Gentoo Project

Shell Tools Project

acct-group

• acct-group/beep

  System group: beep
• acct-group/vlock

  A group for app-misc/vlock

app-admin

• app-admin/entr

  Run arbitrary commands when files change
• app-admin/procinfo-ng

  Completely rewrite of the old system monitoring app procinfo

app-arch

• app-arch/hardlink

  A tool which replaces copies of a file with hardlinks

app-benchmarks

• app-benchmarks/ioping

  Simple disk I/0 latency measuring tool

app-misc

• app-misc/beep

  Advanced PC speaker beeper
• app-misc/bfr

  General-purpose command-line pipe buffer
• app-misc/binclock

  Displays a binary clock in your terminal
• app-misc/birthday

  Displays a list of events happening in the near future
• app-misc/boxes

  Draw any kind of boxes around your text
• app-misc/byobu

  A set of profiles for the GNU Screen console window manager (app-misc/screen)
• app-misc/calendar

  Standard unix calendar program for Linux, ported from OpenBSD
• app-misc/cdargs

  Bookmarks and browser for the shell builtin cd command
• app-misc/color

  Easily add ANSI colouring to shell scripts
• app-misc/colordiff

  Colorizes output of diff
• app-misc/countrycodes

  An ISO 3166 country code finder
• app-misc/cw

  A non-intrusive real-time ANSI color wrapper for common unix-based commands
• app-misc/delay

  Sleeplike program that counts down the number of seconds specified
• app-misc/detachtty

  Attach/detach from interactive processes across the network
• app-misc/detox

  Safely remove spaces and strange characters from filenames
• app-misc/devtodo

  Hierarchical command-line task manager
• app-misc/dtach

  Emulates the detach feature of screen
• app-misc/fdupes

  Identify/delete duplicate files residing within specified directories
• app-misc/fsniper

  Monitors a given set of directories for new files
• app-misc/gcal

  The GNU Calendar - a replacement for cal
• app-misc/gnuit

  GNU Interactive Tools - increase speed and efficiency of most daily tasks
• app-misc/grc

  Generic Colouriser beautifies your logfiles or output of commands
• app-misc/hatools

  High availability environment tools for shell scripting
• app-misc/hilite

  Utility which highlights stderr text in red
• app-misc/jot

  Print out increasing, decreasing, random, or redundant data
• app-misc/leave

  FreeBSD command-line tool that reminds you when its time to leave
• app-misc/lxsplit

  Command-line file splitter/joiner for Linux
• app-misc/mmv

  Move/copy/append/link multiple files according to a set of wildcard patterns
• app-misc/ondir

  Automatically execute scripts as you traverse directories
• app-misc/reptyr

  A utility to attach a running program to a new terminal
• app-misc/rl

  Randomize lines from text files or stdin
• app-misc/screen

  screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
• app-misc/splitvt

  Splitting terminals into two shells
• app-misc/supercat

  A text file colorizer using powerful regular expressions
• app-misc/symlinks

  Scans for and fixes broken or messy symlinks
• app-misc/tdl

  Command line To Do List manager
• app-misc/timestamp

  A text filtering pipe that marks each line with a timestamp
• app-misc/tmux

  Terminal multiplexer
• app-misc/tmux2html

  Render full tmux windows or individual panes as HTML
• app-misc/tmux-xpanes

  tmux-based terminal divider
• app-misc/tpipe

  Command to duplicate standard input to more than one program
• app-misc/ttyload

  color-coded graph of load averages over time
• app-misc/unfoo

  Simple bash driven frontend to simplify decompression of files
• app-misc/vcp

  Copy files/directories in a curses interface
• app-misc/vlock

  Allows to lock one or all of the sessions of your console display
• app-misc/wcd

  Wherever Change Directory
• app-misc/when

  Minimalistic personal calendar program

app-shells

• app-shells/bash-completion

  Programmable Completion for bash
• app-shells/gentoo-bashcomp

  Gentoo-specific bash command-line completions (emerge, ebuild, equery, etc)
• app-shells/hstr

  Shell history suggest box
• app-shells/tmux-bash-completion

  bash-completion scripts for tmux

app-text

• app-text/bogosort

  A file sorting program which uses the bogosort algorithm
• app-text/crm114

  A powerful text processing tool, mainly used for spam filtering
• app-text/dos2unix

  Convert DOS or MAC text files to UNIX format or vice versa
• app-text/fzy

  Fuzzy text selector (interactive grep) for console
• app-text/hd2u

  Dos2Unix like text file converter
• app-text/htag

  random signature maker
• app-text/multitail

  Tail with multiple windows
• app-text/recode

  Convert files between various character sets
• app-text/rpl

  Intelligent recursive search/replace utility
• app-text/talkfilters

  Convert ordinary English text into text that mimics a stereotyped dialect
• app-text/vilistextum

  HTML to ASCII converter programmed to handle incorrect html
• app-text/wdiff

  Create a diff disregarding formatting

app-vim

• app-vim/vim-tmux

  vim plugin: tmux support for vim

dev-libs

• dev-libs/tre

  Lightweight, robust, and efficient POSIX compliant regexp matching library

dev-python

• dev-python/chainstream

  Chain I/O-Streams together into a single stream

dev-util

• dev-util/colorgcc

  Perl script to colorise the gcc output
• dev-util/diffstat

  Display a histogram of diff changes
• dev-util/patchutils

  Collection of tools that operate on patch files
• dev-util/shflags

  Command-line flags module for Unix shell scripts
• dev-util/txt2regex

  A Regular Expression wizard that converts human sentences to regexs

dev-vcs

• dev-vcs/colorcvs

  A tool based on colorgcc to beautify cvs output

games-misc

• games-misc/usolitaire

  solitaire in your terminal

sec-keys

• sec-keys/openpgp-keys-colordiff

  OpenPGP keys used to sign colordiff releases

sys-apps

• sys-apps/bar

  Console Progress Bar
• sys-apps/dog

  Dog is better than cat
• sys-apps/most

  Paging program that displays, one windowful at a time, the contents of a file

sys-process

• sys-process/iotop

  Top-like UI used to show which process is using the I/O
• sys-process/prll

  Utility for parallelizing execution of shell functions
• sys-process/psinfo

  Process information and statistics using the kernel /proc interface

x11-misc

• x11-misc/viewglob

  Graphical display of directories and globs referenced at the shell prompt

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