Alan's Perl Toys
- TorrentSniff - Return information on a
BitTorrent torrent.
- mymovies - Return a list of your IMDB votes
- rpmfu - Automatically download RPM updates
- mailtools - Generate reports based on mbox
files
- IELinker - Convert Internet Explorer Favorites to Netscape Bookmarks
- FileFlinger - Syncronize my local netscape
bookmarks and my remote links page
- Q2T - Convert Quoter files to Visual C++ Tip of the
Day
- Whatsup - Summarize contents of incoming
mailboxes
mymovies
Return a list of your IMDB votes
Some friends and I got to talking about all of the movies
we've seen. After a while we began comparing sheer quantity of
movies seen. Since I'd been rating movies I've seen on the Internet Movie Database, it wasn't
hard to generate such a list. However, my friends wanted copies
of my list to start theirs. I was also interested in keeping a
local copy of my list. Thus, mymovies was born. In it's default
mode, it will use your Netscape cookie file to download your
movie list and output it in plain text.
Source
rpmfu
Automatically download RPM updates
I got sick of checking for updated RPMs for my RedHat based system.
Feed this handy script a list of mirror sites and it will download the
necessary RPMS.
Source
mailtools
Generate reports based on mbox files
Written for very important reasons that I immediately forgot upon
completion. I suspect it was one of those "because it's there" kinda
things. mailtools generates reports based on mbox files. mailthread
generates a threaded report of the subject lines, muasurvey reports on the
Mail User Agents used.
Source (tarball)
IELinker
Convert Internet Explorer Favorites to Netscape Bookmarks
I had been using Internet Explorer. I don't really like it, but devloping
software under Visual Studio really requires an up to date IE to use the
help. And since I always had an up to date IE, it was tempting to use IE.
I recently got fed up with my system hanging or crashing when IE went on
the fritz, and switched back to Netscape. But I was left with the mess of
bookmarks (Favorites on IE). Alot of bookmarks. And I wanted them in
Netscape. So, I whipped together this little perl program, which reads the
IE mess and spews out a netscape style file to insert.
This code probably makes mistakes, and isn't solid by any definition. But
it works.
The source code
FileFlinger
Syncronize my local netscape bookmarks and my remote links page
My links page represents an up to date
list of the links on my "work" machine at any given moment. These scripts
facilitate this little mess:
- fling.pl - Sends the bookmarks from the source
machine to the destination. Requires the Mail::Sendmail package.
- filecatcher.pl - run by procmail on the
destination machine to catch and adjust the file (use a recipe to catch
from the From and Subject line set by fling.pl)
Q2T
Convert Quoter files to Visual C++ Tip of the Day Files
I've got a
bunch
of quotes sitting around. I use Visual C++. VC can start each session
with a completely worthless "Tip of the Day".
This program converts my quote file into a Tip of the Day format so that VC
can greet me with something more fun than mindless prattle about custom
AppWizards.
the source
Whatsup
Summarize contents of incoming mailboxes
This simple script summarizes your unread mail from multiple
mailboxes. The mailbox and directory to be scanned are near the top of the
program. It assumes that your incoming mailboxes all start with "IN", to
change it, look at the regex near the center of the program.
the source