Software

Build Folio: The Build Folio program generates web pages that let you navigate a set of files and directories. Very good at generating thumbnailed indexes of directories containing a lot of images. The way the web pages are generated can be completely controlled via configuration files. The program is built as a Perl 5 script which by default calls the Tk package to provide a graphical front end. Originally developed on a PC running Windows, it should be able to run anywhere. The script generates its own documentation.

Build Folio Test Data: A set of directories, image and various other files that illustrate the types of things that build-folio.pl can do.  You can see what is generated by going here.

Change Attributes: Perl/Tk script to change file attributes under Windows. Allows you to specify a whole group of files and, for example set the ARCHIVE bit. Provides a nice front end that gives the user access to all the normal Windows attributes.

Version 1.1 provides a button to additionally list the matching files (and directories) in increasing size order. This is valuable when looking for stuff to clean up on a full disk.

Action: Perl/Tk script to carry out some actions under Windows. Allows you to join together, rename, uuencode or uudecode whole blocks of files.

Rename: General file rename program written in Perl (using Tk for an interface). Allows the user to specify file names using Perl patterns and change the names en-mass. Most valuable under Windows, where you can't use things like perl to do mass name changing.

Replace: A little script that does a textual "search and replace" on all the matching files in a directory. Most valuable under Windows, where you can't use things like perl to do mass text editing.

Splitter: A script that splits a file into multiple parts. This can be based on size or patterns found within the file. Most valuable under Windows, where you can't use things like split to cut up files.

RmDup: A script that looks for duplicate files within a directory and, if it finds any, removes them. I use it when I download changing pictures from the web (for example weather maps), if I run this then any exact duplicates are cleaned out even if the names are completely different.