Tom's Script Archive

Make sure you poke around inside the listed directories.

Tom Christiansen

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admin

ckaddr dfgripe hwo keepalive man.shar.gz manpath mvids ndf pgrep psgrep pt pt.shar.gz rename rep rmmq seced slipup sox ssl statmon straycats suidscript tgent whenon whenon.dir/ zap

benchmark

chkfork

cgi

MxScreen bados mort-cgi pizza.shoppe

csh

csh/ gent.csh

demo

prime-fork prime-thread

devel

igrep pmdesc ptags timeouts/ toms.exrc trail vi-db.shar whperl

doc

doc/ html-hacking.html latro.html ranquiz

files

cptimes dutree-new dutree-old flinx lst

filter

b64 boxit chop now permute randcap randline slowcat sortbylast sortbylen sortsig superquote tcgrep tct tee/ tfiles words

inet

catsock daytime expn fwdport net/ rweb weather

mail

cfoq getalias msort/ plum sigrand

misc

mort

mtg

MxScreen angelgrep mxperl

news

cfoq clip cliprc

talk

ADVLABS/ CS-Talk/ perlstyle-talk

text

dupwords lexmorph pull_quotes

tk

netcomplain.perltk

unknown

cgi/ html-tools/ vrfy

www

amarank churl ggh htdecom htitle html-hacking.html latro latro.html mkscrindex qxurl reltree striphtml surl webmirror xurl

Listings by Name

• ADVLABS/: Exercise solutions from an advanced perl course I taught long ago.
• CS-Talk/: Presentation notes and copious source examples for a compsci talk at CU-Boulder. Many data structure and module examples.
• MxScreen: Front end for the MoxPerl Query Database
• amarank: Use LWP to rank Amazon.COM books
• angelgrep: Back end for the MTG rules grepper
• b64: Base64 to ASCII decode
• bados: Redirect to jargon file based on browser
• boxit: surround ever paragraph of input with a gaudy quote box
• catsock: old code to drain a socket
• cfoq: heuristically determine whether a message has too many quotes lines
• cgi/: [unknown]
• chkfork: check your system's fork performance
• chop: discard parts of line that would make things wrap
• churl: check another URL's links for validity
• ckaddr: backend for ftp to check mail address validity
• clip: lwall+tchrist program for kibo-izing the news spool
• cliprc: config file for the clip program
• cptimes: copy timestamp from one file to others
• csh/: csh-related matter
• daytime: old socket code to fetch data from some machine's daytime port
• dfgripe: check for "full" disks, mailing top users about the problem
• doc/: old troff documentation about some of these scripts
• dupwords: identify duplicate adjacent words in input text paragraphs
• dutree-new: render du output indented by parent (updated and clear)
• dutree-old: render du output indented by parent (old and magical)
• expn: convince smtp to divulge an alias expansion
• flinx: find all the symbolic links and show where they point
• fwdport: generic forwarding proxy daemon
• gent.csh: old sed script to fetch and format a termcap entry
• getalias: expand sendmail aliases, recursively
• ggh: grep in netscape's history database
• htdecom: ugly regex-based html comment stripper
• htitle: use LWP to fetch a document's title
• html-hacking.html: description of www tools
• html-tools/: [unknown]
• hwo: old who rewrite that finds utmp-inhibited xterms
• igrep: grep recursively in #includes
• keepalive: keep slip connection running
• latro: test a site for the evil perl.exe bug
• latro.html: describe latro
• lexmorph: change one word to another, letter by letter
• lst: depth-first recursive directory lister
• man.shar.gz: my ancient man programs in perl
• manpath: compute manpatch dynamically
• mkscrindex: build this script index dynamically
• mort: mortage payment calculator
• mort-cgi: front end for mortgate calculator
• msort/: three filters for sorting mail files
• mvids: remap user and group owners for updating passwd files
• mxperl: backend server for MoxPerl query database
• ndf: df rewrite
• net/: directory of old internet scripts
• netcomplain.perltk: ancient demo of perltk
• now: run cal thrice to show last month, this month, next month
• perlstyle-talk: script and materials for perlstyle presentation
• permute: show all permutations on each input line's words
• pgrep: grep for an executable by name in your path
• pizza.shoppe: old multistage pizza order form
• plum: perl-extensible graphical front-end for MH
• pmdesc: list all installed perl modules
• prime-fork: compute primes using processes
• prime-thread: compute primes using threads
• psgrep: apply perl expressions as query on ps output
• pt: render ps output indented by parent
• pt.shar.gz: package to build pt for various systems
• ptags: build perl tags file for vi
• pull_quotes: old code to pull out nested constructs in text
• qxurl: fast regex-based approach to finding links
• randcap: randomly capitalize input
• randline: select a random line from input, slowly
• ranquiz: perl wizards quiz
• reltree: render absolute urls in links relative
• rename: rename a bunch of files based on a rule
• rep: repeated run a program, using curses to show updates
• rmmq: remove an entry from the sendmail queue
• rweb: front end for webster server
• seced: edit a file safely while chrooted
• sigrand: choose a random signature line
• slipup: larry's old slip program
• slowcat: show a file s l o w l y
• sortbylast: sort input based on last field
• sortbylen: sort input based on length of line
• sortsig: sort signatures
• sox: merge lsof and netstat outputs
• ssl: summarize syslog activity
• statmon: check hosts for uptime and clock drift
• straycats: find orphaned catpages
• striphtml: remove html markup
• suidscript: make setuid wrapper for script
• superquote: run boxit on mail message for quoting
• surl: sort link list by most recently modified
• tcgrep: grep rewrite and extension
• tct: tee rewrite and extension
• tee/: two versions of tee rewrite
• tfiles: identify plain textfiles
• tgent: fetch and format a termcap entry
• timeouts/: several timeout examples
• toms.exrc: my vi config file
• trail: tail -f rewrite and enhancement
• vi-db.shar: old system for using vi and perl db
• vrfy: [unknown]
• weather: fetch weather info from server (not mine)
• webmirror: yet another web mirroring script (not mine)
• whenon: check lastlog for when a user was here
• whenon.dir/: directory with several whenon versions
• whperl: find out path to a module you're using
• words: columnate input
• xurl: extract links from document
• zap: kill processes based on various criteria