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Description
airtunes
Simple perl script for UNIX/Ubuntu/Debian systems to stream mp3/oggs to
an AirPort Express Airtunes server.
Requires
Justeport
(which requires
mono to run the .NET exe)
AmazonCovers
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Gets CD cover art from Amazon.com for an entire tree of 'Artist/Album/' directories.
Mostly works for me, has trouble finding some artists. Your mileage may vary.
(I use this with XMMS and the groovy CDcover plugin and love it..)
Requires Net::Amazon CPAN module as well as lynx or GET.
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asq
Mame Cabinet
front end, nice and simple and fast, using arcade controls. It runs in a
terminal window but can display a screenshot window as well.
Supports MAME as well as other emulators and various games.
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bew
A webcrawler/robot for mirroring entire web sites or web trees.
Just give it a URL and it gets everything underneath it. It can
tell you about broken links as a helpful side-effect.
If you want something more stable but don't need the recursion, see findex.
BMP.pm
A perl module (Image::BMP) that can read, modify, save (and even ASCII display)
BMP bitmap format images. Use 'perldoc BMP.pm' to read the docs.
bookmark
/
Beginning code to deal with bookmarks.
Currently reads netscape and can output KDE/Gnome menus.
You might also want to see the cumbersome
Yahooify script.
bpm
A beats-per-minute tagger. Runs through a bunch of songs and lets you
tap out return every beat (or 8 beats) for a few phrases to calculate BPM
and add it to the notes tag. Requires mpg123 and/or ogg123. One of my
first ruby scripts!
bugz
Bugzilla scraper. Can get list of bugs from a bugzilla server and output
them in a user-definable format. Useful for regression scripts and the
like, or anyone who wants command-line read access to bugzilla.
burstAnim
Converts multi-burst photos taken on a digital camera (such as my Sony DSC-L1)
into animated gifs.
CDcover.Nucleo_NLog_v102.tgz
CDcover is an XMMS plugin that shows CD Covers (see also my AmazonCovers utility).
This is a skin for CDcover that matches the "Nucleo NLog" skin. Just install
in .xmms/CDcover
colmath
A simple script that cuts columns from files (like 'cut') and allows you
to do 'math' on the results, such as adding the fields from one file and
removing them from another. (This is intersection/combination type math,
not number math - this allows, for
example, for you to list all the email addresses in one file that don't
appear in a second file).
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Contact.cgi
A CGI mailing form that can verify from email addresses without revealing
your email, as I do at my
Contact Page.
Great for making a "Contact Me" page without worrying about people collecting
your email. Also good for mailing lists and other websites that want to
replace all their mailto: links. Themeable.
Mail.cgi
A simpler CGI mailing form that doesn't verify email addresses but can only
send to a hardcoded destination. Themeable.
dateCalc
Does math with dates and times. As examples:
"dateCalc today-6d3h2s" "dateCalc 1/2/2010-12/3/1971", etc..
daveboard.tar.gz
Simple CGI bulletin board. No login required, but no editing/deletion of
messages and no threading. Good for a simple board where users are essentially
trusted. Read top of file for install.
daveFill
Simple example of a Chrome browser extension that shows a PageAction button in
the location bar if the page contains any forms, then clicking on the action
will autofill some of the form fields. My first foray into Chrome extensions
as well as into Javascript, so it may not be perfect, but it's simple and works.
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Davent
Themeable event registration system which I've developed/used for our dance
weekend events for over a decade now. Includes website creation, registration,
payment processing, door checkin and even post-event survey. Different events
are created by creating small perl files of info, allowing things like complex
date-based or # sold based pricing. The biggest weakness is in dealing with
more complex checkin issues, such as dealing with one email buying multiple
registrations and doing registration changes and trying to figure out the
correct price (some of these problems are intractable).
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DaVite
This is a web invitation system, much like evite.com or invites.yahoo.com,
but you have total control over it! Note: I am no longer developing DaVite,
as I have started to do work on
MyVite
debed
?
Finally,
sorenson plays on linux,
but unfortunately, it can't handle those streaming embedded quicktime movies.
debed can find the actual movie file for you, thanks to info posted
on
slashdot
Sometimes -fetch might not work depending on the setting of $GET and whether
the website you fetch from allows it.
dial.c
Dials a phone number using the modem. I use this to dial numbers from
my phonebook on my computer, and I use the real phone to talk. This needs
to be suid (at least on my computer) to talk to /dev/modem, so it is
written in C. I love it because (with some perl wrappers) my computer can
now call numbers from my phonebook or my work directory, or even the
yellow pages. It has some serious flakiness
though, see the comments at the top of the source, and needs to be
rewritten in perl properly. Here is the
dial_wrap
perl wrapper that I currently use. Some modems get confused if you pick
up the handset during the modem dial - so do it before or after.
diamond
Can price diamonds or find diamond qualities in a price range, using
color, clarity and carat size. Neat script. Saved me
enormous amounts of money when I spent my life savings on an
engagement ring. Based on
Rapaport
data of 11/5/1999, so you'd need to type in the new Rapaport tables
if the prices have changed much. Has interesting ability to
interpolate curves and search for points between points on a table.
Important note! The Rapaport price is what
diamonds are traded at on the diamond market - compare these prices
to a few diamond sellers to get an
idea of the
comparison. Sometimes you'll see lower prices, usually you'll see
much higher prices. I got my diamond below Rapaport, so I was
very happy
diFilm
This project has been updated and renamed - see
myfilm
dus
Recursive Disk Usage Sorter. Useful for finding large files or
groups of files in a directory or partition.
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ePerl
Embed perl in your text files! This is a very snifty tool. It
was originally written by Ralf S. Engelschall as a C program, and
I realized that it should be written in perl, which I did in a program
that is an order of magnitude smaller. (In fact, the
source for this page is eperl).
every_change
This script kicks ass for code development. Watches a file and runs
it (or something else) every time it changes. Write your code in one
window, and watch it automatically execute in another.
every_line
A little less exciting, this runs a command on every line of input it gets.
I've thought about adding the ability to pick fields from the input, but..
exec_trace.tar.gz
An LD_PRELOAD tool that can give you a log of all the exec's done by a
command and any of it's children. Useful for debugging wrappers that call
wrappers that call wrappers...
Also traces stdout/stderr file redirects as well as environment variable settings.
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File_Browser.cgi
This is my file/database browser in a cgi script. It has a similar
look as the old Windows file browser except that it can keep track
of open folders inside closed folders. You can see it in action
at the
Fringe.
find_dup
Efficiently finds all duplicate files in a file list and optionally
removes them. Now (v2.00) with massive speedups for large sets of large files.
Ran on 16Gb of 3900 files: old find_dup: 12 minutes, new find_dup: 3 minutes.
findex
Fetches an index of files. Can count through numbered URLs and
only grab specific types of files, etc.. Pretty darn useful for
scrubbing links out of pages. Like a non-recursive but more stable
version of bew. See options/usage for many ways to grab many URLs.
fix_img
Run ImageMagick 'convert' on a batch of files, this can sometimes repair
broken images. Can also be setup to easily run common convert arguments
such as geometry, normalize, etc.. Simple and very useful for image processing.
flashcache
Finds/copies the hidden/deleted flash cache files that chrome (and
firefox?) now store with the flash plugin, such as youtube and google
videos (can find other such deleted cache files as well).
UPDATE 2012/05:
Seems that youtube has changed their ways and this no longer works, but I've
updated
myfilm which should be working again. If you
have any information on how Youtube is caching their files, I'd love
to hear it.
former
Creates CGI form/registration code. You describe the form inputs, and it
creates the code for outputting, checking and correcting. It's pretty
damn useful if you ever need to write some forms. You can look at the
script directory, or else grab the
tar.gz
forge
Forge email. Can handle port 25 and sendmail method. If you use
it by itself and don't have access to an insecure port 25, then your
mail may have the "may be forged" messages. You can fix this by either
downloading the
suid version or, much safer,
downloading the additional
forge_pipe tool
which forge can use for you and then:
chown root:root forge_pipe ; chmod 4755 forge_pipe
I don't guarantee that it's safe as suid!
google-cal
A command-line interface to google calendar using ruby. It can also
add Facebook events, extracting the event code from the Facebook page.
A good starting point or example code if you want to write your own
interface to google calendar in ruby. Includes a setup wizard for handling
the authorization process as well as script installation.
hex
Simple and kicks ass. Type in decimal, octal, hex or binary, and
this outputs all the possible formats.
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html2jpg
Converts HTML pages to images (gif, jpg, png, ps, etc..).
Very kludgy, only works with certain versions of Mozilla, but I needed a
way to automate screen grabbing the HTML window out of a browser
(for my album project). Maybe it'll help you. If you have KDE, I
recommend
khtml2png
httpdave
Piece 'o cake webserver. No config files, no setup, no compilation.
Just run it in your web root directory and go to
http://localhost:3001/. Great for quick testing to see how HTML/CGI
will look (I use it alot for
album development).
Handles CGI, server-side-includes (.shtml!), cookies, mime types and POST.
Older versions of perl had two socket bugs that would
1) cause crashes when a download was canceled and 2) cause infinite loops
when trying to send a 301 message if a '/' was missing at the end of URLs
img2iphone
Transfer images to your iPhone so the show up in "Photos" and the "Camera"
applications. Can use iPod-convenience package to do the copy, otherwise
can create a local directory of iPhone images that can be transferred
manually with scp. Requires ImageMagick (convert/identify).
Can only transfer to "Camera Roll" - if anyone knows how to create
other albums, please let me know. Updated 2009年12月26日 to work with v3.0+
firmware.
Also see
vid2iphone (doesn't do transfers).
iCommand
My first iPhone application. Allows you to view the output from a
single command (without having to open a terminal window). Not terribly
exciting, but source code is included with a simple build environment,
perhaps useful as a skeleton for someone trying to write iPhone apps.
Only works on pre v2.0 firmware.
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LocationExample
Example Android project that creates a simple but complete location app.
It uses Google Play Services and Google Fused Location Services (the
latest location API) to do location updates and properly handles the
lifecycle as well as turning location lookups on and off.
lnR
Recursively links a bunch of directories with either soft (-s) or hard links.
It makes a matching directory structure and then links all the files in
each one. You can also specify a regexp to -ignore certain files. Useful
for copying a large file tree for testing without using alot of diskspace.
Can also keep a 'history' of files seen so you can remove them from the
new tree and not have them re-added if you rerun lnR.
makeKML.pm
A perl library that writes KML files for Google Maps and Google
Earth. Can do the Geocoding (latitude/longitude lookups by address)
using the Google API or OpenCageData.com. Includes a simple HTML example that embeds the
KML map using the new Google Maps Javascript API v3 (because Google
Maps no longer supports direct usage of the KML on maps.google.com).
See "
perldoc makeKML.pm" for information.
manwhich
"which" command for man pages. Finds man pages.
(Like the linux 'man -aW' or 'whereis -m' commands)
map
?
Calls up your browser showing a map given an address in various
formats. I'm pretty sure the URL it builds is wrong, but that's easy
to update. You need to have a browser that can pop open a new window
when given a URL as an argument. You can do this with old versions
of netscape with a wrapper and -remote, which kicks ass.
mzmv
Moves mp3/ogg file(s) according to their tags. Replaces the 'mp3mv' tool
I had here previously. Requires vorbiscomment for oggs and/or id3tool for mp3s
mpls
Make extended xmms playlist. Takes a list or directory tree of mp3 and ogg
files and creates a playlist sorted by artist, album, track, title.
More importantly it can write EXT metadata for xmms (Turn on "Read meta data
from playlists" in preferences) so your playlists have song name and duration
info immediately available to xmms.
Is currently butt-slow for oggs because ogginfo is butt-slow,
run it as a cron job.
mvx
Simple yet kicks ass. Moves or copies files using regular
expressions. Thanks to Andrew Allen for the idea, which I'm sure he
stole somewhere else.
myfilm
Downloads films from youtube and iFilm to your hard drive.
Converts youtube flash films to .mov if "ffmpeg" is available.
If the format changes, let me know. Works with youtube as of 2011/12.
Works with iFilm as of 2006/05.
Requires perl and "lynx" or "GET"
oggmv
Moves ogg file(s) according to their ogginfo to a proper hierarchy (like
id3mv)
ogg2mp3
Convert oggs to mp3s, converting ogginfo tags to id3 tags. Requires:
ogg123, ogginfo, id3tool and an mp3 encoder, perl and nothing else. I've
had a bug report that this might be limited to 48 minutes, I'd love
more info on this.
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perlc
Perl to C 'compiler' for hiding perl source code and creating an executable
for distribution. Also has simple support for limiting distribution.
(Not true compilation!)
perlc.zip
A variation of my perlc actually written in C by Dimitar D. Mitov
with a number of features: Can automatically detect libperl.a, does
dependency scanning, static linking, AES 256 CTR encryption using
disk device or 1st Mac address. (Not true compilation!)
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pemf
I got tired of procmail and the like, so I just wrote my own mail
filter that's easy to control and can do simple things like remove MIME.
MIME sucks.
If you can't vi it, it sucks. It can also catch SPAM,
auto respond to email, forward email, blah blah blah. Everything that
procmail can do, but it's perl, so it's
better. Perl rocks.
photoreflect
Obsolete: Download sets of images from photoreflect.com without the watermarks.
I believe this script no longer works with their current setup, let me know
if you have any success with it.
pmsh
An example of a teeny perl shell.
psh
Perl shell, almost full featured. Features: Completion, history,
aliases, environment vars, dynamic tcsh-like prompts, source,
globbing, job control,..
pulse-switch-out
Command-line tool that can select or toggle the audio output when
using ALSA/pulseaudio. Will automatically switch over any audio applications
to start using the new audio output (for example, to switch between the
line out jack and a USB audio output).
Requires: pacmd (comes with pulseaudio)
pyramid_game
Solves that pyramid peg game where you remove one peg and then jump
pegs out of the game. A 'super' solution is when the last peg lands
in the same spot where the first one was removed
Random
Signature
Generator
Consists of:
sig.pm,
mail_editor,
diffsig
Random email signature generator. Instead of using pipes or cron job
kludges, this simply puts a wrapper around the mail editor that my
mail program invokes. This chooses the new sig, and if you don't
like it, you can use diffsig to change it. I use
vim, which kicks ass, so I have this mapping
so I can change my sig with ",s":
.vimrc:
map ,s o<ESC>:.,$d<NL>Idiffsig <ESC>!!sh<NL>
I didn't write this for other people, so you'll have to read through
the code to figure out where to put all the files, sigs and whatnot.
rdiff
Remote diff (with recursion). Similar to rsync or scp, but shows diffs
between a local directory/files and the same path on a remote host.
Currently requires that the absolute paths are the same on both machines,
but it wouldn't be too difficult to make that an option.
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scurvy
Lets you easily write screenplays or scripts in a simple text format,
then converts them into the proper screenplay format. Also imports
some RTF and Final Draft formats and can convert to multiple formats
as well.
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serverizor
Converts a generic command into a tcp server so you can disconnect and reconnect to
it from the command line. This is actually pretty handy.
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spigot
Spigot is an easy way to turn on and off printing of text according to
patterns matched and other simple rules. Like a combination of 'expect'
and 'cat' and 'head'. See usage for simple examples.
splitCollageAlpha
Simple ruby script (using imageMagick rmagick gem) to split up a collage of rectangular images separated by transparent boundaries. If your boundaries aren't transparent (yet), take them to an image editor (like Gimp), select by color, make transparent (after adding a transparent layer if your image doesn't have one) and then save to an image format that supports transparencies (such as PNG). The rectangular images do
not have to be on a standard grid, every column/row can be different sizes (in terms of number and pixels).
sqlite3_hash.gem
My first published ruby gem. A persistent simple Hash backed by
sqlite3. Contains (almost) the same features/API as the Ruby 2.0.0
Hash object. Also completely tested with rspec, making it a reasonably
simple rspec tdd ruby example. Also on
github
submit
Submits URLs to various search engines. May need updating of the
URL/search engine information, but this isn't hard to figure out.
Works as of 9/6/2000.
swirl
A ridiculous wrapper that causes your background to slowly shift
between different colors. Particularly amusing to see how long
observers take to notice that it's happening. Even more amusing is
the amazing suckage of resources this does. This should be done by
modifying xsetroot source, not by the multiple execs.
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tcp_forward
Forwards a TCP connection and lets you snoop and filter the traffic being sent.
Uses the simple IO::Socket server/client examples in the perlipc manpage.
toons
I gather my daily cartoons using this script. Has various methods of
finding the cartoon - can grab Calvin & Hobbes and Dilbert. Not
written for maintainability or configurability, in fact the code is
horrible, kludgy and ugly, due to the fact that it has evolved using
many different processes, and should be rewritten. So, you probably
don't want this tool - you probably want to use
dailystrips.
Anyways, toons mostly works. Requires lynx or somesuch url fetcher.
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thumb
Just a thumbnail generator, except that it makes thumbnails the same size
while keeping aspect ratio by cropping - so the pictures aren't stretched.
This looks better than I expected - and is the code I use for the cropping
mode of 'album'
upchanged
Recursively uploads all files that have changed in a directory structure
since the last call to upchanged (using a touch file, tar and ssh)
vig
vi-grep, or emacsg (emacs-grep), pineg, etc.. etc..
This will search files (or a hierarchy of files) for regexps and bring them
up in an editor or list them. Very useful for managing source code if you
are IDE-allergic, as I am.
(As always,
If you can't vi it, it sucks )
vol
Simple script that sets my soundcard volume (using alsa or aumix) to appropriate settings depending
on the time of day (so I don't wake my neighbors). It has a mute and unmute
function, and best of all can pop the settings onto your screen using
xosd,
which is a very cool tool that makes text look like when you are programming
your TV/VCR. I call vol from a crontab to automatically turn down my music
after "quiet hours" and turn it back up in the morning, and I also can mute
from my
dial script for when I'm calling people, and I
unmute from a button on my bottom panel. Simple and snifty.
x86sim
I had some old DOS code that did some CarWars calculations and I wanted
to look at some of the code but I don't have DOS. I looked around for
a simple debug-style x86 emulator and totally failed to find anything free
that wasn't a full system emulator for 386, 486, 586, Pentium, etc..
So I wrote my own. In Perl, of course, because that's funny. It's not
done, but it does enough instructions for me to simulate the CarWars stuff
enough to figure out how it works. Yeeha. If you emulate any more x86
instructions, please send a patch. If this was ever finished it could be
a very useful student or debugging tool.
xags
A complete black-box copy of GNU xargs v4.1, written in perl. Why? Just
for kicks, and so I could fix some bugs and add an option.
I also have a
man page (
html)
for it.
This has been submitted to the
PPT
Note that the code is not derived from the GNU source.
Also, I have some snifty simple
testbench code
that helped me make sure it matched xargs in every way.
xml_dumb
A pretty simple and dumb xml parser, doesn't properly handle quotes in
attributes yet, as well as a dozen other XML features that I'm sure I
don't know about yet.
xnewmail
Simple yet kicks ass.
I use ssh and elm/mutt for my mail. This allows me to have a background job that watches
my remote ssh server for new mail and then launches a mail window when needed.
I had a previous non-remote version that I used display forwarding with called
xnm
yp
Gets yellow page listings on the command line, courtesy
Yahoo
Works as of 7/4/2000 [updated for 10/28/2002], and will continue to work as
long as the format at yp.yahoo.com doesn't change drastically.
vid2iphone
Converts videos/movies/DVDs to a movie format suitable to the iPhone.
Requires ffmpeg (with libfaac support!), possibly mplayer, and a UNIX-y system.
Most Ubuntu ships ffmpeg *w/out* libfaac support, you will need to recompile (check google).
Also see
img2iphone.
qPoll
This is a CGI polling program.
I didn't write this code! I briefly worked with it when I fixed a
security bug
in it, and the
home page
and author have since disappeared, so I have a local copy available here.
I am not the maintainer of this code! It is just here for convenience.
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xstroke
Very old but very useful in some situations. This allows you to draw "gestures" with
your mouse button that can be interpreted as commands. These days this is fairly common,
but I wrote it a million years ago when it wasn't.
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libExpr.rb
Ruby expression tree generator. Can convert expression strings such
as "(7*3)+(var/2)" into an expression object that can be very quickly
evaluated (and can handle offloading variable evaluation). Can
convert to RPN, Prefix and AST (abstract syntax tree) and has a
flexible precedence model that includes presets for Ruby precedence
or C precedence. Uses the shunting yard algorithm, but also supports
unary (such as '-a' or '+a') as well as ternary (such as 'a?b:c')
operations as well as short-circuiting logic operations (such as 'a||b').
Only AST supports all of these features, see the docs at the top of
the source for more info). Also has a testbench that generates random
expressions and verifies correct operation. It's a tar.gz, but you can
also just look at the
source and the
testbench here.
libMarshalable.rb
Ruby "Marshalable" class with simple exclusion mechanism for Marshal.dump.
Inherit this and use 'marshal_exclude' (much like 'attr_accessor') to
specify any variables that should be excluded from marshalling, so
you can avoid TypeError exceptions.
"I have an elegant script
for this, but it was too big to fit in the margins.."
- Me, MarginalHacks
Thanks to Jamie Zawinsky and the
Jargon File
for the name
