The Scriptorium

Daniel E. Singer
Department of Computer Science
Duke University

Last update: 6/14/2005

• check, et al. : Helps to keep a directory index up-to-date.
  
  
• duf : Adds heirarchical structure to du command output.
  
  
• edq : Non-interactive front-end to edquota, remote quotas, etc.
  
  
• expire : Manages expirations of individual files and directories.
  
  
• grepz : Searches files for patterns, handling compressed files and recursion.
  
  
• lsn : Force ls output to a specified number of columns.
  
  
• lst : List only files of the specified type.
  
  
• rc : Automates the process of editing an SCCS or RCS file.
  
  
• rsort : Sort multi-line text records.
  
  
• seepath : See an expanded long listing of all components of the path leading to a file or directory.
  
  
• sortmail : Reassemble standard mailbox files to be sorted by date, optionally broken up by months. You will also need decomposemail and recomposemail
  
  
• timer : An ASCII low-precision timer.
  See also: http://www.unixreview.com/documents/s=8989/ur0405b/
  
  
• vip : Interactively edit a pipeline.
  
  
  
• You'll find more stuff at the FTP site.