2012.06.25
- Joye’s “moreutils” collection – http://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/. Contains following:
- chronic: runs a command quietly unless it fails
- combine: combine the lines in two files using boolean operations
- ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output
- ifne: run a program if the standard input is not empty
- isutf8: check if a file or standard input is utf-8
- lckdo: execute a program with a lock held
- mispipe: pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first
- parallel: run multiple jobs at once
- pee: tee standard input to pipes
- sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
- ts: timestamp standard input
- vidir: edit a directory in your text editor
- vipe: insert a text editor into a pipe
- zrun: automatically uncompress arguments to command
- num-utils – http://suso.suso.org/programs/num-utils/. Contains:
- average: A program for calculating the average of numbers.
- bound: Finds the boundary numbers (min and max) of input.
- interval: Shows the numeric intervals between each number in a sequence.
- normalize: Normalizes a set of numbers between 0 and 1 by default.
- numgrep: Like normal grep, but for sets of numbers.
- numprocess: Do mathmatical operations on numbers.
- numsum: Add up all the numbers.
- random: Generate a random number from a given expression.
- range: Generate a set of numbers in a range expression.
- round: Round each number according to it’s value.
- Scylla and Charybdis, Tools – http://www.scylla-charybdis.com/tool.php. Contains:
- checkrun: Program watchdog to terminate a program with starving output)
- cmpfast: Fast compare two files binary)
- count: Copy lines, shows progress)
- dbm: A little tool to access gdbm files from shell.)
- dirlist: Primitive directory lister, quicker than ls, find and echo *)
- diskus: Disk geometry checking and repair tool)
- getrealpath: Print realpath to stdout)
- histogram: Count bytes in file)
- kdmktone: Make the console beep)
- keypressed: Nonblocking, nondestructible test for waiting data on TTYs, sockets and probably pipes)
- killmem: Protect some memory against paging until you need free memory)
- lockdir: Create a directory for locking purpose)
- lockrun: Exclusively run something by placing a file lock)
- md5chk: Create md5sums for easy shell usage)
- minicron: This is a program which starts other programs after some time)
- mvatom: Move files by atomic rename instead of copy.)
- printansi: Like /bin/echo but ANSI-escapes the output)
- printargs: Like “hello world” but dumps the argc array)
- ptybuffer: daemonize interactive tty line driven programs with output history)
- runningfor: Return true until the given time periode is reached.)
- slowdown: Slowdown processes or pipes.)
- socklinger: Execute quick hack shell scripts connected to a socket.)
- sq: SQLITE3 query tool for shell usage)
- timeout: Execute a command or pipe only for a given duration.)
- timestart: Start a program N-M times in parallel by running it it each A-B seconds)
- tinohtmlparse: Simple HTML parser to extract information from HTML files by shell)
- tinoseq: An integer seq implementation)
- udevraw: Dump udev events for bash usage)
- unbuffered: Copy stdin to stdout and stderr, unbuffered)
- watcher: A Python2.6 script to watch files, pipes or Unix domain sockets)
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