hxtools

A collection of tools and scripts that have accumulated over the years, and each of which seems to be too small to warrants its own project.

Resources

hxtools tarball releases
hxtools clone URL — git://git.inai.de/hxtools

Overview

Well, here is an overview of the tools, listed for search engine convenience.

bsvplay(1) — convert BASICA music files to PCM
cctypeinfo(1) – show sizes of C types on the implementation it was compiled with
checkbrack(1) — check parenthesis and bracket count
cwdiff(1) — run wdiff with color
declone(1) — break hardlinks
diff2php(1) — transform patch to self-serving PHP file
doxygen-kerneldoc-filter(1) — filter for Doxygen to support kerneldoc
extract_d3pkg(1) — extract Descent3 PKG files
extract_dxhog(1) — extract Descent HOG files
extract_f3pod(1) — extract Fury3 POD files
extract_qupak(1) — extract Quake2 PACK files
fd0ssh(1) — pipe for password-over-stdin support to ssh
fduphl(1) – find duplicate files and hardlink them
filenameconv(1) — convert file name encoding
flv2avi(1) — repackage Flash video into an AVI container with PCM audio
fnt2bdf(1) — convert VGA raw fonts to X11 BDF
fxterm(1) — start xterm with sane settings
git-author-stat(1) — show commit author statistics of a git repository
git-blame-stat(1) – show per-line author statistics of a git repository
git-export-patch(1) — produce perfect patch from git commits for mail submission
git-forest(1) — display the commit history forest
git-lemon(1) — don't just pick cherries, but take it all (cherry- pick a commit range)
git-new-root(1) — start a new root in the git history
git-revert-stats(1) — show reverting statistics of a git repository
git-track(1) — set up branch for tracking a remote
gpsh(1) — grep in tracklists and play audio files
graph-fanout(1) – fan a tree (for graphviz)
graph-lchain(1) – remove circles in graphs using longest-chaining method
logontime(8) — show cumulative logon time from wtmp
mailsplit(1) — split an mbox into single files
man2html(1) — convert nroff manpages to HTML
mod2ogg(1) — wrapper for module to OggVorbis transcoding
mpg2ogg(1) — wrapper for mass mp3 to OggVorbis transcoding
netload(8) — show utilization of network interface
newns(8) — clone current filesystem namespace and start a process
ofl(1) — open file lister (replaces fuser and lsof -m)
omixer(1) — volume control using the OSS Sound API
oplay(1) — raw PCM playback using the OSS Sound API
orec(1) — raw PCM recording using the OSS Sound API
paddrspacesize(1) – print size of processes' address spaces
pesubst(1) — perl-regexp stream substitution (replaces sed for sub‐ stitutions)
pmap_dirty(1) — display amount of RAM a process uses hard
png2wx.pl(1) — transform arbitrary files into C++ files for wxWidgets
printcaps(1) — print currently active process capabilities
proc_iomem_count(1) – show MMIO region sizes
proc_stat_signal(1) – decode /proc/self/stat for signal status
pshtreads(1) – alternative experiment to ps(1) involving thread display
qplay(1) — convert QBASIC play strings to PCM
qtar(1) – faster interface to tar with file ordering
raregetty(8) — local login program for remote hosts
recursive_lower(1) — recursively lowercase all filenames
rpmdep.pl(1) – read RPM dependencies and output a graph
sourcefuncsize(1) — statistical analysis of code
spec-beautifier(1) — program to clean up RPM .spec files
stxdb(1) — A/V file database
su1(8) – what sudo should have done
sysinfo(1) — print IRC-style system information banner
tailhex(1) — hex dumper with tail-following support
utmp_register(1) — make entries in the utmp/wtmp database
vcsaview(8) — display a screen dump in VCSA format
vfontas(1) — VGA font file assembler
wavdiff(1) — proof-of-concept raw PCM deltifier
wktimer(1) — work timer
xcp(1) — proof-of-concept cp(1) with alternate copying mechanisms
xfs_irecover(1) — recover lost inodes from XFS filesystems. (Not that XFS would be unstable - but it provides crucial measures to simplify extraction compared to other popular filesystems.)