Name

hxtools — Suite of various shell scripts and other stuff

Description

hxtools is Jan Engelhardt's accumulated tool collection.

Components

bin2c(1) – embed data files into C as variables

bsvplay(1) – convert BASICA music files to PCM

cctypeinfo(1) – show sizes of some C types on the implementation it was compiled with

checkbrack(1) – check parenthesis and bracket count

clock_info(1) – print info about system clocks

cwdiff(1) – run wdiff with color

declone(1) – break hardlinks

diff2php(1) – transform patch to self-serving PHP file

doxygen-kernel-filter(1) – a doxygen filter for doxygen to understand KernelDoc

extract_d3pkg(1) – extract Descent3 PKG files

extract_dxhog(1) – extract Descent HOG files

extract_f3pod(1) – extract Fury3 POD files

extract_qupak(1) – extract Quake2 PACK files

fd0ssh(1) – pipe for password-over-stdin support to ssh

filenameconv(1) – convert file name encoding

fxterm(1) – start xterm with VGA color palette

git-author-stat(1) – show commit author statistics of a git repository

git-blame-stat(1) – show per-line author statistics of a git repository

git-forest(1) – display the commit history forest

git-revert-stats(1) – show reverting statistics of a git repository

git-track(1) – set up branch for tracking a remote

gpsh(1) – grep tracklists and play audio files

graph-fanout(1) – fan a tree (for graphviz)

graph-lchain(1) – remove circles in graphs using longest-chaining method

hcdplay(1) – control autonomous CDDA playback using Linux ioctls

logontime(8) – show cumulative logon time from wtmp

mailsplit(1) – split an mbox into single files

man2html(1) – convert nroff manpages to HTML

mkvappend(1) – concatenate multiple files into one Matroska container file

mod2opus(1) – wrapper for tracker module/MIDI to Opus transcoding

hxnetload(8) – show utilization of network interface

ofl(1) – open file lister

paddrspacesize(1) – print size of processes' address spaces

pcmdiff(1) – proof-of-concept raw PCM deltifier

pegrep(1) – multi-line perl-regexp grep

peicon(1) – extract icon resources from PE files

pesubst(1) – perl-regexp stream substitution (replaces sed for substitutions)

pmap_dirty(1) – print amount of dirty pages of a process (somewhat indicative of its memory use)

png2wx.pl(1) – transform arbitrary files into C++ files for wxWidgets

proc_iomem_count(1) – show MMIO region sizes

proc_stat_signal(1) – decode /proc/self/stat for signal status

pshtreads(1) – alternative experiment to ps(1) involving thread display

qplay(1) – convert QBASIC play strings to PCM

qtar(1) – faster interface to tar with file ordering

raregetty(8) – local login program for remote hosts

recursive_lower(1) – recursively lowercase all filenames

rot13(1) – shortcut to invoke tr(1) for ROT13

rpmdep.pl(1) – read RPM dependencies and output a graph

sourcefuncsize(1) – statistical analysis of code

spec-beautifier(1) – program to clean up RPM .spec files

ssa2srt(1) – convert SubStation Alpha (SSA) subtitles to SubRip (SRT)

su1(8) – what sudo should have done

sysinfo(1) – print IRC-style system information banner

tailhex(1) – hex dumper with tail-following support

utmp_register(1) – make entries in the utmp/wtmp database

vcsaview(8) – display a screen dump in VCSA format

vfontas(1) – VGA font file assembler

wktimer(1) – work timer

xcp(1) – proof-of-concept cp(1) with alternate copying mechanisms

xfs_irecover(8) – recover lost inodes from XFS filesystems

Removed components

Some helpers have been recently removed because they have found better equivalents.

git-export-patch. Replaced by `git format-patch -M -M` (can be chained to mail through `git send-email ... --format-patch -M -M`). The TortoiseSVN hack that git-export-patch offered was dropped without replacement.

clt2bdf. Replaced by `vfontas -loadclt ... -savebdf ...` and `vfontas -loadclt ... -savesfd ...`.

clt2pbm. Replaced by `vfontas -loadclt ... -savepbm ...`.

cltxscale. Replaced by `vfontas -loadclt ... -saven1 ...`.

cltxscale -N. Replaced by `vfontas -loadclt ... -upscale N N`.

fnt2bdf. Replaced by `vfontas -loadfnt ... -savebdf ...`.

git-new-root. Replaced by `git checkout --orphan; rm -Rf`.

omixer. Replaced by the utility "amixer".

oplay. Replaced by the utility "aplay".

orec. Replaced by the utility "arecord".

fduphl. Replaced by the system utility "hardlink".