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http://www.gnu.org/software/shtool/
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/shtool/

Version 2.0.4 (04-Feb-2006)

The GNU shtool program 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 program is intended to be used inside the source tree of free software packages. There it can take over various (usually non-portable) tasks related to the building and installation of such packages.

It currently contains the following tools:

  echo       Print string with optional construct expansion
  mdate      Pretty-print modification time of a file or dir
  table      Pretty print a field-separated list as a table
  prop       Display progress with a running propeller
  move       Move files with simultan substitution
  install    Install a program, script or datafile
  mkdir      Make one or more directories
  mkln       Make link with calculation of relative paths

mkshadow Make a shadow tree
fixperm Fix file permissions inside a source tree rotate Rotate logfiles
tarball Roll distribution tarballs subst Apply sed(1) substitution operations platform Platform identification utility

  arx        Extended archive command
  slo        Separate linker options by library class
  scpp       Sharing C Pre-Processor
  version    Generate and maintain a version information file
  path       Deal with program paths

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA, or contact Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>.

NOTICE: Given that you include GNU shtool verbatim into your own source tree, you are justified in saying that it remains separate from your package, and that this way you are simply just using GNU shtool. So, in this situation, there is no requirement that your package itself is licensed under the GNU General Public License in order to take advantage of GNU shtool.

The documentation and latest release can be found on

http://www.gnu.org/software/shtool/
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/shtool/

                                       Ralf S. Engelschall
                                       rse@engelschall.com
                                       www.engelschall.com