Welcome to my ~/bin

Length: 3 hours

Class content varies, but will include at least some of the following:

• dump, pmud: lightweight keyed databases
• getstore: copy a web page to a local file
• googles: what google searches are leading people to my web site?
• mailhold: challenge-response for incoming email
• makethumbnails: build image thumbnail pages
• mark: manage collections of files
• mypsmerge, mypstrim, mypsup2: PostScript formatting and conversion
• print: replacement printer daemon
• ticker: watch files grow
• unrecv: make email archive directories smaller
• watcher: watch a collection of web pages and report whenever one changes

Outline

I tried something new in this class. Instead of running through the slides in a pre-determined order, I made up a master menu of class sections, and had the audience members raise their hands to express interest in each section. Then I tried to do the sections more or less in order by what was considered interesting.

Master Menu

But it also works to read the slides in order, starting from slide #1, in which case what you will see is:

• Welcome to my ~/bin
• What we will do
• Introduction
• Idioms: "Topicalizer"
• Idioms: "Background"
• Tools
• awk
• addup
• f
• count
• getstore
• localtime
• tail
• ticker
• ftail
• lr
• Overengineering
  • Email
  • MH pick
  • MH mark
  • mark usage
  • mark overengineering
  • mark
  • mark: seq_read
  • mark: seq_write
  • mark: Tying
  • sortby
  • sortby Overengineering
  • sortby
  • sortby comparator
  • sortby
  • Progress Meter
  • Commands Atop Commands
• More grep annoyances
  • pgrep Usage
  • pgrep
  • pgrep: do_file
  • pgrep: output format
  • pgrep: what's next?
  • Interlude: the good old days
• Reimplementations
• find
• locate
• Building the locate database
• locate
• locate results
• lpd
• Division of Labor
• Remote printing?
• Configuration
• Brief digression: printlp
• printd
• Printing
• Scanning the spool
• Temporary errors
• Printing errors
• print
• Options
• Input
• Running in the background
• Main loop
• Spooling files
• Starting the daemon
• File conversion
• File type guessing
• Conversion
• Dead features
• Glue
• imgdiff: PBM
• imgdiff
• imgdiff example
• imgdiff
• More Mail
• forge
• attach
• Microtools
• psgrep
• unrecv
• 2005 conclusions
• runN
• 2010 conclusions
• Your conclusions?
• Thank you!

Source code

Since the point of the class is to discuss my (frequently rather crappy) source code, attendees got a handout with the complete source code under discussion.

Browse complete source code directory

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