Adjust launch-reaper scripts a bit, also add two general scripts

src_files/.local/bin/launch-reaper

@@ -2,16 +2,18 @@
 
 # trying the "portable install" option; using this launch script to point to that
 source "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/zsh/.zshenv"
-reaper_portable_exec_linux="$DIR_REAPER_PORTABLE_LINUX/REAPER/reaper"
-reaper_portable_ini_file_linux="$DIR_REAPER_PORTABLE_LINUX/reaper-config/reaper.ini"
 
+reaper_portable_exec_linux="$DIR_REAPER_PORTABLE_LINUX/REAPER/reaper"
 [[ ! -x "$reaper_portable_exec_linux" ]] && {
     echo "reaper missing or not executable: $reaper_portable_exec_linux" >&2
     exit 1
 }
+
+reaper_portable_config_linux="$DIR_REAPER_PORTABLE_LINUX/config"
+reaper_portable_ini_file_linux="$reaper_portable_config_linux/reaper.ini"
 [[ ! -r "$reaper_portable_ini_file_linux" ]] && {
-    echo "reaper.ini missing or not readable: $reaper_portable_ini_file_linux" >&2
-    exit 1
+    [[ ! -d "$reaper_portable_config_linux" ]] && mkdir -p "$reaper_portable_config_linux"
+    touch "$reaper_portable_ini_file_linux"
 }
 
 nohup \

src_files/.local/scripts/convert

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+#! /bin/zsh
+
+# simple unit-conversion util, partly made for fun, not much here so far
+
+conversionUnits=$1
+inputsToConvert=($argv[2,-1])
+
+function cmToIn() {
+	result=$(( 1 / 2.54 * $1 ))
+	printf '%.1f cm => %.2f in\n' $1 $result
+}
+
+function inToCm() {
+	result=$(( 2.54 * $1 ))
+	printf '%.2f in => %.1f cm\n' $1 $result
+}
+
+function unsupportedUnits() {
+	echo "unsupported conversion units given: $conversionUnits"
+	exit 1
+}
+
+funcRef=exit # not sure what a good default function is, using exit
+case $conversionUnits in
+	(cm|cm-in) funcRef=cmToIn
+		;;
+	(in|in-cm) funcRef=inToCm
+		;;
+	(*) funcRef=unsupportedUnits
+		;;
+esac
+
+for i in $inputsToConvert; do $funcRef $i; done

src_files/.local/scripts/gfind

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+#! /bin/zsh
+
+# simple wrapper to run both find and grep
+# usage: gfind <search-term> [search-directory]
+# if no search-directory given, uses . by default
+
+searchTerm=$1
+searchDirectory=$(if [[ -n $2 ]] then echo $2; else echo "."; fi)
+
+printf '//// find results for: %s in directory: %s\n' $searchTerm $searchDirectory
+find $searchDirectory -iname "*$searchTerm*"
+
+printf '\n//// grep results for: %s in directory: %s\n' $searchTerm $searchDirectory
+grep -rIi $searchTerm $searchDirectory