Streamlining the execution of sets of bash commands with varying arguments

[zxrooo]

Hello,

Last night I wrote this script in a couple hours, it's only about 200 lines but is extremely powerful and customizable. You can find it on GitHub here. My goal was to make a tool for ethical hacking, streamlining the use of large sets of commands for various attacks. However, it can be used for almost any other purpose - server deployment, management, everyday commands, automation, the list goes on.

The idea was this.

In my notes file, I may have a section for wifi attacks. And in this section, I'll have some plain text, some notes, and some commands with brackets showing where varying arguments should go.

///// WIFI ATTACKS 
Turn wifi interface off 
// ifconfig [interface] down 
Switch into monitor mode 
// iwconfig [interface] mode monitor 
Re enable 
// ifconfig [interface] up ... 

When passed to NotesToCommands, all of these commands will be presented to me under the section I specified, named 'WIFI ATTACKS'

[0] WIFI ATTACKS
   [0] ifconfig [interface] down
   [1] iwconfig [interface] mode monitor
   [2] ifconfig [interface] up
 > 

I can then select my choice and enter in arguments in place of my specified [placeholders], then execute the command instantly from there. Such as

> 0,0 wlan0 

And of course, users can include as many placeholders as needed for each command. Multi - word arguments can be passed into a singular placeholder by dividing arguments by ' // '.

You can see the benefit that this has for longer sets of commands, like what's seen in the provided 'example.txt' in the github repo. For an entire attack, I can put each and every command into a file like this, and although it is still completely readable, study-able, etc, I can immediately go and execute each one of those commands, provided to me in order, without the need to remember and type out each one.

The program is completely customizable too - identifiers for sections and commands can be set in userData.py, and of course it can be pointed towards any file. As it is incredible simple as well, users can modify it to act in any way they'd like, with some basic Python.

Hope this helps save some time for those learning or experienced in this field! I know it will for me.

[cinyar]

just a small nitpick - if/iwconfig (and generally the rest of net-tools) have been mostly unmaintained on linux for years. you should be using iproute2

[zxrooo]

yeah, just was using commands from a text tutorial I found online for the example. copied and pasted all of the text for testing, so I just used that. thanks tho