This is a growing collection of the Unix tools that nobody thought\\ to write long ago, when Unix was young.\\ . \\ So far, it includes the following utilities:\\ - chronic: runs a command quietly unless it fails\\ - combine: combine the lines in two files using boolean operations\\ - errno: look up errno names and descriptions\\ - ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output\\ - ifne: run a program if the standard input is not empty\\ - isutf8: check if a file or standard input is utf-8\\ - lckdo: execute a program with a lock held\\ - mispipe: pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first\\ - parallel: run multiple jobs at once\\ - pee: tee standard input to pipes\\ - sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file\\ - ts: timestamp standard input\\ - vidir: edit a directory in your text editor\\ - vipe: insert a text editor into a pipe\\ - zrun: automatically uncompress arguments to command\\ \\