Unix scripts

On this page you find some handy unix scripts which I programed by my self. The page itself was also created by the script createScriptTable. It uses also a header and foother HTML-page and the parameter -html to generate HTML ouput.

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*Script*	*Description*
about	print user information
asc2iso	converts CP 437/850 "Umlaute" to ISO 8859 equivalents
backup	backup a directory tree
base	print number to different bases
cdbackup	create a cd-image and write it
cdimage	create a cd-image
clean	clean up
cleanupbookmarks	cleans a netscape bookmark up
createScriptTable	create an html-table with all script-descriptions and links
diff2html	convert diff output to HTML
dirmod	change permission of a directorytree
dirown	change owner of a directorytree
display	set the display variable correct
doFtp	execute a ftp-command on a specific host
dspell	check german word with ispell
espell	check english words with ispell
findholes	find security holes
getspaces	create a string with a given number of spaces
gettabs	create a string with a given number of tabs
htmltable	format input in HTML table form
idle	find all idle users
isdigit	test if the argument is a number
iso2asc	convert German "Umlaute" from ISO 8859 to CP 437
iso2html	changes ISO 8859 special characters to HTML-characters
javacompile	compile a java application which is defined in the
javarun	start a java application which is defined in the
killbyname	kill process by given name
latextools	simple script to view / print and convert latex files
loged	find all users on the system which where loged in
lsdots	list all dot files in a directory
lt	directory list with summary
maketargets	show targets in a Makefile
manprint	print man pages to the printer
mansave	saves a man page into a file
modifiedFiles	Searches all modified files
parsesrc	search methods or javadoc description in source (Java, C++, C). It can also filter javadoc description from src.
pfind	search a text in files
removeipc
rscape	start Netscape with a URL. If Netscape is already
savedots	save all dot files in a directory
setdate	Sets the date from a timeserver.
spellLatex	check latex text with ispell
striphtml	remove HTML tags from input
tabulize	substitute whitspace with TABs or TABs with whitspace
tolower	change filename with upper letter to lower letters
toupper	change filename with lower letters to upper letters
updatetime	sets the time from a time server
verifyJavaSource	verify java sources
winmount	mounts a windows driver or directory with samba
writeimage	write a image on a cd

bin/cvs

The scripts in this section wrappes the common cvs commands and extends the cvs to a non-concurrent version system. I know that this is NOT the idea of cvs but I used a good version system like cvs with the functionality of cvs. RCS was not the solution because it works only on a local mounted filesystem.

*Script*	*Description*
cvsadd	add files to the cvs
cvsannotate	show last revision where each line was modified
cvscheckout	checkout a module from cvs
cvscommit	commit and unlock files from the cvs
cvsdiff	show the diff between two revisions
cvsedit	lock files from the cvs
cvseditors	show all editors
cvshistory	shows a history of cvs
cvslog	show log messages from cvs
cvsremove	remove files from the cvs
cvsshowold	show from a given file an older version
cvsstatus	show the status of a file
cvstag	sets a tag
cvsundo	undo the changes
cvsupdate	update files from the cvs
cvsversion	Creates a list of all found files in the cvs with