Re: suming utility

[Pádraig Brady]

Jim Meyering wrote:
> Pádraig Brady <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I'm not sure such a utility fits with coreutils
>> (though I have required the functionality many times myself).
>> Here are some pointers:
>>
>> http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/add
>> http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/funcpy
>> http://suso.suso.org/programs/num-utils/
> 
> Hi Pádraig,
> 
> Did anything ever come of the thread discussing
> whether to create a new package for such scripts?

Mike Frysinger originally prompted this by asking
for dos2unix/unix2dos to be included
(though iconv/recode do this in a more general way).

I asked around a few mailing lists for
what people would consider appropriate for adding to "miscutils"
and got very little interest about it, to be honest.
Also I'm always trying to minimise the interfaces people
need to know about, and so I'm wary of starting a new project.

In my opinion possible candidates for inclusion are:

dos2unix (not sure about this)
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
http://www.pixelbeat.org/scripts/add
http://git.eu.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=tree;f=text-utils;
http://git.eu.kernel.org/?p=utils/util-linux-ng/util-linux-ng.git;a=tree;f=misc-utils;

Karl, what do you think about moving the utils not specific to linux
from util-linux to "miscutils".

thanks,
Pádraig.