Jim Meyering wrote: > Pádraig Brady <P@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I'm not sure such a utility fits with coreutils >> (though I have required the functionality many times myself). >> Here are some pointers: >> >> http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/add >> http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/funcpy >> http://suso.suso.org/programs/num-utils/ > > Hi Pádraig, > > Did anything ever come of the thread discussing > whether to create a new package for such scripts? Mike Frysinger originally prompted this by asking for dos2unix/unix2dos to be included (though iconv/recode do this in a more general way). I asked around a few mailing lists for what people would consider appropriate for adding to "miscutils" and got very little interest about it, to be honest. Also I'm always trying to minimise the interfaces people need to know about, and so I'm wary of starting a new project. In my opinion possible candidates for inclusion are: dos2unix (not sure about this) http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/timeout http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/truncate http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/newest http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/fix http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/sw http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/add http://git.eu.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=tree;f=text-utils; http://git.eu.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=tree;f=misc-utils; Karl, what do you think about moving the utils not specific to linux from util-linux to "miscutils". thanks, Pádraig. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
