TODO - I have a lot of notes elsewhere, which need to be added
rename.pl from The Perl Cookbook
A program, or perl script, which does regular expression-enhanced batch renaming.
Essential.
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file utilities
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https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
A ubiquitous byte-copying tool.
I use this for copying disks, partitions and ISOs.
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Part of GNU's "coreutils"
This was wholly obsoleted by find_tools.sh (and find_tools_media.sh)
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(on Wikipedia)
http://www.gnu.org/software/findutils/
"The GNU Find Utilities" is one of those packages that's installed everywhere. find is one of those programs everyone ends up using and ends up being horrified at.
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aka GNU Find Utilities
See also:
https://web.archive.org/*/www.codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/dirwatch/
Apparently it requires sqlite - but gem is fucking insane and locks my system up trying to update.
nice -n gem install sqlite
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(on Wikipedia)
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/ [ 1 ] was https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/ [ 2 ] was ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/
Create a hex dump of a file.
Part of util-linux.
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od -- Same thing.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/od-invocation.html
Dump files in octal and other formats
Piece of shit.. can't be used to reverse itself. Use xxd.
See also:
http://www.xpdfreader.com/ [ 1 ] was http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
A PDF viewer.
I wasn't impressed.
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has
xpdf-tools(untested)
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