Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-09-04 Thread J. Scott Edwards
I had no idea all of these existed (I have heard of zsh). Is there anyway of finding these things out? Apropos won't work if you don't have them installed? Thanks -Scott On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Clint Adams wrote: > And if you use zsh, you don't need to bother with mmv or rename, since > there'

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-09-04 Thread J. Scott Edwards
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Malcolm Parsons wrote: > On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:07:28PM -0600, J. Scott Edwards wrote: > > > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > > > > > > > >> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > tab and untab (I just discovered that this can be don

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-09-04 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 08:19:54AM +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > little endian hex dump > May be interesting. Should be an option to "od", really. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-09-04 Thread J. Scott Edwards
On 3 Sep 2002, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > "J. Scott Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed Aug 28 11:37:29 2002 Allan Wind wrote: > > > On 2002-08-27 21:59:28, J. Scott Edwards wrote: > > > > file slicer (that can slice up a file into different size chunks). > > > > > > dd? > > > > Yea,

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-09-04 Thread Clint Adams
> rename 's/\.c$/.x/' cumbersome? Come on. s///? Backslash? $? Not one, but two single quotes? One may as well type for i in *.c ; mv $i ${i/.c(#e)/.x} or for i (*.c) { mv $i ${i%c}x } I really would rather type ren *.c *.x. But then, I don't think in perl.

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-09-03 Thread Joey Hess
Clint Adams wrote: > alias ren='noglob zmv -W' > ren *.c *.x Ok, I love zsh and all, but: RUN AWAY!! > I find the last preferable to the more cumbersome syntaxes of rename and > mmv. rename 's/\.c$/.x/' cumbersome? -- see shy jo, suffering 4dos flashbacks (see my .zshrc) pgpl43ZOy1ZMN.pgp De

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-09-03 Thread Clint Adams
And if you use zsh, you don't need to bother with mmv or rename, since there's zmv. > > Anyway, it's similar to the 'rename' command that someone else mentioned. > > It renames multiple files like converting all the files in a directory > > from upper to lower case > > mmv \* \#l1 zmv '(*)' '$

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-09-03 Thread Malcolm Parsons
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:07:28PM -0600, J. Scott Edwards wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > > > > >> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > tab and untab (I just discovered that this can be done with pr). > > > If it can be done with something else it

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-09-03 Thread Goswin Brederlow
"J. Scott Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed Aug 28 11:37:29 2002 Allan Wind wrote: > > On 2002-08-27 21:59:28, J. Scott Edwards wrote: > > > file slicer (that can slice up a file into different size chunks). > > > > dd? > > Yea, that would do it, slightly more cumbersome to use. spli

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-09-03 Thread J. Scott Edwards
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, I wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 Romain Lerallut wrote: > > > > Thus spake J. Scott Edwards on Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:59:28PM -0600: > > > file renamer (that can change case). > > > > Just asking: anything that mmv can't do ? > > > > (I guess that you meant 'mv'?) > I feel

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-09-03 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 01:02:20PM -0600, J. Scott Edwards wrote: > On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 Romain Lerallut wrote: > > Thus spake J. Scott Edwards on Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:59:28PM -0600: > > > file renamer (that can change case). > > > > Just asking: anything that mmv can't do ? > > (I guess that yo

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-09-03 Thread J. Scott Edwards
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > >> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > tab and untab (I just discovered that this can be done with pr). > > If it can be done with something else it might not be too necessary. It > > is your choice though. > > JFYI, it can als

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-09-03 Thread J. Scott Edwards
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 Romain Lerallut wrote: > > Thus spake J. Scott Edwards on Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:59:28PM -0600: > > file renamer (that can change case). > > Just asking: anything that mmv can't do ? > (I guess that you meant 'mv'?) Anyway, it's similar to the 'rename' command that someone e

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-09-03 Thread J. Scott Edwards
On Wed Aug 28 11:37:29 2002 Allan Wind wrote: > > On 2002-08-27 21:59:28, J. Scott Edwards wrote: > > tab and untab (I just discovered that this can be done with pr). > > tr I'm not the brightest bulb in the box, so perhaps it's just me, but tr seems kind of a complicated way to do this. I don'

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-08-28 Thread Mark Ferlatte
begin Oohara Yuuma quote on Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 11:57:31PM +0900: > > generate id3 tags from file name (probably not generally useful). > It may save some perl one-liner. id3ren does this. M pgp7m14E3fGi3.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-08-28 Thread Andreas Rottmann
Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > convert wave <--> raw audio files > > examine wave/raw audio files and print stats > > change amplitude of wave/raw audio files > > adjust lead in/lead out of wave/raw audio files > Could be packaged together too. > Have a look at sox - do your progra

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-08-28 Thread Oohara Yuuma
On Tue, 27 Aug 2002 21:59:28 -0600 (MDT), "J. Scott Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > little endian hex dump Can this tackle the length of int? > find a file within a file Can you elaborate? Is it something like tar -x or munpack? > duplicate file remover interesting > file renamer (that ca

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-08-28 Thread Peter De Wachter
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:59:28PM -0600, J. Scott Edwards wrote: > convert wave <--> raw audio files > examine wave/raw audio files and print stats > change amplitude of wave/raw audio files > adjust lead in/lead out of wave/raw audio files Have you looked at sox? It does these things and a lot m

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-08-28 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
>> Ola Lundqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > tab and untab (I just discovered that this can be done with pr). > If it can be done with something else it might not be too necessary. It > is your choice though. JFYI, it can also be done with expand. -- Marcelo | This signatur

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-08-28 Thread Romain Lerallut
Thus spake J. Scott Edwards on Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:59:28PM -0600: > file renamer (that can change case). Just asking: anything that mmv can't do ? regards, Romain

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-08-28 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* "J. Scott Edwards" | file renamer (that can change case). what's wrong with rename(1)? -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' :

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-08-28 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:59:28PM -0600, J. Scott Edwards wrote: > > I guess I was worried that they are so trivial that any of the real > programmers on this list could recreate them in 5 minutes with sed, awk, > and perl. :) > > But, well ok: > > little endian hex dump May be interesting. >

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-08-27 Thread J. Scott Edwards
I guess I was worried that they are so trivial that any of the real programmers on this list could recreate them in 5 minutes with sed, awk, and perl. :) But, well ok: little endian hex dump find a file within a file duplicate file remover tab and untab (I just discovered that this can be done w

Re: Dumb little utilities

2002-08-27 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 17:11, J. Scott Edwards wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a compiler (based upon SmallEiffel) and a bunch of dumb little > utilites that I have been planning to make .deb files for. But I don't > know if they have enough general appeal to make them official, or if I > should jus

Dumb little utilities

2002-08-27 Thread J. Scott Edwards
Hello, I have a compiler (based upon SmallEiffel) and a bunch of dumb little utilites that I have been planning to make .deb files for. But I don't know if they have enough general appeal to make them official, or if I should just make them and put them on my SourceForge project pages. Does any