madx / Moreutils

This is a collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago, when unix was young. Currently it consists of these tools:

chronic: runs a command quietly unless it fails combine: combine the lines in two files using boolean operations ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output isutf8: check if a file or standard input is utf-8 ifne: run a command if the standard input is not empty lckdo: execute a program with a lock held (deprecated) mispipe: pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first parallel: run multiple jobs at once pee: tee standard input to pipes sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file ts: timestamp standard input vidir: edit a directory in your text editor vipe: insert a text editor into a pipe zrun: automatically uncompress arguments to command

Its web page is here: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/moreutils/

Your suggestions of additional tools to add to this collection are appreciated. The web page lists some that are under consideration but have not yet been included, I also welcome feedback on which of these to include.

-- Joey Hess [email protected]