From: joeyh Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 03:25:58 +0000 (+0000) Subject: * README updates based on user feedback. X-Git-Tag: 0.5~2 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1530f8ec01fe7e688946203ec19624e1609c221c;p=moreutils * README updates based on user feedback. --- diff --git a/README b/README index 243a080..2aeaa88 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -23,32 +23,38 @@ Your suggestions of additional tools to add to this collection are apprecitated. Here are some that are under consideration but have not yet been included, I also welcome feedback on which of these to include. +_ + Matt Taggart suggests that and(1) and not(1) be integrated into one + utility taking a page from test(1)/[. It would work like this: + + _ file1 and file2 + _ file1 not file2 + + Where any file can be "-" for stdin. Could also add "or", "xor", + etc to this. This makes it much clearer which file is on which side + of the boolean expression. + + If it's called "_" that should probably be an alias for something + longer, such as lcombine. What exactly to call it is the unresolved + question -- is "_" something moreutils can justify taking for this? + mime determines the mime type of a file using the gnome mine database (More useful than file(1) in many cases but would add a lot of gnome libraries to the package's dependency chain.) -ifcfg - find ip address etc easily without complex grepping in ifconfig - http://edgard.dyn.fdn.fr/developpements/ifcfg.shtml - (Tarball link 404 when last checked.) - z makes another program understand compressed files ex: z zxgv file.bmp.gz - (Waiting for copyright from Chung-chieh Shan) (Dare I take the "z" name?) tmp puts stdin into a temp file and passes it to the specified program ex: zcat file.bmp.gz | tmp zxgv - (Waiting for copyright from Chung-chieh Shan) add adds up numbers from stdin - (Waiting for copyright from Chung-chieh Shan) - -- Joey Hess diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 2c84fca..e563801 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ moreutils (0.5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * Cleaned up ifdata's behavior when asked to print info for nonexistant devices. Still needs improvement. * Indentation improvements. + * README updates based on user feedback. -- Joey Hess Tue, 7 Mar 2006 21:54:45 -0500