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Aardvark Shell Utils 1.0


Aardvark Shell Utils Aardvark Shell Utils - Collection of 3 utilities designed to aid the user when working with shell scripts, or from the terminal

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Mac OS X
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Company Laffey Computer Imaging
Version 1.0
Post Date June 05, 2009
License GPL
File Size 73 KB
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Aardvark Shell Utils 1.0


Aardvark Shell Utils - Collection of 3 utilities designed to aid the user when working with shell scripts, or from the terminal
The Aardvark Shell Utils is a collection of 3 (currently) utilities designed to aid the user when working with shell scripts, or from the shell command line.

All three accept their input on the command line, or from standard input, and thus they can be piped (|) with other commands. All commands contained in this package come with their own man page.

The Aardvark Shell Utils collection includes the three utilities below:
  • realpath(1): Realpath is an implementation of the realpath(3) function for returning the canonicalized absolute pathname of an input path.
  • filebase(1): Filebase returns the base portion of a filename, that is the filename with its extension (e.g. .txt) removed. It works by returning everything preceeding the last period in the input string. The period itself is not returned.
  • fileext(1): Fileext returns the extension portion of a filename (e.g. txt). It works by returning everything following the last period in the input string. The period itself is not returned.

    Note: All command names are lowercase. Capitals are used above only for emphasis or English clarity.