Some Useful Scripts

Created: November 03, 2024 Last Modified: January 23, 2025 Category: windows, linux Print this page Back to Home

Summary

This post contains some useful scripts that I have written with the help of GitHub Copilot. You can download and modify them as you see fit.

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

Download a shared folder from Google Drive with `rclone`

You will need to config rclone first.
Download run.bat (for Windows) or run.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.