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- tgz: this is the first one I coded some years ago. On that days, the tar command didn't
include support for compressed files (-z option, from 'man tar'); at least it didn't on IRIX
5.3 through 6.5.x (SGI).
This tool, as you guessed, can be used to create, list and extract contents from a .tar.gz or
.tgz file. It's still shorter than typing "tar -ztvf whatever.tgz" :-)
- tbz: years later, as the bzip2 utility appeared, I made a tgz-sequel to handle the
.tar.bz2 or .tbz2 files and this tool was born. Its use is very similar to tgz.
- setbackground: this tool was coded before any window manager, such as 4DWm (IRIX),
allowed to set any picture in any format as background/wallpaper.
This can be achieved passing some parameters to the image viewer 'xv'; and that's what's this
tool is all about.
- mp3towav: eaving legal issues aside, when I downloaded one or some audio files in MP3
format and I wanted to burn them into a CD, I should use the WAVE format, for example.
There's a nice tool for UNIX/Linux called mpg123 by Michael Hipp that, from version 0.59r,
converts MP3 to WAV. Because there are some parameters I had to enter for the conversion
to work, I did this util to make it easier/faster, and also added some features for batch
processing, etc.
- mmove: from time to time I needed to change the files' extensions. That was not a problem
when they where 2 or 3 files but some other times I found up to 200 files with the wrong
extension; for example: .mpe instead of .mp3. In fact, 'mmove' stands for 'multiple move'.
Beware of the existance of another 'mmove', which is a command from the Mtools used to move
or rename an MS-DOS file or subdirectory (pasted from the 'man mmove'-headers :-) ).
- space2underscore: sometines I stumbled with filenames containing whitespaces. Some scripts of mine
already contained a little function to convert spaces into underscores but I thought that making it a separate
tool would be useful as well. Filenames such as "my file number one.ext" will turn into "my_file_number_one.ext".
- zombiewatchdog: every time in a while one or more zombie/defunct processes appeared on my systems
after a long uptime. They didn't represent a big menace as I could live along with them for, say, a week.
I knew that it was a certain application causing those zombies, so I made this little script to watch for
them and kill them when needed, either automatically or manually; both functions can be done passing the
right option to the script. The best way to run it is putting it on a user's crontab with enough
priviledges to kill processes.
Installation Note:
To avoid conflicts with other utils, the MLK-Tools will all install with the mlk-prefix, so you will
end up with, for example: mlkmmove, mlktbz, mlkmp3towav, etc.
The MLK-Tools are provided with an installer, also developed in Ksh, so you can put them whereever
you want in your system.
Dependencies:
The MLK Tools require the following extra commands/utils to be installed on your system:
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