MiscTools package is a collection of small but
useful utilities. Though they are small and trivial,
I've found these programs to be indispensable. The
utilities are:
- bat
- A binary dump program; similar to the UNIX od command, but produces output in a much more useful format.
- cpmod
- A program to copy file permissions.
- dirstack
- A curses-based directory browser/selector.
- dirtree
- A program that generates a hierarchical list of filenames for a given directory tree.
- ftrunc
- A program that truncates files to specified lengths.
- pascii
- A program that reads characters from the keyboard and displays their ASCII codes in various formats.
- pfortune
- A program that prints out random fortunes.
- ranline
- A program that reads a line at random from a file.
- stat
- A program that prints out information about a file.
- textlock
- A password-protection program like xlock for use on text terminals.
- tformat
- A program that reformats text, wrapping words as necessary, to fit within a specified number of columns.
- watcherd
- A program that watches the size of a file and invokes another program when the file size increases.
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