On Tuesday 24 July 2007, Karel Zak wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:08:28AM +0100, Pádraig Brady wrote: > > 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". > > No problem move it to an actively maintained project, although I'm in > doubt that any non-linux system will use it -- the utils from > util-linux/{misc-utils,text-utils} are nothing unique. It's based on > old Berkeley Unix stuff. it'd get used in Gentoo on non Linux systems ... utilities like "cal", "more" (actually i had a BSD guy complain to me about this one already), "mcookie", and "script" ... -mike
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