This is an archive of things I have written that may be useful to others. I generally build everything on Linux, SunOS 4.x and Irix 5.x, so we have some degree of portability. Many of them also work under windows nt (and 9x) when using the Cygnus gcc tools.

If you like any of the tools you find here, please send me a note (tony.aiuto@gmail.com). I'll put you on the mailing list for upgrades. Don't worry, you won't get more than a few a year. I also ask one favor - leave a link to my site on one of yours. It does not even have to be visible, just so that it's picked up by search engines.

Unless otherwise stated, all program source code copyright © 1982-2007 Tony Aiuto.

Unless otherwise stated, everything is under a BSD style license. Use it any way you see fit; keep my name in to code; I'm not responsible if you shoot your foot.

• treeprune - diff a folder tree against another and prune out files which are the same
  I find this useful to sort out folder trees which appear identical, but are not. This happens when people make backups, revisions and branches by copying trees rather than using version contol systems.
• engarde2html - convert Engarde fencing data to HTML
  engarde2html reads an Engarde fencing competition folder and generates HTML output. It's open source and relatively easy to customize for the needs of your club.
• webfetch - command line HTTP tool to retreive files from web sites Updated - December 8, 2004 - release 5.4.2
  5.4 - adds HTTPS support Can send cookies, basic authentication, and other HTTP header information. Can issue POST and DELETE commands as well. Can spoof many types of browsers (for testing dynamic web sites). HTTP library can be used incorporated into other software. It provides excellent examples of how the HTTP works and how to use openssl in a network application.
  An alternative to wget and (BSD) fetch).
• Enhanced RSH/SSH patch to CVS - a patch to CVS 1.12 which adds the ability to set the remote shell program (and it's options) used with the :ext: protocol. This is to make it easy to specify distinct SSH private keys for each server you connect to.
• addpath - a little tool to make building my PATH in .cshrc/.bashrc files easier
  It can be used for buildings scripts which work under both Unix and Windows (providing you have a shell rather than cmd.exe)
• backup - a replacement for the BSD dump(8) and restore(8) commands - it's really not ready for anyone to use right now
• bigcal - a simple non-GUI calendar tool
  Prints to screen, HTML or postscript.
• bingogen - a bingo card generator for making "meeting bingo" cards.
  Meeting Bingo is a lot of fun if Dilbert seems more like a documentary than a cartoon.
• clockcheck - show clock diffs or sync with other machines
  The low-resource usage replacement for xntp.
• consolenotes - play notes on the internal speaker of a PC running Linux
  Useful for making headless servers play a little tune just before final shutdown, so you know it's safe to power down.
• filestat - a more useful version of the stat(1) command
  Prints any inode information about a file in a user specified format. Handy for writing shell scripts that have to rename files based on their creation times.
• getlinks - extract hrefs from an HTML document
• logrotate 3.6 - unofficial release Adds datestamp option which allows you to specify a rename pattern based on the create/modification time of the log file. This allows rotation to unique names without reusing log file names. This will probably never make it back to the RedHat distro because it required major refactoring just so the code was somewhat readable. They didn't want to bless the refactoring so they rejected it and I don't have the time to pursue it.
• palmtools - Palm library, file dumper and Tcl integration.
  A library for reading Palm data files. Also contains a sample file dumper and integration with Tcl. The Tcl components can be used as a loadable module or as a standalone tool.
• rand - pull a random line from a file or generate a random number
• recol - tiny tool for reformating columnar input
  For those times when you have to reformat card image data into something else. You could do the same with cut and/or awk, but it would be a little less convenient.
• rtest - a small regression test runner for command line tools.
  I use it for building regressions tests of almost anything produces output. It's not JUnit, but you can't really use JUnit on C programs easily, can you.
• stype - simulate keyboard input on most Unixes
  Handy for writing shell scripts where input to some tool in the scipt must come from the keyboard. Also useful for crocking your friends.
• libaiuto - subroutines needed by other tools