shtool tarball – GNU shtool command for rolling standardized tarballs Synopsisshtool tarball [-t|–trace] [-v|–verbose] [-o|–output tarball] [-c|–compress prog] [-d|–directory directory] [-u|–user user] [-g|–group group] [-e|–exclude pattern] path [path …] DescriptionThis command is for rolling input files under path into a distribution tarballs which can be extracted by tar(1). The four important aspects of good open…
shtool table – GNU shtool pretty-print a field-separated list Synopsisshtool table [-F|–field-sep sep] [-w|–width width] [-c|–columns cols] [-s|–strip strip] strsepstr… DescriptionThis pretty-prints a list of strings as a table. OptionsThe following command line options are available. -F, –field-sep sep Separate columns using sep. Default is ":". -w, –width width Width of each column. Default is…
shtool subst – GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations Synopsisshtool subst [-v|–verbose] [-t|–trace] [-n|–nop] [-w|–warning] [-q|–quiet] [-s|–stealth] [-i|–interactive] [-b|–backup ext] [-e|–exec cmd] [-f|–file cmd-file] [file] [file …] DescriptionThis command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files. OptionsThe following command line options are available. -v, –verbose Display some processing information….
shtool slo – GNU shtool separate linker options by library class Synopsisshtool slo [-p|–prefix str] — -Ldir -llib [-Ldir -llib …] DescriptionThis command separates the linker options “-L” and “-l” by library class. It’s argument line can actually be an arbitrary command line where those options are contained. slo parses these two options only and…
shtool scpp – GNU shtool C source file pre-processor Synopsisshtool scpp [-v|–verbose] [-p|–preserve] [-f|–filter filter] [-o|–output ofile] [-t|–template tfile] [-M|–mark mark] [-D|–define dname] [-C|–class cname] file [file …] DescriptionThis command is an additional ANSI C source file pre-processor for sharing cpp(1) code segments, internal variables and internal functions. The intention for this comes from writing…
shtool rotate – GNU shtool log file rotation Synopsisshtool rotate [-v|–verbose] [-t|–trace] [-f|–force] [-n|–num-files count] [-s|–size size] [-c|–copy] [-r|–remove] [-a|–archive-dir dir] [-z|–compress [tool:]level] [-b|–background] [-d|–delay] [-p|–pad len] [-m|–mode mode] [-o|–owner owner] [-g|–group group] [-M|–migrate cmd] [-P|–prolog cmd] [-E|–epilog cmd] file [file …] DescriptionThis command rotates a logfile file by subsequently creating up to count (optionally…
shtool prop – GNU shtool propeller processing indication Synopsisshtool prop [-p|–prefix str] DescriptionThis command displays a processing indication though a running propeller. It is intended to be run at the end of a pipe (""|"") sequence where on "stdin" logging/processing informations found. For every line on "stdin" the propeller advances one step clock-wise. OptionsThe following…
shtool platform – GNU shtool Unix platform identification Synopsisshtool platform [-F|–format format] [-S|–sep string] [-C|–conc string] [-L|–lower] [-U|–upper] [-v|–verbose] [-c|–concise] [-n|–newline] [-d|–debug] [-t|–type type] [-n|–newline] [-d|–debug] Descriptionshtool platform is a flexible Unix platform identification program. It distinguishes a platform according to its hardware architecture and operating system. For both there is a class, product and…
shtool path – GNU shtool command dealing with shell path variables Synopsisshtool path [-s|–suppress] [-r|–reverse] [-d|–dirname] [-b|–basename] [-m|–magic] [-p|–path path] str [str …] DescriptionThis command deals with shell $PATH variables. It can find a program through one or more filenames given by one or more str arguments. It prints the absolute filesystem path to the…
shtool move – GNU shtool enhanced mv(1) replacement Synopsisshtool move [-v|–verbose] [-t|–trace] [-e|–expand] [-p|–preserve] src-file dst-file DescriptionThis is a mv(1) style command enhanced with the ability to rename multiple files in a single operation and the ability to detect and not touch existing equal destinations files, thus preserving timestamps. OptionsThe following command line options are…
shtool mkshadow – GNU shtool create shadow tree using symlinks Synopsisshtool mkshadow [-v|–verbose] [-t|–trace] [-a|–all] src-dir dst-dir DescriptionThis command creates a shadow tree of src-dir under dst-dir by recreating the directory hierarchy of src-dir under dst-dir and by creating the files of src-dir by linking them into the corresponding directories under dst-dir via symbolic links….
shtool mkln – GNU shtool enhanced ln(1) replacement Synopsisshtool mkln [-t|–trace] [-f|–force] [-s|–symbolic] src-path [src-path …] dst-path DescriptionThis is a ln(1) style command. It is enhanced to provide automatic calculation and usage of relative links with the shortest possible path, if possible. Usually if src-path and dst-path are not absolute paths or at least they…
shtool mkdir – GNU shtool mkdir(1) style command Synopsisshtool mkdir [-t|–trace] [-f|–force] [-p|–parents] [-m|–mode mode] [-o|–owner owner] [-g|–group group] dir [dir …] DescriptionThis is a mkdir(1) style command with additional options and the ability to be smart if the directory already exists which is important for installation procedures. OptionsThe following command line options are available….
shtool mdate – GNU shtool pretty-print last modification time Synopsisshtool mdate [-n|–newline] [-z|–zero] [-s|–shorten] [-d|–digits] [-f|–field-sep str] [-o|–order spec] path DescriptionThis command pretty-prints the last modification time of a given file or directory path, while still allowing one to specify the format of the date to display. OptionsThe following command line options are available. -n,…
shtool fixperm – GNU shtool file permission fixing command Synopsisshtool fixperm [-v|–verbose] [-t|–trace] path [path …] Descriptionshtool fixperm fixes file permissions inside a source tree under path by cleaning up the permission bits. It determines the cleaned up permission from the already set bits. It is intended to be run before a tarball is rolled…
shtool echo – GNU shtool echo(1) extensional command Synopsisshtool echo [-n|–newline] [-e|–expand] string Descriptionshtool echo is an echo(1) style command which prints string to stdout and optionally provides special expansion constructs (terminal bold mode, environment details, date, etc) and newline control. The trick of this command is that it provides a portable -n option and…
shtool arx – GNU shtool ar(1) extensional command Synopsisshtool arx [-t|–trace] [-C|–command cmd] op archive file [file …] Descriptionshtool arx is a wrapper around the archiving tool ar(1). It provides the ability to create archives out of existing archives, i.e., if one of file matches ""*.a"", the archive member files of file are used instead…
shrinkfile – shrink a file on a line boundary Synopsisshrinkfile [ -n ] [ -m maxsize ] [ -s size ] [ -v ] file… DescriptionThe shrinkfile program shrinks files to a given size if the size is larger than maxsize, preserving the data at the end of the file. Truncation is performed on line…
shred – overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it Synopsisshred [,OPTION/]… ,FILE/… DescriptionOverwrite the specified FILE(s) repeatedly, in order to make it harder for even very expensive hardware probing to recover the data. If FILE is -, shred standard output. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too….
showriff – show structure of RIFF files (wav, avi, …) Synopsisshowriff [ options ] filename Descriptionshowriff displays the structure of RIFF files. Common media files which use the RIFF format are wave-files and avi-movies. Options-h display help text -j try to decode mjpeg headers -e try to continue on errors.See Alsoc’t 11/1994, page 327 ff….