A selection of shell programs, either too small or too trivial to warrant their own repositories.
Includes:
todo: comment these ./cygwin/clang ./cygwin/clang++ ./cygwin/cygpackages ./cygwin/nmap ./cygwin/open ./cygwin/powershell ./cygwin/rar ./cygwin/runvbs ./cygwin/shortname ./cygwin/trash ./cygwin/unrar ./cygwin/winrar ./cygwin/_clangwrap.rb ./cygwin/_trash.ps1
./linux/clipboard: A wrapper around KDE's klipper, using qdbus. Not exactly pretty, but does its job.
./native/src/bin2c.cpp: The well-known bin2c program. Nothing more. Might be rewritten in ruby. Eventually.
7zls:
A convenience wrapper around 7z l -ba -slt, parsing its output, allowing listing to be grep'd, sorted, etc...
a2asm:
A convenience wrapper around ndisasm. disassemble anything! output is often nonsense, obviously.
a2mp4:
A convenience wrapper around ffmpeg, to quickly convert (ymmv) video files to mp4.
autogdb:
A convenience wrapper around gdb, that runs given program and its arguments, prints the backtrace, and quits.
Useful for heisenbugs.
autolldb:
Same as autogdb, except for lldb.
cget:
A convenience wrapper around curl, that makes curl behave like wget.
cgvars:
A convenience wrapper around ctags, to quickly print out global variables in a C source file.
cls:
A somewhat portable means of clearing a Terminal. unlike 'clear', it will actually also reset the Terminal.
copyperms:
Copy permissions from one path to another.
counttypes:
Count mime types of files.
cppex:
Expands preprocessor instructions in a C, or C++ source file by means of the C, or C++ compiler.
Useful for source inspection.
crc32:
Calculate and print the crc32 value of input.
curse:
Search cursewords. Wrote it ages ago while grepping Linux sources. Probably not very useful nowadays.
defines2enum:
Turns #defines into enums. For example:
defines2enum - <<'__eos'
#define foo 32
#define blah 7
# define somethingelse 43 << 32
__eos
->
foo = 32,
blah = 7,
somethingelse = 43 << 32,
... which can then be copied into an enum.
dotify:
Turns nasty, no good, very bad characters in filenames into dots. For example, blah foo [quux] (stuff).doc becomes blah.foo.quux.stuff.doc.
Useful for serving files over HTTP.
edit:
A convenience script, to call your favorite $EDITOR with files as arguments.
fcomp:
Like diff, but slightly more targeted towards humans.
ffind:
Like find, for when you got tired of typing out -iname ... -o -iname ... -o -iname ... a few hundred times.
findpseudolinks:
Given a directory, attempts to find files that were supposed to be symbolic links, but got mangled by NTFS to be regular files.
fixext:
Attempts to fix the file extension of a file by looking at its mime type.
fixsrc:
A tool that attempts to fix broken, ancient source code. May actually make things worse. Use at your own risk!
fmtls:
Reads, and attempts to parse a listing produced by ls -lR. Bug-prone.
gendomains:
Generates a list of domains given a list of tlds via -t, and a list of names. For example:
gendomains -t de,eu foo
foo.com
foo.net
foo.org
foo.de
foo.eu
gif2webm:
Convert gifs to webm. Might be buggy.
grepemails:
Searches files for email addresses. Chance of false positives.
grepstrings:
Searches files for enclosed strings (i.e., "this stuff", or 'this' ...).
Useful for inspecting source code.
ipinfo:
Dumps a bit of info about a given IP, or hostname.
ls-octal:
Print a directory listing, but with permission as octal numbers.
lsargs:
Prints given args. Useful for testing how a shell expands patterns.
lsext:
Lists a directory sorted by its extensions. A bit like ye olde DIR command from pre-NT MS-DOS.
mvmerge:
Merge two, or more directories.
mvsingle:
Move single items from a directory down one level. For example, given the path foo/bar/baz, where baz is the only item in bar,
baz is moved to foo, and bar deleted. It's very niche, but has its uses.
myip:
Print your IP address(es). Use -4 for ipv4, and -6 for ipv6. By defaults, prints both.
n2word:
Uses the linguistics gem to spell out a number. For example:
n2word 3992302
3992302: three million, nine hundred and ninety-two thousand, three hundred and two
nargs:
Like xargs, but explicitly parses line-by-line, whereas xargs parses by whitespace (which makes it unnecessarily complicated to use for files with spaces in them. Or parentheses.)
Has most of xarg's useful features, but also very basic concurrency. I use it every day, and thus it's fairly well tested.
TODO for the future: Rewrite in C (or rather, C++).
nato:
Spells out text as NATO alphabet. Example:
nato <<<hello
HOTEL ECHO LIMA LIMA OSCAR
new:
More specifically meant for cygwin, creates empty file(s), and inserts 1 (one) linefeed. This is because some programs
immediately interpret empty files to use CRLF, instead of LF.
nless:
Same as less, but if it's an URL, retrieve it first.
open:
A slightly more portable version of xdg-open, start, etc.
pargs:
Print arguments of a process by pid. Basically useless on cygwin, sadly.
pathglob:
Searches $PATH for a given pattern.
pdf2txt:
Retrieves text from a pdf.
perl2c:
Wrapper around B::, that turns a perl script in its perl C API equivalents. Similar to lua2c.
perldeparse:
Wrapper around B::, that deparses a perl script. Can make some less-than-readable scripts slightly more readable.
perlmodpath:
Print out where perl is looking for a module.
perltrace:
Trace execution of a perl script.
rand:
Generates random values. Uses ruby's securerandom.
randtext:
Generates random text.
rar2zip:
Converts a rar file to zip. Useful for converting .cbr to .cbz.
rglob:
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rowgen:
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sdu:
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show:
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skip:
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sortwords:
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spawn:
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sprint:
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spsuggest:
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tochars:
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ugrep:
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unbreak:
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unistr:
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unpackall:
text for unpackall goes here
unzlib:
text for unzlib goes here
urldecode:
text for urldecode goes here
urldump:
text for urldump goes here
urlencode:
text for urlencode goes here
urlgrep:
text for urlgrep goes here
urlidn:
text for urlidn goes here
whoisdom:
text for whoisdom goes here
winegrepstrings:
text for winegrepstrings goes here
wrun:
text for wrun goes here
xmap:
text for xmap goes here
xmlmerge:
text for xmlmerge goes here
xorcrypt:
text for xorcrypt goes here