Assorted Shell Tools is a collection of scripts and compiled programs that are useful for shell scripting. This package also contains a common include file of various useful functions and variables.
Note that many of these tools are shell scripts that were not written with portability in mind.
This package also contains some miscellaneous items, including assorted.bash for managing websites. However, these will eventually be moved into other projects. These are intentionally not covered in the documentation.
Tool-specific dependencies:
To install, run setup.bash, which is a SimpleSetup installer. By default, it installs to /opt/shell-tools, and thus this step may require root privileges. For options, including the ability to specify an alternate prefix path, run setup.bash -h.
| Name | Description | Requirements |
|---|---|---|
ascii-colors | Demo terminal color escape sequences. | bash |
bullets | Converts Markdown-style bulleted lists to MediaWiki-style bulleted lists. | Some Haskell implementation |
cleanup | Remove intermediate build files and other gunk from a directory tree. | Some Haskell implementation, HSH |
daemon-ctl | start-stop-daemon but with extra features. | bash, procps |
filter-urls | Given a list of URLs, filter out live URLs or vice-versa. | Python |
gen-dates | Generate lists of dates. | Python |
gen-list | Generate lists based on a template string. | bash |
grep-code | Greps a set of directories. | bash, Python |
manage-mounts | Manage a set of mounts. | bash |
map-syms | Search and replace for a symbol in a set of files. | bash, Python |
memmon | Monitor system resource usage. | bash, procps |
normalize | Given a list of numbers, return the numbers normalized to their sum. | Some Haskell implementation |
randlines | Select random lines from a file. | Python, Python Commons |
rmhead | Remove the first n lines of a file. | bash |
rmtail | Remove the last n lines of a file. (Same as head -n -$n$. | bash |
show-env | Show the value of an environment variable. Useful for debugging programs that export environment variables to subprocesses. | bash |
trash | Move files to a trash directory and group the trashed files by their removal time. | bash |
unison-merge | A frontend over unison to make conflict resolutions sane. | bash |
qwerty | xmodmap a qwerty keyboard layout. | bash |
dvorak | xmodmap a Dvorak keyboard layout. | bash |
refresh-links | Kept solely as a reference, since it uses a bunch of interesting pipe redirection. | bash |
bootstrap- cabal | Fetch, build, and install cabal. | bash |
For help on any particular tool, please see the tool’s man page.
Here are a few of the major components in shell-tools.
Library of various general-purpose utilities that can come in handy for shell scripting.
Framework for writing minimal installers that support installation by symlinks, which is particularly handy for development of scripts (scripts because it’s not yet integrated with any build system).
This is a script for helping me publish, in the hopes of getting more into the whole “release early and often” mantra. It takes care of the generation of the project website and publishing this to assorted.sf.net, and it also packages up and releases the software package.
In both website generation and packaging, the process involves generation of a final README from the source README. For releasing a package, the place to upload the files is determined by the package type (most things default to Google Code, but Python packages are pushed to PyPI, for instance).
Assorted Shell Tools is released under the GNU GPL3.
Copyright 2008 Yang Zhang.
All rights reserved.
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