ncaldwell

Reporting server up from hosts with sh

Writing a script for cron

Want to check if a bunch of servers on your network are up every few minutes? Want to use things that you already have? Do it with a shell script and cron!

ncaldwell

#!/bin/sh
#
# Select videos to watch with mpv from the current directory using sxiv.
#
# Caches screenshots for all the videos in the current directory, and then calls
# sxiv on the cache.
#
# requires: ffmpeg
#           sxiv
#           mpv