Some of the tools here are useful, although mostly specific to my networks and configurations. But expect some crazy shit, too. One might discover three different implementations of an obscure protocol from 1980's or something just as useless.
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bin
contains symlinks to all scripts, for my $PATH. -
dist
has scripts dealing with this repository itself. -
obj
is where compiled binaries for C tools go, to allow sharing~/code
over NFS. -
tools
contains stuff that will, some day, be cleaned up and put in the right place.
The useful stuff:
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misc/motd
– notify about changes in /etc/motd -
music/gnome-mpris-inhibit
– disable idle-suspend in GNOME while music is playing -
music/mpris
– control MPRIS2-capable players -
net/tapchown
– change owner of tun/tap network interfaces (Linux) -
x11/dbus-name
– list, activate, wait for DBus names -
x11/gnome-inhibit
– set and list idle inhibitors in GNOME
The somewhat useful stuff:
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kerberos/kl
– a better klist -
kerberos/pklist
– list Kerberos tickets in easy-to-parse form -
kerberos/kc
– manage multiple Kerberos credential caches -
misc/envcp
– borrow the environment of another process -
net/getpaste
– dump raw text of pastebin posts -
net/mc-presence
– control Empathy IM status -
net/rdt
– recursive rDNS trace -
security/git-credential-lib
– read Git credentials from GNOME Keyring or Windows Credential Manager
The not-really-useful stuff:
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lib/python/nullroute/authorized_keys
– parseauthorized_keys
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lib/python/nullroute/sexp
– parse Ron Rivest's S-expressions -
mail/babyl2mbox
– convert BABYL mailboxes -
misc/strtool
– misc string manipulation functions -
net/nbls
– list NetBIOS names in current broadcast domain -
security/getnetrc
– search~/.netrc
file -
security/git-credential-netrc
– read Git credentials from standard~/.netrc
file -
security/update-authorized-keys
– update~/.ssh/authorized_keys
from cron -
tools/askpin
– use GPG Agent as a generic password prompter -
tools/ck
– query ConsoleKit information -
tools/sonyericsson-screencap.py
– capture screenshots from Sony-Ericsson phones -
win32/identd
– an Ident server with multi-user support -
win32/pathed
– a weird kind of %PATH% editor