This is a collection of miscellaneous utilities I've written over the years.
Their motivation/scope spans from nearly trivial access checking of okpaths to
nascent attempts or atoms of Big Things like map-reduce in shell or extreme
value estimation for benchmark time cleaning. All are tools I use in one way or
another with some regularity which I thought others might find useful. There is
a general vibe similar to util-linux
or moreutils. A great many are Unix
only tools, but some may be more cross-platform.
ft - file typer {i-node type, not file(1)/libmagic(3) type}
only - file(1)/libmagic tool to emit files whose types match
fkindc - file(1)/libmagic tool to histogram file types
notIn - Helper to manage semi-mirrored file trees
catz - Generalize zcat to many encodings, not merely gzip
dfr - d)isk fr)ee; df with color coding & modern units
lncs - analyze a file tree for hard link structure
du - Slight improvement on GNU du
rr - Mostly a short alias for rm -rf but also faster
dups - Fast finder of exact duplicate files
fpr - File Pages Resident reporting utility like fincore
cbtm - Back up & restore new Linux b-time stamps (creation/birth)
dirt - Recursively set dir time stamp to oldest of members
fage - file age according to various timestamps/rules
newest - b-time supporting `find -printf|sort|tail`
since - b-time supporting `find -Xnewer`
saft - SAve&restore File Times across a command operating on them
tmath - Convert/do arithmetic directly upon date & time formats
mk1 - Very fast make for many 1-to-1 input-output mappings
memlat - measure memory latency at various size scales
fread - Like cat but just read data (no writes)
ru - Resource Usage measurement { high-res/nicer time(1) }
etr - e)stimate t)ime r)emaining using subcommands for %done
eve - Extreme Value Estimator (e.g. true max|min of an infinite sample)
tim - Uncertain time comparison via repeated sampling & eve
edplot - Generate EDF & its confidence bands files & plot scripts
keydowns - Assess string complexity in terms of a human cost
align - align text with better ergonomics than BSD column
tails - Generalizes head & tail into one with all-but compliments
cols - extract just some columns from a text file/stream
rp - A row processor program-generator maybe replacement for AWK
crp - C row processor program-generator port of rp
colSort - Sort within the columns of rows
cstats - preserve Context/Compute Column stats filter
noc - stdin-out filter to strip ANSI CSI/OSC/SGR color escape seqs
tw - terminal-width clip/cropper with m-row bounding capability
cfold - Context folding (like csplit but to wrap lines)
unfold - Oft neglected inverse-to-wrapping/folding process
ww - Dynamic programming based word wrapper
widths - Compute & emit line widths/lengths | distro
jointr - join strace "unfinished ..." with conclusion
ndelta - Numerical difference between two reports utility
tmpls - A fast string template interpolater
topn - Fast streaming 1-pass top-N over M columns
oft - Approximately most often items via a low-memory algorithm
uce - Unique/distinct Count Estimate via a low-memory algorithm
holes - count/map hole & data segments of files
fsids - file system user & group id histogram
chom - Enforce group owner & segregated perms in file trees
thermctl - Thermal Control for before CPU makers thermally throttled
pid2 - Wrap Linux process PID table to first past target
sr - System Request Key - rapidly act on Linux systems
tattr - Terminal attribute access (like cligen/humanUt)
wsz - Report terminal size in cells, pixels, and cell size
noa - "--"-aware Python-like indexing of non-option arguments
okpaths - Validate/trim PATH-like vars by probing the system
nrel - Edit .nimble version, commit, tag, push & maybe release
dirq - Kind of its own system-building atom thing
funnel - A reliable, record boundary respecting "FIFO funnel"
stripe - Run jobs in parallel w/slot key vars/seqNos/shell elision
wgt - Weighted random sampler with fancy weighting
zipf - Random samples according to Zipf distribution
niom - nio moments w/hard dep on adix efficient histogram/quantiles
ac - aped commands with aping rules stored in local file tree
Every tool has a help message hopefully useful enough to be mostly autonomous or
at least a good reminder of its own README in doc/TOOLNAME.md. I should write
some man pages starting with help2man, but AFAICT, nimble, will not install them
anyway (there's no mention of the whole word "man" on any issue, PR, or anywhere
in the VC history of nimble, nor any default target one could add to MANPATH |
/etc/man*.conf). Many doc/TOOLNAME.md's should grow more complete/better
examples. I tried to keep the source code scrutable, but also to the point.
Doc PRs are always welcome. Though we all try, there is no substitute for
initial confusion resolving at improving docs). Some packaging meta-commentary
is here.