{print "HDD #1: " $4 " (" $5 " used)"}'  # internal
df -h | grep "Time"  | awk '{print "HDD #2: " $4 " (" $5 " used)"}'  # external

#!/bin/sh
 
# displays the 10 most cpu greedy processes
 
TMP_DIR=/tmp
 
ps -arcwwxo "command %cpu ruser" | head -11 | sed '/top/d' > $TMP_DIR/cpu.temp 
more $GT_DIR/cpu.temp | \
  head -11 | \
  sed -e "s/COMMAND/Processes/g" \
      -e 's/ \%CPU RUSER//'

#!/bin/sh
 
# displays the 10 most memory greedy processes
 
top -orsize -FR -l1 | \
  grep % | \
  grep -v Load | \
  grep -v COMMAND | \
  cut -c 7-19,64-69 | \
  head -10

#!/bin/sh
 
# displays the calendar of the current month
 
cal

#!/bin/sh
 
# Thanks to Dave Taylor at www.askdavetaylor.com for
# the great tutorial on accessing and parsing RSS feeds with a shell script
 
# displays the unread emails from #inbox
 
username='' # username is your email address with @ replaced by %40.
password='' # your password
 
url="https://$username:$password@mail.google.com/mail/feed/atom/inbox"
 
if [ $# -eq 1 ] ; then
  headarg=$(( $1 * 2 ))
else
  headarg="-8"  # default is four email messages
fi
 
curl -s $url | grep -E '(title>|summary>)' | \
  sed -n '2,$p' | \
  sed -e 's/<title>//'  -e 's/< \/title>//' \
      -e 's/<summary>/   /' -e 's/< \/summary>//' | \
  head $headarg | \
  fmt -w $width