added few scripts

.config/Scripts/arch-updates.sh

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+path=${HOME}/.config/Scripts/
+#trap 'exit' SIGINT
+
+function main_loop {
+        while true; do
+        echo '' > ~/.config/Scripts/status
+        check_for_updates
+        sleep 600
+        done
+}
+
+function status {
+        echo $$ > ${path}polybar_updates.pid
+        while true; do
+        cat ~/.config/Scripts/status
+        sleep 1
+        done
+}
+
+function check_for_updates {
+   checkupdates | nl -w2 -s '. ' >| ${path}repo.pkgs
+   yay -Qu --aur | nl -w2 -s '. '  >| ${path}aur.pkgs
+   updates=$(cat ${path}*.pkgs | wc -l)
+
+   echo "0" >| ${path}status
+   [ $updates -gt 0 ] && echo "%{F#e60053}$updates" >| ${path}status
+
+   >| ${path}packages
+   [ -s ${path}repo.pkgs ] && cat ${path}repo.pkgs >> ${path}packages
+   [ -s ${path}repo.pkgs ] && [ -s ${path}aur.pkgs ] && printf "\n" >> ${path}packages
+   [ -s ${path}aur.pkgs ] && sed '1iAUR Updates' ${path}aur.pkgs >> ${path}packages
+}
+
+function notify {
+if [[ $(cat ~/.config/Scripts/status) -eq 0 ]]
+then
+        notify-send 0
+else
+        notify-send "$(cat ~/.config/Scripts/packages)"
+fi   
+}
+
+function upgrade {
+urxvt -e yay --noconfirm -Syu
+echo "0" > ~/.config/polybar/scripts/arch/status
+}
+
+
+[[ $# -eq 0 ]] && main_loop
+[[ $1 == "-s" ]] && status
+[[ $1 == "-c" ]] && echo '' > ~/.config/Scripts/status && check_for_updates
+[[ $1 == "-n" ]] && notify

.config/Scripts/archnews

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+# This is a simple script that refines the output of checkupdates and
+# grabs the latest news from the Arch RSS news feed. The idea is to
+# have some extra info before committing to grabbing a fresh copy
+# of the package database via pacman -Sy.
+#
+# Prerequisites: bc, xmllint
+
+printf "Fetching data, please wait...\n\n"
+
+CULIST=$(checkupdates)
+if [[ $CULIST = "" ]]; then
+    echo "No new packages"
+    exit
+fi
+
+# calculate the number of packages
+IFS=$'\n'
+for i in $CULIST
+do
+    pacnum=$((pacnum+1))
+done
+echo "$pacnum new packages found"
+
+# extract package names and then feed them to pacman -Si
+PNAMES=""
+for i in $CULIST
+do
+    PNAMES+=$(printf "%s" "$i" | awk '{print $1}')" "
+done
+IFS=''
+PSI="pacman -Si $PNAMES"
+PSI="$(eval "$PSI")"
+
+# extract the relevant info from pacman -Si
+PSI=$(echo "$PSI" | grep -E 'Repository|Download Size')
+PSI=$(echo "$PSI" | \
+      awk -F ": " '{if (NR%2 == 0) printf "%s\n", $2; else printf "%s ", $2}')
+
+# combine pacman -Si info with the output of checkupdates
+OUT=$(paste <(echo "$PSI") <(echo "$CULIST") | column -t | tr -s " ")
+
+# calculate total download size and refine the output further
+IFS=$'\n'
+totsize_mb="0"
+for i in $OUT
+do
+    cursize_bib=$(echo "$i" | cut -d ' ' -f 2,3)
+
+    # generate appropriate conversion multipliers
+    if [ "$(echo "$cursize_bib" | awk '{print $2}')" = "KiB" ]; then
+        mul=0.001024
+    else # assumes MiB
+        mul=1.048576
+    fi
+
+    cursize_mb=$(echo "scale=1;($(echo "$cursize_bib" | \
+                 awk '{print $1}')*$mul)" | bc)
+    totsize_mb=$(echo "scale=1;$totsize_mb+$cursize_mb" | bc)
+done
+
+# final output for the checkupdate stage
+IFS=''
+printf "\n%s\n" "$(echo -e "$OUT" | cut -d ' ' --complement -f 2,3 | \
+        sort -d | column -t )"
+printf "\nTotal download size: %.2f MB or %.2f MiB\n" \
+       "$totsize_mb" "$(echo "$totsize_mb"*0.953674 | bc)"
+
+###############################################################################
+
+# arch news
+printf "\n==============================\n"
+printf "https://www.archlinux.org/news\n"
+printf "==============================\n"
+
+# nicked from some forum, not an ideal solution, but seems to work,
+# formatting has been a little bit improved here
+curl -s https://www.archlinux.org/feeds/news/ | \
+xmllint --xpath //item/title\ \|\ //item/pubDate /dev/stdin | \
+sed -r -e "s:<title>([^<]*?)</title><pubDate>([^<]*?)</pubDate>:\2 -- \1\n:g" | \
+sed -r "s:&gt;:>:" | \
+sed -r "s:&lt;:<:" | \
+tr -s " " | \
+cut -d " " --complement -f 1,5,6 | \
+head -n5 # 5 of the most recent news items seems reasonable?
+
+# syu prompt
+printf "\nLaunch sudo pacman -Syu? (y/N) "
+read -r CONT
+if [ "$CONT" = "y" ] || [ "$CONT" = "Y" ]; then
+    printf "\n"
+    sudo pacman -Syu
+else
+    printf "\nUpdate cancelled.\n"
+fi

.config/Scripts/colortest

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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+#   Daniel Crisman's ANSI color chart script from
+#   The Bash Prompt HOWTO: 6.1. Colours
+#   http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prompt-HOWTO/x329.html
+#  
+#   This function echoes a bunch of color codes to the 
+#   terminal to demonstrate what's available.  Each 
+#   line is the color code of one forground color,
+#   out of 17 (default + 16 escapes), followed by a 
+#   test use of that color on all nine background 
+#   colors (default + 8 escapes).
+ 
+    T='•••'   # The text for the color test
+    
+    echo -e "\n         def     40m     41m     42m     43m     44m     45m     46m     47m";
+    
+    for FGs in '    m' '   1m' '  30m' '1;30m' '  31m' '1;31m' '  32m' \
+               '1;32m' '  33m' '1;33m' '  34m' '1;34m' '  35m' '1;35m' \
+               '  36m' '1;36m' '  37m' '1;37m';
+    
+      do FG=${FGs// /}
+      echo -en " $FGs \033[$FG  $T  "
+      
+      for BG in 40m 41m 42m 43m 44m 45m 46m 47m;
+        do echo -en "$EINS \033[$FG\033[$BG  $T  \033[0m";
+      done
+      echo;
+    done
+    echo