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new.sfxz text-based archive creation utility, C version

Posted 05-20-2015 at 04:53 AM by rainbowsally

new.sfxz text-based archive creation utility, C version

Today's fantastic adventure in Computer Mad Science is the creation of a utility to create the 'sfxz' text-based archives, such as this one (see below). But for anyone not familiar with amazing, magical, and mystifying power of Computer Mad Science, there are some other interesting things going on here.

Feature:
  • A simpler, faster, more reliable sfzx sytem using the C slist variation.
  • 'new.codeblocks code=c' test with codeblocks ide output to compile the app.
  • Yet another slist demo.

First, about 'slist'. This variation is for straight C. The slist utility was intended to get the nifty pipes and files functionality of lowly bash into high falutin' binary apps.

Just dropping in? All that junk with files and pipes is awkward and time consuming to write longhand every time you want to capture the output from a shell command or read/write a text file. Even pasting snippets is big and ugly, hard to read.

Whether you agree or not, have you ever wished you could do simple stuff like this in C/C++?
Code:
a=$(ls)
or
Code:
b=$(<textfile.txt)
or
Code:
echo "$b" > textfile.txt
That's what we're talkin' about. You can. Check it out in the fileset in the sfxz archive below.

Now for what's up with this code thing down below.

This archive is the sources for creating new.sfxz which replaces the ugly and overly complicated script version of new.sfxz uploaded a while back. It doubles as the test for 'new.codeblocks' using the "code=c" option. Works great still. You can add files and update them automatically using 'new.codeblocks' even while editing the files. Pretty cool.

'Nuff said, let's just run this and see what it does.

file: lq-new-sfxz.sfxz
purpose: self extracting archive
Code:
# run this as 'sh lq-new-sfxz.sfxz' to extract the files

# This is the binary sfxz creator that created this file which can be
# used to make text based self extracting filesets.
#
# Here are the contents of the extracted sfxz
#
# |-- new.sfxz.cbp 	(codeblocks ide launcher)
# `-- src
#     |-- new.sfxz.c	(the brainz)
#     |-- objlist.c	(base for for slist)
#     |-- objlist.h	
#     |-- sfxz.c	(strings for output)
#     |-- slist.c	(bash-like utility for C/C++ strings <--> files)
#     |-- slist.h
#     |-- update-strings.exec	(help compiler)
#     |-- usage_str.dat		(help strings)
#     `-- usage_str.txt		(source for help strings)
# 
# This sfxz creates 'new.sfxz' using the codeblocks ide.  If you have 
# mc2, use the -fetch switch and grab a C template instead, if you like.
#
# new.codeblocks, mc2, and new.sfxz are all here (or linked here) at 
# linuxquestions.org.
#
# The Computer Mad Science Team.  :-)

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tar xaf tmp.tar.xz
rm tmp.tar.xz
-The Computer Mad Science Team

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