1 This is a collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write
2 thirty years ago. Currently it consists of these tools:
5 check if a file or standard input is utf-8
7 soak up standard input and write to a file
9 timestamp standard input
11 edit a directory in your text editor
13 edit a pipe using your text editor
15 print lines that are present in one file and another
17 print lines that are present in one file but not another
20 Your suggestions of additional tools to add to this collection are
21 apprecitated. Here are some that are under consideration but have not yet
22 been included, I also welcome feedback on which of these to include.
25 determines the mime type of a file using the gnome mine database
27 (More useful than file(1) in many cases but would add a lot of
28 gnome libraries to the package's dependency chain.)
31 find ip address etc easily without complex grepping in ifconfig
32 http://edgard.dyn.fdn.fr/developpements/ifcfg.shtml
33 (Tarball link 404 when last checked.)
36 makes another program understand compressed files
37 ex: z zxgv file.bmp.gz
39 (Waiting for copyright from Chung-chieh Shan)
40 (Dare I take the "z" name?)
43 puts stdin into a temp file and passes it to the specified program
44 ex: zcat file.bmp.gz | tmp zxgv
46 (Waiting for copyright from Chung-chieh Shan)
48 adds up numbers from stdin
50 (Waiting for copyright from Chung-chieh Shan)
52 -- Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>