Tom's Script Archive

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Welcome to my script archive. Here are a few little programs that I thought might come in handy for others wanting to learn Perl. You may go look at the alphabetical listing or grouped by category.

Make sure you poke around inside the listed directories.

Tom Christiansen

Listing by Category

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