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A new toy.
This is a simple shell script to get a lot of info about files. But also dirs, why not.

i can utilize the following commands:

• file

• xdg-mime

• rox

• df

• lsblk

• mountpoint

• findmnt

• lsof

• fdisk

• find

• ls

• du

• stat

• getfacl

• chacl

• getfattr

• lsattr

• fatattr

• exfatattrib

• ntfssecaudit

• filefrag

• wc

• rdjpgcom

• exiv2

• feh

• gifsicle

• tiffinfo

• webpng

• webpinfo

• xcfinfo

• xcur2png

• fc-scan

• ftdump

• ogginfo

• metaflac

• sndfile-info

• ffprobe

• ctorrent

• pdfinfo

• pdfimages

• pdffonts

• pdfdetach

• unzip

• isoinfo

• udfinfo

• dpkg-deb

• rpm

• unsquashfs

• wiminfo

• btrfs-compsize

• upx

• gzip

• xz

• zstd

• zipinfo

• sqlite3

• cryptsetup

• modinfo

• readelf

• objdump

• ldd

i was meant as a pure CLI utility, but, as a measure of convenience, it also installs itself as a ROX and/or Thunar (needs to be restarted with thunar -q) right-click option.
When invoked this way, it uses a simple YAD GUI; otherwise a terminal will be used, as a fallback:

Btw, the YAD GUI may freeze occasionally after clicking Close or X button.
In such a case, just give it 10 sec. or so, and it should go away eventually.

Program icon, as per usual, was created using @vovchik's excellent Pikona.
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Attached packages:

• PET - for regular Puppies

• XBPS - for Void-based Pups that use it (KLV, maybe others)

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Changelog

Version 1.1:
- added feh (basic info about images)
- added fdisk (info about disk images)
- added unzip (meta from ODF/OOXML documents)
- bugfixes, improvements, refactoring

Version 1.0:
- initial release

Have fun &
Greetings!

@JakeSFR

Thanks for this

I tried to install the Xbps offering on VoidPup64 but my OS only gave me the option to 'extract' the application, so had to use the supplied Pet instead.

I was wondering if could view checksums (not all of them!!) too in a future update?

Jasper wrote: ↑Sun Sep 15, 2024 12:14 pm

@JakeSFR

Thanks for this

Hey @Jasper, you're welcome!

I tried to install the Xbps offering on VoidPup64 but my OS only gave me the option to 'extract' the application, so had to use the supplied Pet instead.

Yeah, although VoidPup64 has xbps utilities pre-installed, apparently it doesn't use them for package management, unlike e.g. KLV-Airedale.

I was wondering if could view checksums (not all of them!!) too in a future update?

I was briefly considering checksums, but processing big files, like ISOs and videos, especially on HDD, would be painfully slow (times the number of checksums).
Besides, I'm not sure if it can be considered an info about a file, it's more like reductive scrambling of file's data.
So, it's not only for practical, but also philosophical reasons.

Greetings!

No worries ........... already installed and in using it.

Another simple and effective tool

@JakeSFR

Excellent work!

This is a good utility script so I will install i into KLV-Airedale and KLV-Spectr as a default utility during the next upgrade cycle. After short time of using it in KLV-Boxer, and after getting used it being available, I realized it is quite a handy tool to have onboard.

Thanks

Very nice utility

Wish my never-ending house build issues would finish so I could get back into all this in even partly focussed way. But been sick with fever for a week and was in middle of two back to back major tropical cyclones so landslides and floods all around and every roof leaking. Didnt help that I accidentally left car window open after driving through flood one rainy night... Clearly I need a wee Linux box in the car and another few on our property with sensors and detectors for all potential issues including security. So much to do that could be done using specially crafted forum distros... Yad makes great front ends. I also need to figure out how to connect everything up when plot is more than 100m long and sometimes 50m wide and is more like a lake with various small rivers running through it at the moment. Relying a lot on solar but no sun means lithium device batteries long discharged. Interesting project scenarios, but too busy just surviving the loss of municipal water supply, often whole day electricity brownouts, and the countless leaks and flooded access roads. Funnily enough the fibre internet strung on flimsy poles through trees continues to work with help of lead acid battery based UPS with AVR connected to the modem... Back now to my coffee - like an ostrich I am hiding my head in the sandy surrounds of a nearby beach resort cafe that has reliable facilities including diesel backup generators and Elon Musk Starlink...

I should get stemsee to help me build an Ark instead of the house.

Thanks guys, glad you like it!
I wasn't entirely sure myself if it's actually useful, or if it's just a gimmick, but as it turned out, I've also been using it quite often since the inception.

@wiak: oh man... Hope the bad streak is over soon, and good luck with your future endeavours.

Greetings!

Version 1.1:

- added feh (basic info about images)
- added fdisk (info about disk images)
- added unzip (meta from ODF/OOXML documents)
- bugfixes, improvements, refactoring

First post updated.

Greetings!

JakeSFR wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 6:27 pm

Version 1.1:

- added feh (basic info about images)
- added fdisk (info about disk images)
- added unzip (meta from ODF/OOXML documents)
- bugfixes, improvements, refactoring

First post updated.

Greetings!

After just assembling KLV-Airedale-sr15 I see these great additions so now I will add this in and repackage the entire distro. Good stuff.....