Scylla and Charybdis, Tools

The tools are developed under Linux with ESR's paradigm release early, release often in mind.
So you can consider this beta software, or alpha, or pre-alpha, or even worse ;)

Have a look in the download directory for all downloads.
As always here, all you get is the source. No binaries here.

Tools

[ main | all | unfinished | special | abandoned | outdated ] order by name or date (RSS)

These are the main tools which are probably helpful for others. To see all tools, choose "all".

• checkrun: Program watchdog to terminate a program with starving output (download latest version 0.0.2-20090110-081959, sig)
• cmpfast: Fast compare two files binary (download latest version 0.2.3-20100330-214523, sig)
• count: Copy lines, shows progress (download latest version 0.1.1-20090921-223427, sig)
• dbm: A little tool to access gdbm files from shell. (download latest version 0.11.0-20080519-114741, sig)
• dirlist: Primitive directory lister, quicker than ls, find and echo * (download latest version 0.6.1-20111116-041456, sig)
• diskus: Disk geometry checking and repair tool (download latest version 0.6.4-20110729-224557, sig)
• getrealpath: Print realpath to stdout (download latest version 0.2.0-20111024-061004, sig)
• histogram: Count bytes in file (download latest version 0.0.0-20080817-233833, sig)
• kdmktone: Make the console beep (download latest version 0.0.0-20061021-043020)
• keypressed: Nonblocking, nondestructible test for waiting data on TTYs, sockets and probably pipes (download latest version 0.1.0-20090304-005423, sig)
• killmem: Protect some memory against paging until you need free memory (download latest version 0.2.0-20081101-104442, sig)
• lockdir: Create a directory for locking purpose (download latest version 0.0.0-20080803-234403, sig)
• lockrun: Exclusively run something by placing a file lock (download latest version 0.6.2-20110613-163042, sig)
• md5chk: Create md5sums for easy shell usage (download latest version 0.7.0-20111017-143949, sig)
• minicron: This is a program which starts other programs after some time (download latest version 0.0.0-20080118-042430, sig)
• mvatom: Move files by atomic rename instead of copy. (download latest version 0.4.4-20110825-142933, sig)
• printansi: Like /bin/echo but ANSI-escapes the output (download latest version 0.1.0-20100112-032113, sig)
• printargs: Like "hello world" but dumps the argc array (download latest version 0.0.1-20080531-225835, sig)
• ptybuffer: daemonize interactive tty line driven programs with output history (download latest version 0.6.4-20071020-171424, sig)
• runningfor: Return true until the given time periode is reached. (download latest version 0.0.0-20090527-180940, sig)
• slowdown: Slowdown processes or pipes. (download latest version 0.2.1-20090204-160027, sig)
• socklinger: Execute quick hack shell scripts connected to a socket. (download latest version 2.4.0-20100126-154808, sig)
• sq: SQLITE3 query tool for shell usage (download latest version 0.5.0-20090529-180428, sig)
• timeout: Execute a command or pipe only for a given duration. (download latest version 0.0.3-20101021-011348, sig)
• timestart: Start a program N-M times in parallel by running it it each A-B seconds (download latest version 0.1.0-20111013-022104, sig)
• tinohtmlparse: Simple HTML parser to extract information from HTML files by shell (download latest version 0.3.1-20090713-002009, sig)
• tinoseq: An integer seq implementation (download latest version 0.0.0-20070408-124243)
• udevraw: Dump udev events for bash usage (download latest version 0.1.0-20110918-184628, sig)
• unbuffered: Copy stdin to stdout and stderr, unbuffered (download latest version 0.3.0-20111022-224132, sig)
• watcher: A Python2.6 script to watch files, pipes or Unix domain sockets (download latest version 0.2.2-20100727-022233, sig)

License and Disclaimer All you can see here is free software according to the GNU GPL. Copyright (C)2000-2011 by Valentin Hilbig Note that the software comes with absolutely no warranty of any kind. You use the software at your own risk. Valentin Hilbig cannot be hold responsible for any unintended damage, lost data or malfunction of the software you can find here.