Applications
Processes Unix format text files for pcdos by
forcing the line endings to be Carriage Return plus Line Feed (CRLF).
Turns the files passed on the command line into a
stream of CGI compatible text output. The javascript show_file method
(see the
source for this page) is preferred since it is lighter weight and
doesn't
need cgi, but there are some situations where cgi is the only option
(older
browsers or requirements of no javascript).
Replaces the suffix of all filenames in the current
directory
with a different suffix. Suffix here is defined as the set of
characters
after the last period ('.') in the name. Note this will not work
for
names without suffices.
Copies files from a source directory into a
destination directory. The files are only copied when they are
missing in the destination or when the destination version has
different contents. The syntax looks like this:
cpdiff source destination
The assumption is that the files in the source directory are somehow
better, newer or more complete than the set of files in the destination.
Similar to cpdiff, but this utility sets the
destination file's time stamp to "now". This should cause the new
or changed files in the destination directory to be more recent than
anything else in there. This is helpful sometimes for forcing
compilation of modified source files.
Compares two directory hierarchies and the files
they
contain. The first parameter is a directory
to compare against "this" directory;
every subdirectory "here" will be traversed in order to build the
output file that shows the differences. An optional second
argument can be used to specify a different directory than the current
one as the source of the comparison (the first argument is always the
destination of the comparison).
Collects the contents of the files whose names are
passed on the command line into one gigundo stream which is passed to
standard output. The output can be piped into another file as desired.
Performs some useful activities for the shell
environment. Using the environment variable for FEISTY_MEOW_SCRIPTS (which
is set in the appropriate startup files to be the shell scripts
directory, where all this stuff lives), generate_aliases will create
all of the aliases files for the combinations of operating systems and
types of shells supported. Currently this includes Linux, Unix,
PCDOS, OS/2 and MS-WIN32 (9x, NT, 2K, XP, etc) for
supported operating systems. The shell languages supported are
dos's command, nt's cmd, unix's sh and bash, and perl. This script will also look for
any files ending in ".sh" or ".pl" and it will create aliases for them
in forms appropriate to the different shells. The .zz_feisty_loading
subdirectory is created under the home directory as a storage place for the generated script
files.
Generates a signature file from the nechung
database
using the 'nechung' application. See the Feisty Meow Concerns Codebase for the nechung
application.
The database for nechung resides in the whole Feisty Meow Concerns code package in "feisty_meow/infobase".
Renames all of the files passed on the command line
such that they are only in lower-case. Useful if you're tired of
passing mistakenly re-capitalized names from a defective 8.3 OS (e.g.
Doze95/98) to
a file system where you care about the case.
Finds all executable files in the current directory
(and subdirectories) and runs them. The output of the programs is
sent to standard output. Standard error is used to report which
file is being worked on, plus the running programs' own standard error
streams are merged into runner's standard error stream. This
makes it nice to do something like:
runner >runs.log
where the runs.log file will contain the output of each program that
was executed and the console will be sent messages as each program is
started and finished (and errors show up at the console also).
Makes deleting files and directories a little less
nerve-wracking. If you substitute safedel as an alias for rm or
del or deltree or whatever, it will make a zipped backup of the items
before they are actually deleted. Safedel keeps track of a number
that is attached to each zip to enforce uniquely numbered
archives. They are stored in a directory named "zz_safedel_keep"
that is stored under the temorary directory (specified by the
environment
variable named TMP). A report of the contents of the compressed
trash
is appended to a file named "zz_safedel.rpt" in the TMP directory.
Occasional
cleaning of the deleted files folder is recommend, but this utility has
saved
my various parts several times already.
A snarf utility that packages up the
important configuration files in a Linux installation.
A selective snarf of the source hierarchy.
This
collects the code that I manage. As such, this is probably
irrelevant to anyone but CAK.
Gathers all "important" files from the home
directory.
This
is somewhat personally tuned but it includes files and directories that
have
"project", "notes", or "crucial" in their name.
A source code grabbing snarfer. The entire
source
code hierarchy is snarfed. Note that one should edit the
hierarchy
location to make it appropriate for your local source code.
Offers a directory listing along with total file
sizes
and disk free space.
This is a helper utility that synchronizes the binary
outputs from a build process with an existing installed location. Given a target directory, the executable
programs and dynamic libraries that exist there will be synchronized
with the build repository's versions. This is kind of a quickie
upgrade process, as long as the files in the target location are not
locked by other processes.
Uses the snarfer utilities to undo a previously
snarfed file. A folder named "snarf_BASE" is created for the
contents, where BASE
is replaced with the basename of the snarf file (that is, without the
".snarf"
suffix). The number that tracks the snarf files of this type is
updated
such that the next snarf file will be at least one higher than this
snarf's
sorta
unique number. The number will be managed correctly if you're
always
unsnarfing the most recent snarf files before creating any new snarfs.
Since all of my file deletion commands are aliases
to safedel, it is hard to actually remove a
file. If I'm really really sure that a file or directory needs to
be
permanently deleted, then this command can be used. It shows the
names
it is removing also, but it does _not_ ask for confirmation.
Tests the system for survival
past the year 2038, which is when the Unix time scale runs out of bits
for the number of seconds since 1970 measured in a 32 bit integer.
Removes empty directories and directories
containing only
unimportant crud (see "filename_helper.pl").
If there are no arguments, then the current directory is cleaned up;
any subdirectories
will be traversed into and removed if it seems appropriate.
Otherwise,
zapdirs operates on the arguments passed to it as if they are directory
names
to be cleaned.
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