SHTOOL.TMP(1) GNU Portable Shell Tool SHTOOL.TMP(1) NAME GNU shtool - The GNU Portable Shell Tool VERSION GNU shtool 2.0.8 (18-Jul-2008) SYNOPSIS shtool [ global_options ] command [ command_options ] [ command_args ] DESCRIPTION GNU shtool is a compilation of small but very stable and portable shell scripts into a single shell tool. All ingredients were in successful use over many years in various free software projects. The compiled shtool script is intended to be used inside the source tree of those free software packages. There it can take over various (usually non-portable) tasks re- lated to the building and installation of such packages. GLOBAL OPTIONS The following global options are available for shtool. Any commands are ig- nored if one of them is present on the shtool command line. -h, --help Displays a short help page describing the usage of shtool and it's in- gredient commands in a compact way. -v, --version Displays the version number of shtool. -d, --debug Displays shell trace messages for debugging purposes. -r, --recreate Recreate the shtool script with its own individual shtoolize(1) call. COMMANDS The following commands are provided by shtool. They are all called via ""shtool" command". Any command options command_opts and arguments com- mand_args are specific to the particular command and are described in the corresponding manual page shtool_command(1). The commands are listed here sorted by topic, i.e., related commands are listed side-by-side. echo echo(1) style print command providing special expansion constructs (terminal bold mode, environment details, date) and newline control. mdate Pretty-printing of the last modification time of a file or directory. table Pretty-printing a field-separated list as a two-dimensional table. prop Displaying of a processing indication though a running ter- minal character propeller. move mv(1) style command for renaming/moving multiple files at once and allowing source files just to be deleted if con- tents did not change. install install(1) style command for installing a program, script or data file in a portable way. mkdir mkdir(1) style command providing support for automatical parent directory creation, directory permission control and smart skipping if directory already exists. mkln ln(1) style command providing automatic calculation and us- age of relative links if possible. mkshadow Creation of a shadow filesystem tree by the help of sym- bolic links. fixperm Fixing of file permissions in a source tree by cleaning up the permission bits. rotate Rotate a logfile. tarball Roll standardized distribution tarballs. subst Apply sed(1) substitution operations. platform Determines platform identification information. arx Extended archive command which can even put existing archives into an archive. slo Separate linker options by library class. scpp An additional C source file pre-processor for sharing cpp(1) code, internal variables and internal functions. version Maintain a version information file in either Text, C/C++, Perl or Python. format. path Deal with shell path variables. SEE ALSO shtoolize(1), shtool-arx(1), shtool-echo(1), shtool-fixperm(1), shtool-in- stall(1), shtool-mdate(1), shtool-mkdir(1), shtool-mkln(1), shtool-mk- shadow(1), shtool-move(1), shtool-path(1), shtool-platform(1), shtool-prop(1), shtool-rotate(1), shtool-scpp(1), shtool-slo(1), shtool-subst(1), shtool-table(1), shtool-tarball(1), shtool-version(1). HISTORY Some scripts contained in GNU shtool were already written in 1994 by Ralf S. Engelschall for use inside some private source trees. Then they evolved into more elaborated versions over the years and were used in various free software projects like ePerl, WML, iSelect, gFONT, etc. They were comple- mented with other scripts from the author which he wrote in March 1998 for the ``Apache Autoconf-style Interface'' (APACI) for Apache 1.3. In April 1999 the shtool package was created out of the accumulated master versions of the scripts and in June 1999 it entered the status of an official GNU program and this way finally joined the group of GNU autoconf, GNU automake and GNU libtool. AUTHOR Ralf S. Engelschall rse@engelschall.com www.engelschall.com 18-Jul-2008 shtool 2.0.8 SHTOOL.TMP(1)
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