tools's Introduction

This is a collection of command-line tools I wrote to make various repetitive tasks more convenient. They will typically take input from standard input and will output to standard output. I make an effort to not use external libraries so that compilation requires the least possible dependencies. Note that some other tools/scripts I write for other projects use these tools and assume they can be found in your PATH.

numlist: Perform various basic tasks on a list of numbers
- The list of numbers must be passed in via standard input
- Run it without arguments to see the usage message, which contains a list of functions
- The list of numbers can be integers or decimals: the tool handles both
- The numbers must be delimited by whitespace
- If your numbers are not delimited by whitespace, you can use tr to fix your list. For example:
```
echo "1,2,3,4,5" | tr ',' ' ' | numlist -sum
```
touchall.sh: Recursively touch all files in current directory (and subdirectories)
- Run it without arguments

INSTALLATION

Clone the GitHub repository wherever you want to install the tools. For example, if I wanted to install the collection into a directory ~/bin:
```
cd ~/bin
git clone https://github.com/niemasd/tools.git
```
Compile the tools with make (the Makefile should compile all of the tools automatically). To continue the previous example:
```
cd ~/bin/tools
make
```
OPTIONAL: Other tools/scripts I write for other projects may expect these tools to be found in your PATH, so I would suggest adding the directory to your PATH variable. To continue the previous example, if I were to add it to my .profile:
```
echo "PATH=~/bin/tools:$PATH" >> ~/.profile
```

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