README.md

Code Used by Customers of John Scott

Install dependencies

google golang, expected in /usr/local/go

macosx: dmg installer on golang.org
linux: tar install in /usr/local/go

perl package XML::Parser

debian: apt-get libxml-parser-perl (linux)
macosx: port install  port install p5-xml-parser

perl package postgres DBI driver

macosx: port install p5-dbd-pg
debian: apt-get install libdbd-pg-perl

Tarballable Packages

rasql

REST api built by parsing structured comments in PostgreSQL SQL files

pgsnap

Snapshot postgresql database with pg_dump and notify the hordes

furl

Fault a failed URL fetch and alert the hordes on fault|clear state change.

logroll

Roll log files via Day of Week or Sample Rate, written in go.

www

Various tools used for apache/ngix web development.

Standalone Shell Scripts

pg2pg

Upgrade a postgresql database via pg_upgrade or pg_dump

flatx

Flatten XML for simple extraction with shell scripts.

hexdump

C function to format like command line tool 'hexdump -C'

isjson

Is input valid json, based up python lib json.tool

launchd-log

Trivial wrapper script called by mac launchd to do decent logging

pdf-merge

Merge pdf files calling java classes in Apache pdfbox.

ssh-host

SSH to host, where host name is derived from symbolic link to ssh-host.

rsunk

Push files to rsync.net public service and notify hordes.

rsync-fs

rsync a whole file system, notify hordes.

overwrite

Safely overwrite files (based on rob & bwk script).

strswap

Swap string in files (based on rob & bwk script).

strip-cr

String dos style carriage return/newline sequences

xtitle

Set title of XTerm session.

svn-ignore

Set "ignore" properties of subversion repo.

svn-commit-notify

Notify hordes of svn commits, called from post-commit script in dir hooks/

Standalone C Programs

file-stale-mtime.c

Is a file "stale" based upon recent modifications?

idiff.c

Simple interactive diff (based on rob & bwk code)

istext.c

Is a file ascii text?

halloc.c

Malloc front end where freeing a parent also frees the kids.

fork-me.c

Measure sequential fork/exec of a program

Note:

Consider a tester script for gnu dependencies.  Also, setting
shell tracing via an environment variable might be nice.

Create script is-dir-empty