Swiss File Knife Files

Maintenance Release.
Read the changelist for details.

Zip File Contents:

1. Binaries of Swiss File Knife Base, the multi function command line tool
   for Windows (XP to Windows 8), Intel Linux (current and old releases),
   Apple Macintosh (i686 and PPC) and ARM systems like Raspberry Pi.

2. Sourcecode and build scripts of SFK Base,
   allowing compilation under Windows and Linux.

3. Some documentation, example and test files.

If you are in a hurry and want only a single executable,

-  download any of these files:

   sfk.exe              Swiss File Knife for Windows.
   sfk-linux.exe        SFK for 32 bits Intel Linux, like Ubuntu.
   sfk-linux-64.exe     SFK for 64 bits Intel Linux, like Ubuntu 64.
   sfk-linux-lib5.exe   SFK for older   Intel Linux, like DSL.
   sfk-mac-i686.exe     SFK for current Intel based Macs.
   sfk-mac-ppc.exe      SFK for older   PowerPC Macs.
   sfk-arm.exe          SFK for ARM systems like Raspberry Pi.

-  do NOT double click on the downloaded .exe,
   but open a terminal or command line window (CMD.EXE).

-  cd into your download folder.

-  Linux/Mac: rename the .exe to just "sfk" like:
      mv sfk-mac-i686.exe sfk
   then make it executable by:
      chmod +x sfk
   and finally type:
      ./sfk

-  Windows: rename the .exe to sfk.exe then type "sfk"

   if you have no unzip tool, or in a wrong version,
   you may download unzip for the command line from
   http://stahlworks.com/dev/index.php?tool=zipunzip

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Revision 4:
-  rel: 19.10.2016, Minor Update
-  sum: improved scripting with sfk if.
        improved sfk count.
-  chg: sfk batch, sfk samp sfkbat with windows:
        now using %~f0 instead of %0 to insert the
        full absolute batch name including extensions.
        this allows to type "mycmd" instead of
        "mycmd.bat" to run a script.
-  add: sfk count: direct file reading support.
-  fix: sfk if: now also accepts expressions starting
        like an option, like "-yes = -yes".
-  add: sfk tail: option -nowait to avoid blocking
        in a command chain using +loop.
-  fix: progress info output after wget even with -quiet=2.
-  fix: sfk web: error message "wrong date/time" because
        web server uses a different locale than client.
        now there is only a notice if -verbose is used.
-  doc: sfk goto: infos about broken chain data flow.
-  doc: sfk batch: improved template batch with
        help text display on empty parameters.
-  doc: wget info on -quiet=2.
Revision 3:
-  fix: sfk call, perline: error "missing or wrong script
        parameter" with empty parameters.
-  fix: sfk run and other: empty parameter before dir
        parameter list produced errors.
-  doc: info about no variable support with -bylist.
Revision 2:
-  ADD: sfk if with generic comparison of parameters,
        variables, strings and numbers.
-  CHG: sfk script: empty parameters and variables
        which are not surrounded by quotes are now removed.
-  add: sfk (x)hexfind, (x)replace, extract:
        option -fullheader to show offset/length infos 
        of found hits both with decimal and hexadecimal.
-  add: sfk goto, jump to a local label.
-  add: sfk label: option -var to enable variable use
        for all following commands.
-  fix: xhexfind: results >= 4048 bytes were not printed.
-  add: xhexfind: option -maxdump=n to show only n bytes.
-  fix: call mylabel called mylabel2 if present.
-  fix: sfk update: did not detect new version
        if 1.8.1 is compared with 1.8.1.2
-  fix: command chaining: when using short file selection
        in a command then using long file selection in
        following commands produced an error sometimes.
-  doc: sfk web: script example for access with
        connection error handling.
-  doc: sfk label: info about global options.
-  doc: sfk script: info about -var after label.
Initial Release:
-  rel: 29.09.2016, Major Update
-  sum: added support for sfk variables, allowing to store data
        from a command and to reuse it in other commands.
        massive improved scripting.
-  ADD: sfk variables. type "sfk help var" for infos.
        allows to store data produced by one command,
        and to reuse it in another command like #(name)
-  ADD: sfk perline, run sfk commands per text input line.
        similar to sfk run, but without starting an
        external program, and with full access
        to sfk variables produced by previous commands.
-  CHG: Syntax Change: sfk call, if: no longer clears
        chain text after command. call will now flush
        chain text before entering the label.
-  CHG: Syntax Change: sfk echo ... +call +xex
        no longer passes text of echo as chain data
        through to xex. use tcall for that.
-  CHG: Syntax Change: sfk gettext output changed with
        text produced by storetext -append. more below.
-  add: sfk samp http, create an example script
        for web access automation.
-  add: sfk xed, xex, xreplace, simple expressions:
        [setvar name]...[endvar] to set an sfk variable,
        [getvar name] to fill in data from an sfk variable.
-  add: sfk xed, simple expressions: keyword [ortext]
        to search literals OR combined. can only be used
        between literals.
-  add: sfk xed, simple expressions: keyword [keep]
        to search text that should be kept in input,
        without consume or replace.
-  add: sfk echo -lines to print every string as one line.
-  add: sfk xed: option -firsthit to use only first matching result.
-  add: sfk filter: option -line=n to read nth line from input.
-  add: sfk web: option -showreq, similar to -status.
-  add: sfk find: option -head=n to read only n lines.
-  add: sfk batch, alias of sfk samp sfkbat.
        may also create .sh files under windows.
-  add: sfk xf, alias for xmlform.
-  fix: command chaining: unexpected drop of data when
        chaining to echo, fromclip, var, gettext, getvar.
        e.g. sfk echo foo +echo bar +tofile out.txt
        dropped "foo", now it is printed.
-  add: command chaining: +tcall to consume text data
        and +tend to return text data.
-  fix: sfk script -from begin: if script contained
        a label begin2 this was called.
-  chg: sfk xex, xed: improved help examples, separate
        examples for xex and xed.
-  chg: sfk samp sfkbat, sfkbash now use %0 or $0
        instead of the script filename.
-  chg: Simple Expressions: now support zero length tokens
        like in "/[start][0 chars][1 char]/"
-  chg: sfk samp: path now allowed in output file
        with some language types.
-  add: sfk xex, xed: option -justrc to just set return code
        without printing any output.
-  add: sfk ... +tovoid to drop current chain text.
-  add: sfk stop: optional text to print, info on rc 9
        to stop a script from within call.
        dump of chain text on rc >= 9.
-  add: sfk call: improved help text.
-  FIX: sfk script, call: missing parameters produced errors
        or even crashed. now these are just empty.
-  fix: sfk ... +run was blocked with http:// url's.
-  fix: sfk web -status=... +xex didn't work.
-  fix: sfk echo: quoted multi line parms output
        contained unwanted CR characters and trailing
        blank line.
-  fix: sfk web: always produced rc 9.
-  fix: run -stoprc: did not work in a script.
-  fix: script: +if ... stop -all didn't work,
        as "if" misinterpreted options.
-  fix: script: +stop no longer requires +then stop.
-  fix: gettext: missing linefeeds on terminal output
        after multiple storetext -append. workarounds
        appending with "\n" must be changed.
-  fix: sfk version -own +filter didn't work.
-  fix: expression part info didn't show # chars.
-  chg: sfk samp sfkbat, sfkbash new templates.
-  add: sfk knxsend: support for alternative IP group,
        send of search request.
-  add: sfk knxdump: option -verbose to print search
        response verbosely.
-  doc: extended echo help.
-  doc: reworked help for sfk script.
-  doc: help text for sfk then.