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Command line tools

In the years I have been programming, I have written many command line tools. Most of them were useful but have been superseded by tools that came with the operating system. But some have survived, and so I kept them. I want to share some of them with you.

<dl> <dt>cal</dt> <dd>A tool which prints the calendar for one or more months to the screen.</dd> <dt>echoc</dt> <dd>A simple tool to display a string in different colours.</dd> <dt>eolconv</dt> <dd>A tool that converts all line endings of a text file to a specified style or to the default for the platform.</dd> <dt>exact</dt> <dd>A tool to show the exact values of floating point variables in single, double and extended precision and in hex.</dd> <dt>slack</dt> <dd>A tool which calculates the disk space wasted, because of cluster size, on the files in a certain directory.</dd> <dt>whereis</dt> <dd>A tool which tries to find which executable (or executables) will be called if you enter its name on the command line.</dd> </dl>

More about these tools on my web pages.