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

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

• 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

• flickrfind - Find Creative Commons licenced photos on Flickr

• 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

• 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.

• numlock - CLI utility to switch the NumLock ON

• passwdgen - CLI utility to generate random passwords

• 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

• 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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