ColorDiff is a wrapper for diff. It produces the same output as diff, but with coloured syntax highlighting at the commandline to improve readability. The output is similar to how a diff-generated patch might appear in Vim or Emacs with the appropriate syntax highlighting options enabled. The colour schemes can be read from a central configuration file or from a local user ~/.colordiffrc file.
Unpack automates the process of extracting source tarballs to a fixed location. By default, it will extract the tarballs to either $HOME/src or /tmp. It first checks that the tarball will create its own subdirectory, and if not, unpack creates a directory based on the tarball filename. Unpack is written in Perl and was developed for Linux, but should run unmodified on most Unix-based systems, although a recent version of GNU tar is recommended.
Re: colordiffrc Hmmm - looks like the patch got mangled - sorry. Email me privately at davee@sungate.co.uk if you want the patch. Dave.
Re: colordiffrc > Nice program! Am nitpicking really :-). > > colordiffrc doesn't tolerate blank > (empty lines) or > whitespace before variable names. Oh, OK, seeing a...