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PROGRAM:

NAME

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 related to the building and installation of such packages.

GLOBAL OPTIONS

The following global options are available for shtool. Any commands are ignored 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 ingredient 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 command_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 terminal character
propeller.

move mv(1) style command for renaming/moving multiple files at once and
allowing source files just to be deleted if contents 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 usage of relative
links if possible.

mkshadow Creation of a shadow filesystem tree by the help of symbolic 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.

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