These programs are made available under the terms of the GNU General Public License. If you come across any bugs, or have any suggestions (or code!) for improvements, I'd love to hear from you. I'll actually be very suprised if any of these scripts turn out to be of any use to anybody...

These are 2 small scripts that I have which allow me to keep up to date with the latest updates from both Mandrake and Redhat. There are 2 scripts to download, updates (996 bytes) which downloads the stuff, and isoupdates (652 bytes) which produces an ISO disc image ready for burning to a CD. I run these both from cron(1) on a weekly basis.

This converts MS-DOS line endings in a text file to UNIX line endings, so the file looks normal on your Linux box. This one is so short, it's really not worth setting up as a download link - here's the script listing, just copy and paste as you see fit:

      
	#!/bin/bash
	#
	# convert MS-DOS line terminator characters to UNIX format
	#
	if [ "$#" -ne 1 ]; then
	    echo "Usage: undos filename\n"
	    exit 1
	fi

	cat $1 | tr -d '\015' > /tmp/$$
	chmod --reference=$1 /tmp/$$
	mv /tmp/$$ $1