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Shell Tools

Command-line tools for people who consider a graphical interface a character flaw.

Welcome to the department where everything starts with a prompt and ends with an error message. Every tool here was carefully tested on real terminals, where it reliably did nothing.

All man pages follow the time-honored structure of NAME, SYNOPSIS and DESCRIPTION – so you feel right at home before you notice that none of it is true.

Binders in this department

- gerp(1)
- chill(1)

gerp(1): Generally Estimated Relevant Passages – searches files for what you might have meant
chill(1): send a signal to a process, but nicely

Rights & Excuses

Tools for permissions – who's allowed to do what, who feels what, and who gets the blame in the end.

- pseudo(8)
- chmood(1)

pseudo(8): execute commands as the superuser, just for show
chmood(1): change the mood of files