Some Useful Scripts

Created: November 03, 2024 Last Modified: August 15, 2025 Category: windows, linux Print this page Back to Home

Summary

This post lists some useful scripts I’ve created (with assistance from GitHub Copilot) for various tasks. All scripts are provided as-is with no warranty of compatibility with your operating system. Feel free to download, modify, and adapt them to your needs. Questions or suggestions are always welcome.

Download a shared folder from Google Drive with rclone
Create a file .timestamps to back up/restore the updated time of all files/folders in a folder
Quickly handling TeX files
Crawling Articles Information with Specific Keywords
A Workflow with GitHub and Overleaf
Add a folder to Windows Explorer Navigation Pane
Remove workflow runs in a GitHub repository
Clone all branches of a GitHub repository
Re-run a workflow in a GitHub repository
Remove releases and tags in a GitHub repository
Download releases from a GitHub repository
Add/remove certain copyright and metadata information to PDF files
Sign files with GPG
Get Scientific Papers

Download a shared folder from Google Drive with `rclone`

You will need to config rclone first.
Download gdrive-shared-folder.bat (for Windows) or gdrive-shared-folder.sh (for Linux).

Create a file `.timestamps` to back up/restore the updated time of all files/folders in a folder

This is a bash script used in Linux.
Download timestamp.sh.

Quickly handling TeX files

Download make.bat (for Windows) or Makefile (for Linux).

Crawling Articles Information with Specific Keywords

This is a Python script.
Download crawl_articles.tar.gz, extract it, go to the crawl_articles folder, and run pip install -r requirements.txt to install some required libraries, then go back and run python crawl.py --help to see how to use it.

A Workflow with GitHub and Overleaf

See A Workflow with GitHub and Overleaf

See this page or this page for more details.
Download navigation_pane.bat.

Remove workflow runs in a GitHub repository

See this page for more details. This script requires GitHub CLI.
Download gh-remove-workflow-run.bat (for Windows) or gh-remove-workflow-run.sh (for Linux).

Clone all branches of a GitHub repository

Download gh-clone-all-branches.bat (for Windows) or gh-clone-all-branches.sh (for Linux).

Re-run a workflow in a GitHub repository

Download gh-rerun-workflow.bat (for Windows) or gh-rerun-workflow.sh (for Linux). This script requires GitHub CLI.

Remove releases and tags in a GitHub repository

Download gh-remove-release.bat (for Windows) or gh-remove-release.sh (for Linux). This script requires GitHub CLI.

Download releases from a GitHub repository

Download gh-download-release.bat (for Windows) or gh-download-release.sh (for Linux). This script requires GitHub CLI.

Add/remove certain copyright and metadata information to PDF files

Download add_copyright.py. This Python script requires PyPDF2, reportlab, and tqdm libraries.
Download add_metadata.py. This Python script requires PyPDF2, pikepdf, bibtexparser, and rispy libraries.
Download remove_metadata.py. This Python script requires pymupdf library.

Sign files with GPG

Download gpg_sign_pdf.py.

Get Scientific Papers

See https://github.com/hoanganhduc/getscipapers.