Ports Search

This is a set of three simple tools written in sh(1) for generating single patches for use in Ports. This set is ideal for creating a new patch when it is inconvenient or undesirable to use the "make makepatch" utility. The first tool is "dupe" which is a quick copy utility. The second tool is "genpatch" which creates patches in the standards diff format and using the standard file name conventions. The last tool is "portfix" which runs "dupe", an editor of choice, and "genpatch" serially as a macro as a convenient and quick way to create port patches. Please see the dupe, genpatch, and portfix man pages for details.

This is RATS, a rough auditing tool for security, developed by Secure Software Solutions. It is a tool for scanning source code (C, C++, Perl, and Python) and flagging common security related programming errors such as buffer overflows and TOCTOU (Time Of Check, Time Of Use) race conditions. As its name implies, the tool performs only a rough analysis of source code. It will not find every error and will also find things that are not errors. Manual inspection of your code is still necessary, but greatly aided with this tool.

libcpuid is a small C library for x86 CPU detection and feature extraction. Using it, you can: - Get the processor vendor, model, brand string, code name, etc. - Get information about CPU features such as: number of cores or logical CPUs, cache sizes, CPU clock, etc. - Check if the processor implements a specific instruction set such as SSE2 or 3DNow! - Execute the CPUID and RDTSC instructions in a portable way - And have this all in your commercial application, without getting into trouble, due to permissive license Reference utility (rather advanced and useful on its own) is also provided.

most is a pager (like less) that displays, one windowful at a time, the contents of a file on a terminal. It pauses after each windowful and prints the following on the window status line: the screen, the file name, current line number, and the percentage of the file so far displayed. In addition to displaying ordinary text files, most can also display binary files as well as files with arbitrary ascii characters. As an option, autosensing of binary files can be disabled (via the -k option), thereby allowing one to browse files encoded in a different language (Japanese, Korean, Chinese, etc). FTP: ftp://ftp.jedsoft.org/pub/davis/most

Monitor::Simple allows simple monitoring of applications and services of your IT infrastructure. There are many such tools, some of them very complex and sophisticated. For example, one widely used is Nagios (http://www.nagios.org/). The Monitor::Simple does not aim, as its name indicates, for all features provided by those tools. It allows, however, to check whether your applications and services are running correctly. Its simple command-line interface can be used in cron jobs and reports can be viewed as a single HTML or text page.

tdir is Yet Another Way To Display Directory Listings. Output is in columnar format with sub-directories listed first, and then a listing of the files ordered by their ending "extension" - typically the characters following the rightmost '.' in the file name (though this can be changed on the command line). tdir supports recursive directory examination. Total output width as well as column width can be set on the command line and tdir will autoformat accordingly. tdir is written in 'python' and requires a reasonably current version of the 'python' environment to be present on the system.

zfSnap is a simple sh script for creating ZFS snapshots. When called from cron rolling snapshots can be created and deleted automatically. The main advantage of zfSnap is that it is written in 100% pure /bin/sh, does not require any additional software to run, and is simple to use. zfSnap keeps all information about snapshot in snapshot name. zfs snapshot names are in form: Timestamp--TTL where timestamp is date and time of snapshot creation and TTL is Time To Live in human readable form.

Instead of reading input in lines as sed, bbe reads arbitrary blocks from an input stream and performs byte-related transformations on found blocks. Blocks can be defined using start/stop strings, stream offset and block length, or a combination. Basic editing commands include delete, replace, search/replace, binary operations (and, or, etc.), append, and bcd/ASCII conversion. For examining the input stream, it contains some grep-like features like printing the input file name, stream offset, and block number of found blocks. Block contents can also be printed in different formats like hex, octal, ASCII, and binary.

Msort sorts files in sophisticated ways. Records may be fixed size, newline-separated blocks, or terminated by any specified character. Key fields may be selected by position, tag, or character range. For each key, distinct exclusions, multigraphs, substitutions, and a sort order may be defined or locale collation rules used. Comparisons may be lexicographic, numeric, numeric string, hybrid, random, by string length, angle, date, time, month name, or ISO8601 timestamp. Keys may be reversed so as to generate reverse dictionaries. Optional keys are supported. Unicode is supported, including full case-folding. Msort itself has a somewhat complex command line interface, but may be driven by an optional GUI.

Sphinx is a full-text search engine, distributed under GPL version 2. Commercial license is also available for embedded use. Generally, it's a standalone search engine, meant to provide fast, size-efficient and relevant fulltext search functions to other applications. Sphinx was specially designed to integrate well with SQL databases and scripting languages. Currently built-in data sources support fetching data either via direct connection to MySQL, or from an XML pipe. As for the name, Sphinx is an acronym which is officially decoded as SQL Phrase Index.