tangetools/README

Tools developed by Ole Tange <ole@tange.dk>.

Probably not useful for you, but then again you never now.

blink - blink disks in a disk enclosure
       
bsearch - binary search through sorted text files.

duplicate-packets - Duplicate packets on an interface. Useful if wifi is bad.

em - Force emacs to run in terminal. Use xemacs if installed.

field - Split on space. Give the given field number. Supports syntax 1-3,6-

forever - Run the same command or list of commands every second.

G - shorthand for multi level grep.

gitnext - Checkout next revision. Opposite of 'checkout HEAD^'.

gitundo - Undo commit.

histogram - make and display a histogram on the command line.

neno - No error no output. Only print STDERR and STDOUT if the command fails.

off - Turn off monitor.

pdfman - Convert man page to pdf and display it using evince.

puniq - Print unique lines the first time they are seen.

ramusage - Display the ram usage of a program using `time -v`.

rand - Generate (pseudo-)random data.

rclean - Remove files with MD5 sums recorded by rrm (see below).

reniced - Renice all commands running more than 1 CPU minute unless they are niced or whitelisted.

rn - Move file(s)/dir(s) to .rm/ (wastebasket).

rrm - Record file's MD5 sum before removing it.

shython - Shebang wrapper for cython.

sound-reload - Reload sound system.

stdout - Redirect both STDERR and STDOUT to STDOUT.

swapout - Force swapping out.

T - tee stdout to and from temporary files.

timestamp - prepend timestamp to output.

tracefile - List files/dirs being accessed by program.

upsidedown - flip input upside down.

w4it-for-port-open - Block until the given port opens on a given host.

wastebasket - VLC extension for moving current file to a wastebasket.

wifi-reload - Reload wifi drivers.

wssh - Shorthand for w4it-for-port-open $host 22; ssh $host

ytv - Download video and play it as soon as it is partially downloaded.

yyyymmdd - Date in ISO8601 compressed format.