miscutils

[Pádraig Brady]

It has been proposed to start the miscutils project,
to include utilities not seen as core to the system.
I.E. utilities that are of less general use, but
still worth maintaining and distributing.

dos2unix and unix2dos were the utils that prompted
the miscutils proposal.

I think miscutils could depend on coreutils,
and hence also include generally useful scripts?

To prompt discussion of possible inclusions to miscutils
I find the following scripts very useful:

http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/timeout
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/truncate
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/newest
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/fix
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/sw

Pádraig.