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NAME shtool subst – GNU shtool sed(1) substitution operations SYNOPSIS shtool 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 …] DESCRIPTION This command applies one or more sed(1) substitution operations to stdin or any number of files. OPTIONS The following command line options are available. -v, –verbose…
NAME shtool slo – GNU shtool separate linker options by library class SYNOPSIS shtool slo [-p|–prefix str] — -Ldir -llib [-Ldir -llib …] DESCRIPTION This 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…
NAME shtool scpp – GNU shtool C source file pre-processor SYNOPSIS shtool 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 …] DESCRIPTION This 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…
NAME shtool rotate – GNU shtool log file rotation SYNOPSIS shtool 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 …] DESCRIPTION This command rotates a logfile file by subsequently creating up…
NAME shtool prop – GNU shtool propeller processing indication SYNOPSIS shtool prop [-p|–prefix str] DESCRIPTION This 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…
NAME shtool platform – GNU shtool Unix platform identification SYNOPSIS shtool 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] DESCRIPTION shtool 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…
NAME shtool path – GNU shtool command dealing with shell path variables SYNOPSIS shtool path [-s|–suppress] [-r|–reverse] [-d|–dirname] [-b|–basename] [-m|–magic] [-p|–path path] str [str …] DESCRIPTION This 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…
NAME shtool move – GNU shtool enhanced mv(1) replacement SYNOPSIS shtool move [-v|–verbose] [-t|–trace] [-e|–expand] [-p|–preserve] src-file dst-file DESCRIPTION This 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. OPTIONS The following…
NAME shtool mkshadow – GNU shtool create shadow tree using symlinks SYNOPSIS shtool mkshadow [-v|–verbose] [-t|–trace] [-a|–all] src-dir dst-dir DESCRIPTION This 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…
NAME shtool mkln – GNU shtool enhanced ln(1) replacement SYNOPSIS shtool mkln [-t|–trace] [-f|–force] [-s|–symbolic] src-path [src-path …] dst-path DESCRIPTION This 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…
NAME shtool mkdir – GNU shtool mkdir(1) style command SYNOPSIS shtool mkdir [-t|–trace] [-f|–force] [-p|–parents] [-m|–mode mode] [-o|–owner owner] [-g|–group group] dir [dir …] DESCRIPTION This 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. OPTIONS The following command…
NAME shtool mdate – GNU shtool pretty-print last modification time SYNOPSIS shtool mdate [-n|–newline] [-z|–zero] [-s|–shorten] [-d|–digits] [-f|–field-sep str] [-o|–order spec] path DESCRIPTION This 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. OPTIONS The following command line…
NAME shtool fixperm – GNU shtool file permission fixing command SYNOPSIS shtool fixperm [-v|–verbose] [-t|–trace] path [path …] DESCRIPTION shtool 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…
NAME shtool echo – GNU shtool echo(1) extensional command SYNOPSIS shtool echo [-n|–newline] [-e|–expand] string DESCRIPTION shtool 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…
NAME shtool arx – GNU shtool ar(1) extensional command SYNOPSIS shtool arx [-t|–trace] [-C|–command cmd] op archive file [file …] DESCRIPTION shtool 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…
NAME shrinkfile – shrink a file on a line boundary SYNOPSIS shrinkfile [ -n ] [ -m maxsize ] [ -s size ] [ -v ] file… DESCRIPTION The 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…
NAME shred – overwrite a file to hide its contents, and optionally delete it SYNOPSIS shred [,OPTION/]… ,FILE/… DESCRIPTION Overwrite 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…
NAME showriff – show structure of RIFF files (wav, avi, …) SYNOPSIS showriff [ options ] filename DESCRIPTION showriff 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…
NAME showrgb – display an rgb color-name database SYNOPSIS showrgb [ database ] DESCRIPTION The showrgb program reads an rgb color-name database from a text file and converts it back to source form, printing the result to standard output. The default database is the one that X was built with, and may be overridden on…
NAME showkey – examine the codes sent by the keyboard SYNOPSIS showkey [-h|–help] [-a|–ascii] [-s|–scancodes] [-k|–keycodes] [-V|–version] DESCRIPTION showkey prints to standard output either the scan codes or the keycode or the `ascii’ code of each key pressed. In the first two modes the program runs until 10 seconds have elapsed since the last key…