# GrinHelper Suite - Bash Script Repository

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**Created:** [February 10, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/grinhelper-suite-bash-script-repository/177 "2018-02-10T23:10:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 10, 2018, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.grin.mw/t/grinhelper-suite-bash-script-repository/177/1 "2018-02-10T23:10:47Z")

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# [GrinHelper Suite - Bash Script Repository](https://github.com/dewdeded/GrinHelper)

A Bash script repository to manage your local and remote Grin nodes, wallets, logs, …

## Installation instructions

1. Get yourself a clean Ubuntu or Debian (tested working on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS minimal)
2. Run this command in a terminal

```bash
wget --no-check-certificate --quiet 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dewdeded/GrinHelper/master/Install.sh' > /dev/null 2> /dev/null && bash Install.sh

```

## [GrinHelper.sh](https://github.com/dewdeded/GrinHelper/blob/master/GrinHelper.sh)

This bash script manages your local Grin node.

### Features

This is what this script will do for you.

#### Automatic setup

- Install Grin depencies: Clang-3.8, Rust 1.21, rustup
- Install it’s own depencies: figlet, screen, jq
- Install Grin
- Autofix logfile size

#### Launcher and corresponding logviewer

- Start detached Grin Wallet (Testnet1)
- Start detached Grin Mining Node (Testnet1)
- Start detached Grin Mining Node (Testnet2)
- Start detached Grin Non-mining Node (Testnet1)

#### Logviewer

- Check logfiles of Grin Wallet
- Check logfiles of Grin Node

#### Show funds, transfers and stats

- Show balance of local Grin wallet
- Show outputs of local Grin wallet
- Show sync & mining statsof local Grin Node

#### Monitoring, operations and update

- Check which Grin processes are running
- Check Grin Connectivity - Check if Grins ports are publicly reachable.
- Stop Grin processes (Killall Grin processes, Kill Grin Wallet, Kill Grin Node)
- Update GrindHelper
- Update Grin (to latest version in master-branch.)

#### Extras

- Small fixes for current master (e.g. missing/wrong entries grin.toml)
- more to come

## [GrinHelper-Remote.sh](https://github.com/dewdeded/GrinHelper/blob/master/GrinHelper-Remote.sh)

This script manages, monitors and aggregate status info from remote Grin nodes.

### Functions

- Check Sync & Mining Stats (at all remote nodes)
- Check Outputs (at all remote nodes)
- Check Balance (at all remote nodes)
- Check Connectivity (off all remote nodes)
- Update GrinHelper (on all remote nodes)

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