Unix Shell Script Software

povmake is a shell-script that acts as a simple front-end to the POV-ray raytracer. It allows you to trace a poyray file with four different sizes and four different quality settings. It produces minimal output, but saves the information from povray in a logfile. The table below gives an...

envelope is a shell-script with which you can print an address on a 11x22 cm envelope. envelope is written for a Laserjet 5L printer, using Ghostscript. It is a nice example of using a shell-script to output a (postscript) file. This can probably be used on other printers, if you hack at it a...

pslj shell-script is used to print Postscript files to a LaserJet 5L printer. If you are using another kind of printer, you can easily adapt this script by changing the DEVICE paramater to GhostScript (and possibly the resolution). You can reference this script in your /etc/printcap file, like...


Platforms: *nix

THC-Probe is the ultimate host scanner compilation for Linux, featuring nmap, snmpscan, netbios auditing tool and super-cool vh shell script. INSTALL: just run "make install". Everything will be installed in /usr/local RUN: just run "netprobe" and see the options. Every host scanned will be...


Platforms: *nix

freshupdate is a shell script that, when used with xtail or equivalent, will send the freshmeat.net headlines to your root window. It is meant to be run hourly via cron..


Platforms: *nix

An AppleScript GUI shell script wrapper built in Apples Xcode and Interface Builder, released under the terms of the GPL. It provides easy access to a subset of the features available in the Open Source, command-line driven Nikto web security scanner, installed along with the MacNikto...


Platforms: Mac

A shell script which determines by brute force the best compression format (bzip2, gzip, Z, zip, etc.) and which compression level to use in order to archive a file the smallest possible.


Platforms: Mac, BSD, Linux

chainssh is a shell script to smplify the ssh login via multiple sshgateways/firewallgateaways. e.g. connect from homehost via sshgateway to a clusternode with one command.


Platforms: Mac, BSD, Solaris, Linux

ShellEd is a superb shell script editor for Eclipse. The benefits of this plugin are the integration of man page information for content assist/hover help and the ability to run your project's shell scripts without leaving Eclipse. Check it out!


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

snap2 is a powerful rsync-based backup program (shell script) for Linux desktop PCs. It has a user-friendly GUI. It creates automatically-rotating 'snapshot' backups, or a mirror backup. It can also be run non-interactively, via cron.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, Linux

Motion JWii is a shell script command that can convert most video files into the Motion JPEG format that the Wii uses, with QuickTime Pro. These videos can then be played on the Wii Photo Channel. What's new in this version: Two more available audio codecs for ffmpeg users, one for advanced...


Platforms: Mac

Performance monitoring via telnet and ftp script shows how to increase the performance for a data gathering shell script with telnetlib.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, Python, BSD Solaris

CoolibreeCMS is a minimal CMS platform for creating small blogs or websites. It although doesn't use a database to store data keeps all informations into a flat file.An API for building a customized template are available for usersda to adapt their website.Coolibree CMS is a free light and...


Platforms: PHP

Open files with Panic, Inc.'s Coda http://www.panic.com/coda/ from the command line.


Platforms: Mac

MuninLite is a single Bourne Shell script that implements the Munin protocoll as well as some Linux specific plugins. The motivation for developing MuninLite was to provide a simple Munin Node, using inetd on systems without a full featured Perl.


Platforms: *nix

Sparseimage Compactor is an AppleScript application (applet/droplet) to run the UNIX shell script 'hdiutil compact' to compress sparse disk images. If you don't know what a sparse disk image is, then you likely don't need this application yet. If you want to learn more, please launch the Disk...


Platforms: Mac

kcWebTelnet is a PHP Script that allows users to run Unix or Linux shell commands where TELNET is not provided from their web broswer.


Platforms: Windows, Mac, *nix, PHP, BSD Solaris

Tcsh is an enhanced, but completely compatible version of the Berkeley UNIX C shell (csh). The project is a command language interpreter usable both as an interactive login shell and a shell script command processor. It includes a command-line editor, programmable word completion, spelling...


Platforms: *nix

dispatch is a multi-tier architecture object-oriented framework that allows access to methods and variables at the command line and in shell scripts or via a GUI. The project is in an early stage and you will probably not be able to compile it easily or use it for significant work. There are...


Platforms: *nix

Nhopkg is a lightweight and powerfull package manager system for unix like operating systems. Nhopkg can install, remove, update, search and manage software packages (.nho). Nhopkg is currently written in Bash Shell Script, but it will be written in Python in the next version. Nhopkg aims to be...


Platforms: *nix