Devtools

Devtools (dtools) is a comprehensive CLI utility that consolidates reusable development scripts, tools, and references into a single, easy-to-use interface. Built with the Bashly framework, it serves multiple purposes:

• Script Repository: A centralized collection of battle-tested bash scripts for common development tasks
• Functional Documentation: Reference implementations showing how to interact with various tools and services
• Quick Reference: Documentation commands (like tui and pentest subcommands) that list useful tools and commands you might not use daily

Whether you need to spin up a local database, manage AWS resources, analyze code, or just remember that one command you always forget, dtools has you covered.

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Warnings

• I've only tested these scripts against Debian-based systems (Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, etc.). Some scripts may not work on other systems.
• Some scripts assume that bash is your default shell, and thus assume that your shell configuration files are .bashrc. If you use another shell, you may need to modify some scripts to fit your environment.

For any and all issues, don't hesitate to create a bug report or feature request on the GitHub Issues page!

Installation

To install the dtools script, run the following command:

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Dark-Alex-17/dtools/refs/heads/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

This will install dtools to ~/.local/bin/dtools, and install the tab completions to your ~./bashrc. So be sure to source ~/.bashrc to enable the completions.

Just run dtools --help to get started!

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Features

🤖 AI & Local LLMs

• Chat with local models via llama.cpp
• Start and manage llama.cpp servers
• Quick access to Llama API documentation and UI

☁️ Cloud & Infrastructure

AWS:

• SSO login with automatic credential management
• Open AWS console directly to any service
• Interactive AWS CLI shell
• EC2: List/describe instances, SSH tunneling, start/stop instances
• RDS: Connect to databases, port forwarding
• CloudWatch Logs: Tail log groups, query logs
• Secrets Manager: Retrieve and manage secrets
• SSM: Session manager, parameter store access, bastion instance management

GCP:

• Artifact Registry: Docker login, list repositories
• Vertex AI: Model management and deployment

🗄️ Databases

• Spin up PostgreSQL in Docker with optional persistence
• Interactive database TUI (Harlequin)
• Dump databases to SQL or DBML format
• Database schema visualization

📊 Data Visualization & Utilities

• Plot data from stdin or files (line/bar charts)
• Real-time plotting for live data streams
• Date/epoch conversion utilities
• Random number generation (int/float)
• ISO 8601 date formatting

🔧 Development Tools

Java:

• Switch between Java versions (8, 11, 17, 21)
• SonarQube static analysis integration

Git:

• Search entire git history for strings

Elastic Stack:

• Initialize and manage local Elasticsearch + Kibana + Logstash

Docker:

• Clean images, containers, and volumes

📝 Document Processing

• Convert between formats using pandoc (Markdown, HTML, PDF, DOCX, etc.)
• View markdown files with live preview

🌐 Network Tools

• Generate self-signed HTTPS certificates
• Start simple HTTP servers with netcat
• Network scanning and monitoring (documentation)

🔒 Security & Ansible

Ansible:

• Encrypt/decrypt strings and variables with Ansible Vault

Pentesting (Documentation):

• Reference commands for reconnaissance and testing tools
• Network analysis examples
• Security testing workflows

💻 Virtual Machines

• Spin up Windows VMs with FreeRDP
• Configurable disk size, RAM, and CPU cores
• Share directories between host and VM
• Persistent VM storage

🎬 Video & Media

• Rip audio from video files with metadata support

🧹 System Maintenance

• Clean system with BleachBit
• Clean Docker resources
• Clear package manager caches
• Purge old logs and journal entries
• Recursively clean build caches (npm, gradle, maven, etc.)

🔔 Notifications

• Subscribe to ntfy topics with optional sound alerts
• Quick reference for ntfy message publishing

📦 Installation Helpers

• Install Docker on Debian systems
• Install Ansible
• Install Java LTS versions (8, 11, 17, 21)

🛠️ Miscellaneous

• Interactive file selection with fzf integration
• Backup files and directories
• Generate secure passwords
• Record terminal sessions as GIFs
• Play mp3 sounds from CLI
• View markdown with GitHub-style rendering

📚 TUI Reference Library

Documentation commands that reference useful TUIs for:

• System monitoring (htop, btop, etc.)
• Network monitoring
• Docker management
• Development workflows
• Data exploration
• AI tools

Building

To build the dtools script after making some changes, run the build target in the Makefile:

make build

Running the CLI

Assuming you've already run make install, the script should now be available on your PATH, so running it is as simple as: dtools --help