littleutils Files

Welcome to littleutils 1.0.37. The littleutils are a collection of small and
simple utilities that I believe users (and script-writers in particular) will
find useful.
The basic littleutils include the following utilities:
 filedate - print the modification times of the specified files
 filehash - print MD5 and SHA1 digests and filesizes for the specified files
 filemode - print the file access permissions of the specified files
 filenode - print the inode number of the specified files
 fileown - print the uid/gid/username/groupname of the specified files
 filesize - print the file size of the specified files
 lrealpath - print the real path of the specified files
 randomize - randomize lines from one or more files or from stdin
 tempname - creates a unique temporary file for use by shell scripts
There are some simple image processing utilities:
 imagsize - figure out the image size of various image formats
 jpgcom - print any comments present in the specified JPEG image files
 pngrecolor - rewrite a PNG file with a minimal palette
 pngstrip - rewrite a PNG file with all extraneous information removed
There are some text file "cleanup" utilities:
 notabs - convert all tab characters to spaces in text files
 notrail - remove all trailing spaces characters from text files
 lreplace - perform string substitutions on text files
There are some compression optimization utilities:
 opt-gif - losslessly optimize GIF image files
 opt-jpg - losslessly optimize JPEG image files
 opt-png - losslessly optimize PNG image files
 opt-pdf - optimize PDF files using Ghostscript [extra only]
 rar2tarcat - converts .rar (or .RAR) to .tar via stdout
 recomp-jpg - recompress JPEG image files to a lower quality level
 to-gzip - converts .Z (compress) and .lzo (lzop) to .gz (gzip)
 to-bzip - converts .Z, .lzo, and .gz files to .bz2 (bzip2)
 to-7zip - converts .Z, .gz, .lzo, and .bz2 files to .7z (p7zip) [extra only]
 to-lzip - converts .Z, .gz, .lzo, and .bz2 files to .lz (lzip)
 to-lzma - converts .Z, .gz, .lzo, and .bz2 files to .lzma (lzma/lzma_alone)
 to-xz - converts .Z, .gz, .lzo, and .bz2 files to .xz (xz)
 zip2tarcat - converts .zip (or .ZIP) to .tar via stdout
There are some file maintenance utilites:
 lowercase - rename files to all-lowercase filenames
 uppercase - rename files to all-uppercase filenames
 frenum - rename/renumber files using a variety of renaming schemes
 pren - rename files using Perl regular expressions [extra only]
 repeats - searches for duplicate files in the specified directories
 wipe-free - overwrite all free space in a partition with zeros
For information on compiling and installing the littleutils, see the INSTALL
file (INSTALL is the boilerplate instruction file distributed with autoconf).
Generally, you should run:
 ./configure # for full list of options, run: ./configure --help
 make
 make install # as root or user with proper file system permissions
And optionally, if you're feeling brave, you can install utilities from the
"extra" subdirectory:
 make install-extra # as root or user with proper file system permissions
It is very important to do the "make install" step to ensure that all of the
littleutils work properly.
GNU make is required. Version 3.79.1 or later is recommended.
It should be noted that the littleutils make use of several other free software
packages. To make *full* use of the littleutils, make sure that all of these
packages are installed. [If some of the packages are not, the configure script
will cause the particular littleutils that rely on them will be skipped on
install. This will not affect the operation of the other littleutils.] Most
of these should already be present on your system, but if not, here is where
source code and binaries can be found:
 bash: http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
 dash: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/dash/
 perl: http://www.perl.com/
 python: http://www.python.org/
 file: ftp://ftp.astron.com/pub/file/
 gifsicle: http://www.lcdf.org/gifsicle/
 jpegtran: http://www.ijg.org/
 libpng: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/libpng.html
 pngcrush: http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngcrush/
 bzip2: http://www.bzip.org/
 gzip: http://www.gzip.org/
 lzip: http://www.nongnu.org/lzip/lzip.html
 lzma_alone: http://www.7-zip.org/sdk.html (lzma_alone is buried in the SDK)
 lzop: http://www.lzop.org/
 xz,lzma: http://tukaani.org/xz/
 7z,7za,7zr: http://sourceforge.net/projects/p7zip/
Enjoy!
Brian Lindholm