Write it, cut it, paste it, save it, Load it, check it, quick rewrite it, Drag it, drop it, zip, unzip it
For those who are using the windows platform, there is a set of useful command line utilities (CUI = Commandline User Interface) that were ported from GNU Linux. You get a bunch of tools to handle text and files. It ships with NC which is seen as malicious by some virus checkers, I suggest you better educate yourself. Can be disabled in the installer anyway because all this comes with a useful installer / uninstaller. I thought it’s nice to share:
Download CUI-utils Revision 2 (MD5: FDABAC9479EE9DF6785689AFEF7E3C63)
Wget for Windows is not part of the package because most users should already have it on their box, right?
CUI-Utils (rev 2) Screenshots
Included Tools
cat - Concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output. dd - Copy a file, converting and formatting according to the operands. grep - Search for PATTERN in each FILE or standard input. head - Print the first 10 lines of each FILE to standard output. iconv - Handle and convert text encodings. md5sum - Print or check MD5 (128-bit) checksums. nc - Read and write data across network using TCP/IP. od - Write an unambiguous representation, octal bytes by default. printf - FORMAT controls the output as in C printf. sdiff - Side-by-side merge of file differences. sed - Regex on the commandline. seq - Print numbers from FIRST to LAST, in steps of INCREMENT. sort - Write sorted concatenation of all FILE(s) to standard output. [1] split - Output fixed-size pieces of INPUT to PREFIXaa, PREFIXab, ... . stat - Display file or file system status. tail - Print the last 10 lines of each FILE to standard output. touch - Update the FILE access and modification times to the current time. tr - Translate, squeeze, and/or delete characters from standard input. uniq - Discard all but one of successive identical lines from INPUT. wc - Print newline, word, and byte counts for each FILE. gclip - Get clipboard text from stdin. pclip - put clipboard text to stdout bzip2 - A block-sorting file compressor. Incl. bzip2recover. gzip - Compress or uncompress FILEs.
