Michel's Haiku apps, ports and resources: CLI scripts & utilities

CLI utilities are run from the command-line, do their thing and exit.

This distinguishes them from CLI Applications, which are full-blown applications that happen to run in the Terminal, and which only close down when the user tells them to. 

These are most likely of interest only to developers, not so much to general users, so they will not be listed under Recent Additions on the Main page (but they will be in Recent Updates!)

• aardvarkutils - CLI file utilities

• ASCII art generator - create ASCII art on the fly

• autoshutdown - Shut down at a predetermined time

• average - CLI utility to calculate statistical results

• banner - Print large text in the Terminal

• bash_snippets - Small bash scripts with no dependencies

• belief - Generate random religious creeds. A bit like fortune

• bemailtombox - Convert Haiku mail to mbox format

• bgrep - Search for hex codes in binary files

• bincat - Binary files concatenator

• bomstrip - Remove BOMs from UTF-8 files

• bynario - An ASCII <==> binary converter

• byte2c - Extract numbers from an executable

• byte2hex - Convert bytes to hex numbers

• casechangers - CLI utilities to change the case of all files in a folder

• chaos - A CLI binary randomizer script

• charcount - Count character use in text files

• checkbashisms - Check shell script for 'bashisms'

• cipattern - Changes string to case-insensitive regex

• cloc - Count lines of code

• colcut - CLI utility to cut long lines to a manageable length

• countchars - A CLI script to count the distribution of characters in a file

• countdown - CLI utility to count down time, then run a command

• cutief8 - convert plain ASCII quotes to their UTF-8 equivalents

• c_utilities - Three small file maintenance utilities

• dedupfiles - Deletes duplicate files

• dehtml - Convert HTML into plain text

• dendenink - CLI Note-taking app

• deroff - CLI utility to convert UNIX man files into plain text

• detox - Tame problematic filenames

• diff2html - Compare two files and write results to HTML

• dislines - CLI utility to distribute in several files the lines of a tagged text

• dos2be - CLI utility to remove carriage returns (0x0D) from DOS\Windows text files

• dox2txt - Extract text from Microsoft .docx files

• downcase - Rename files and directories with lowercase version

• Dropbox Uploader - A CLI utility to gain access to your Dropbox files

• dumptrack - CLI CD track ripper (not an encoder)

• fdupes - A CLI program for identifying duplicate files

• filesize.pl - A CLI scipt to display file size

• filetime - Determine file atime, mtime or ctime

• findequalfiles - Find equal files in a directory tree

• findstr - Like grep, but much, much simpler

• fixfilenames - Change file names to safe names, e.g. space to _

• fixpermissions - CLI utility to remove incorrect +x flags

• formakeutils - CLI utilities for developers

• freeze - CLI compression/decompression utility

• hd - CLI hex dump utility

• hex2byte - Convert hex numbers to bytes

• histo - CLI bar chart creator

• gifgen - A CLI wrapper for ffmpeg to create better animate GIFs

• haikupy - A haiku generator

• hr - A horizontal ruler for your terminal

• isocal - Command line ISO week date calendar

• jawk - Awk implemented in Java

• justify - left-justifies input text into 72-width rows

• keepalive - Ping a variety of websites

• ldd - A script that mimics the Linux ldd command

• libredice - A CLI password generator in a bash script.

• lifekeeper - Keep connections alive

• littleutils - A collection of small and simple utilities

• longestline - Find the longest line in a text file

• lorem - A Lorem Ipsum generator

• makeself - A self-extracting archiving tool in 100% shell script

• memspeed - Test your system memory's speed

• moreutils - CLI utilities from the moreutils collection

• morsegen - Generate Morse Code

• mplex - MPG stream multiplexer

• namenorm - normalize filenames

• nanoblogger - A CLI weblog engine

• normalizefrom - CLI front-end to recursively apply mp3gain

• numbase - Convert numbers into decimal/hex/oct/binary.

• numbers2words - Converti integers into English words

• numlock - CLI utility to switch the NumLock ON

• passwdgen - CLI utility to generate random passwords

• pcx_recover - Recover old, unreadable PCX files

• perlpowertools - A collection of BSD utilities implemented in Perl

• pig - A CLI tool that takes any input and returns it as Pig Latin

• pmenu - Item selector, similar to tpick

• png2gif - CLI app to convert GIF to PNG

• pub - Fixes directory by making it publicly readable and editable

• quotify - Make 'gendered' quote marks out of ascii-style ones

• randswap - CLI utility to randomize lines of text

• rbexe - CLI utility to create an empty executable script

• rename_perl - CLI utility to rename files

• rman - Convert man pages

• rmchar - Removes all the occurences of a specific byte in a file

• rt - Simple text drawing using NCurses

• rtf2html - Convert RTF files to HTML

• samuraidesigner - Plain text to HTML converter

• scat - CLI utility to display a text file at a set rate

• seashell - CLI Markdown viewer, similar to mdless

• shalbum - A CLI utility to generate a HTML album

• since - Stateful tail

• sizeattr -Calculates cumulative sizes of attributes

• sleepy - A CLI command delayer

• smartypants - CLI Text and HTML prettifyer

• spiff - A program to compare two text files

• stripwhite - A text file whitespace remover

• suck - Clear the Terminal screen differently

• sustituye - Search-and-Replace for text files

• swap2files - Swap two files' filenames

• t2r - LaTeX to RTF converter

• tab2spc - Convert tabs to spaces in text files

• tac - CLI utility to reverse the contents of a text file

• tcping - An alternative to the ping command

• terminal alerts - Terminal alerts and dialogs

• tidyspace - Clean up text files

• tpick - A simple CLI utility for picking one of a number of things

• trash_size - CLI utility gives you the size of the Trash

• trim - CLI utility to crop text files

• txt2tags - A document generator. Like Markdown but easier

• umenu - micro-menu or unnamed menu for CLI

• unarj - An unarchving utility for ARJ archives

• unimp - Unarchiver for IMP files

• unixtime - Convert time from UNIX format

• unquote - Execute a command with safely quoted arguments

• vilistextum - A CLI utlity to convert HTML to text

• vimput - CLI single-line text input with vim keybindings

• vramsteg - Progress indicator for shell scripts

• w2dobundle - A complete todo system in five perl scripts

• wgetter - Simplified wget, implemented in python

• xlreader - Read Excel files without Microsoft

• youbeaut - Three system info utilities

• zebra - CLI utility to stripe and reassemble files. Similar to GNU split.

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