Swiss File Knife Changelog

What's new in Swiss File Knife 1.9.8.2

Sep 26, 2022

Sum: added clipboard access on desktop linux and mac. copy to clipboard is now faster. detail improvements and bugfixes.
Add: sfk fromclip/toclip on Macintosh, through the pbcopy/pbpaste tool.
Add: sfk fromclip/toclip on desktop linux, through the xclip tool.
Add: "if" now accepts text "1" or "0" to execute or skip the following command or block.
Add: sfk incvar, decvar to increase or decrease the value of a numeric variable.
Add: sfk unzip -asdir x renames the top level folder from a zip file on extraction.
Add: sfk ping: option -noterm to allow writing of ping output to a file.
Add: sfk make-random-file: option -char c to create a file filled with character c
Add: sfk load: option -force to continue script on missing file
Add: sfk calc: -hex to print hexadecimal result.
Add: sfk sft ... putx: alias for put -setexec=*
Add: option -maxsub=n to include up to n subdir levels in commands like list.
Add: sfk knxsend, knxdump: more data types.
Opt: sfk toclip: massive performance improvement with larger data, if -trim etc. options are not used.
Opt: sfk fromclip: performance improvement if following command can receive binary, like xed or xex.
Chg: sfk toclip: now receives binary and text data, to avoid unwanted conversions.
Fix: hexfind: -maxdump was ignored in sfk ose.
Fix: sfk batch vedit.bat: join of videos now works with ffmpeg 4.4.1 or higher
Fix: sfk ... +hexdump -offlen too much output.
Fix: sfk data: symbols like $1foo did not reuse.
Fix: make-random-file: sometimes added LfLf instead of just CrLf line endings.
Doc: more details on -deacc search option.
Doc: alias: xclip example for windows.

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.7.0 (May 23, 2020)

Sum:
Improved file copy and backup, shown in a new script template.
SFK for Mac OS/X is now available as a 64-bit binary.
Improved FTP/SFT clients. Mobile friendly web server.
Improved batch support on linux. Many bug fixes and detail improvements.
CHG:
SFK for Windows: now uses the Visual Studio 2015 runtime also for 32-bit binaries (it always used it for the 64 bit binaries). This may cause a one-time recopy of files with sfk copy/sync and sft cput, as the new runtime interprets file dates in daylight savings time different.
CHG: SYNTAX CHANGE: sfk filter ++word1 ++word2 is deprecated. Use instead sfk filter -and+word1 -and+word2, or sfk filter "-+word1*word2" to search in given order. The "++" will be used in a future version to control command chaining data flow.
CHG: SYNTAX CHANGE: script remarks starting like //text without any whitespace are now deprecated. sfk script, call, perline now require that "//" remarks are followed by one space, to avoid ambiquities with //pathname UNC paths.
FIX: sfk sel mydir +del a.txt deleted mydir files. now the parameter conflict produces an error.
CHG: FTP/SFT CLIENT SYNTAX CHANGE: filenames containing whitespace like 'the dir/the file.txt' can no longer be typed as is, but must be surrounded by quotes "". this is because ftp/sft now allows to add another parameter, which is a different target filename.
CHG: errors and warnings are now prefixed by the current sfk command name, to find script errors easier.
Chg: sfk batch: new example scripts. default is a small script with a simple file copy example. added option -full to create a large backup example script with different commands on the same file set.
Add: sfk ftp/sft put now supports a different remote file name.
Add: sfk ftp/sft get now supports a different local file name.
Add: sfk sft put: option -setexec to set executable flag on files when sending to a linux server.
Add: sfk webserv: mobile friendly layout
Add: script: empty parameters "" are now accepted the same way as option -noop (no operation), avoiding many unexpected syntax errors on optional input parameters.
Opt: sfk big, sfk late: massive performance improvement when listing many files.
Chg: unknown options now produce an immediate error with most commands, instead of a delayed or no error.
Chg: command chain no longer stops at +view.
Add: script -anyparms, alias for script -literal.
Chg: sfk clipsrc now also expands % to %%.
Chg: sfk dir/stat mydir +view now shows stats in dview.
Add: sfk list -withhead now passes header infos like 'listing n of n files' to command chain.
Add: sfk dir/big/late full colored +view support.
Add: sfk syncnames, heuristic file name change sync.
Add: sfk calc: experimental brackets support.
Add: sfk time: option -strfpat to use strftime format.
Add: sfk date: just show the current date.
Add: sfk batch on linux/mac: now does chmod +x on the created batch.
Add: sfk alias, mkcd on linux: detailed help in case of error how to use it.
Add: sfk alias, mkcd on linux: if done using sudo then the batch file owner is now set to the normal user.
Add: sfk sft: ~ as alias for localhost
Fix: sfk ftp/sft missing error text with single file.
Fix: sfk ... +view color of warnings was unreadable yellow, now it is magenta like the sfk white background scheme.
Fix: dir, snapto: wrong typed options caused to select all files of current folder.
Fix: -fileset: memory leaks on multiple use in subsequent commands.
Fix: sfk sel -fileset fname did not work.
Chg: warning "cannot read file stat" is now just "cannot read".
Doc: sft -showip

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.6.2 (Feb 23, 2020)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.6.0 (Feb 8, 2020)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.5.2 (Aug 28, 2019)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.5.0 (Jun 5, 2019)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.4.3 (Mar 22, 2019)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.4.2 (Feb 17, 2019)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.4.0 (Feb 11, 2019)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.3.4 (Dec 8, 2018)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.3.3 (Nov 1, 2018)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.3.2 (Oct 3, 2018)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.3 (Sep 19, 2018)

Sum: added sfk addtovar to collect text lines
in a variable, sfk crc to create crc-32 checksums,
sfk difflines to list different unique lines
between two text files. improved ftp client
compatibility. many detail improvements
for scripting, like new variable functions.
Chg: Syntax Change: command chaining no longer allows
data tunneling through non consuming commands.
in a chain like cmd1 +cmd2 +cmd3 +cmd4 +cmd5
it is no longer possible to send data from
cmd1 to cmd3/4/5 if cmd2 uses no chain data
(e.g. if, tell). this tunneling was inconsistent
and caused endless conflicts by unwanted chain data
in cmd3/4/5. use -keepdata or SET SFK_CONFIG=keepdata
for the old behaviour which was inconsistent
and worked only sometimes.
Chg: Syntax Change: sfk if: no longer passes through
any chain data, as this behaviour was ambiguous
and caused endless unwanted chain input.
this means combinations like
+xed /a/b/ +if ... +xed /b/c/
are no longer possible. use '+tif' instead,
or global option -keepdata.
Add: sfk ... +tif for conditional execution
requesting text and stream data explicitely.
Add: sfk ... +tgoto to jump to a label passing
text and stream data explicitely.
Chg: Syntax Change: sfk md5: now only prints the
checksum without filename if only a single
filename is given. use option -name
for the old behaviour.
Chg: Data Change: sfk getvar -line no longer
appends CR or LF at extracted line.
Chg: Data Change: web: no longer produces shell
return code 9 on error, but 1, to be
consistent with command chaining rc.
FIX: linux: case insensitive pattern match
and text extraction did not work,
esp. with xed or xex.
CHG: improved scripting: combinations like
sfk echo foo +setvar a=text
sfk echo foo +setvar a +if ... setvar b=text
sfk echo foo +xex ... +setvar b=1
no longer require 'then' in many cases.
Add: Simple Expressions: tag [skip] at the start
of a pattern now skips this text completely
and does not count it as a hit.
Chg: archive file extensions: extended the list
of archive files recognized by -[q]arc by
more office file extensions.
for full details type: sfk help opt
Chg: no longer activating archive file read
implicitely with most functions.
use -[q]arc instead.
Fix: ftpserv, httpserv: unwanted listing of
zip file contents instead of zip file itself.
Add: sfk addtovar, append text as lines to a variable
Add: variables: #(strpos(a,b)) and #(contains(a,b))
now searches content of variable b within
text of variable a.
Add: variables: #(begins(a,'word')) now tells if
text of variable a starts with word.
Chg: scripts: #(rsubstr(s,o,l)) now also supports
offset/length beyond string length,
producing an empty string instead of error.
Fix: scripts: #(substr(a,n)) with n beyond
length of a stopped the script with
"invalid variable expression".
now it evaluates to an empty string.
Add: sfk variables: function #(numlines(a))
to tell number of lines in variable a.
Add: sfk md5var, create md5 hash
from sfk variable content.
Add: sfk difflines, show text lines that differ
between two text files or variables
Add: sfk crc, crcgento, crccheck to create
and verify crc32 checksums (the same as
used in zip files).
Add: sfk list: now sets return code if any
matching files or dirs were found.
Add: sfk web: now sets return code 1 on any error.
Add: sfk sft: now sets return code if any
files were sent.
Add: del[tree] now sets return code on failure
Add: deltree now retries a failed folder deletion
2 times with a 100 msec wait inbetween.
Add: del[tree] option -stoponerr to stop chain
execution if deletion fails
Chg: del[tree] now produces a warning
if deletion is incomplete.
Fix: ftp client: 30 second wait after listing
of directory or file download with some servers.
Fix: run: -printcmd was ignored.
Chg: zip reading: invalid zip file now produces
a warning instead of an error.
Fix: xfind, replace functions, xrename: variables
were not expanded for dir parameters.
Chg: sfk run: now shows a notice if no filenames
are processed on chaining.
Chg: xed, xrename now ignore empty pattern parameters
instead of stopping with an error.
useful for scripting with optional parms.
Chg: command chaining: -verbose now shows a notice
"chaining stops before ...: no data"
if execution stops due to no data.
Chg: command chaining: no longer showing
"chaining stops ...: no filenames"
unless -verbose is given.
Chg: sfk batch out.sh under linux:
added exit after sfk call.
Chg: sfk sft cput: if no files are sent
then -quiet no longer tells anything.
Add: copy -flat2 to copy all files of a dir tree
to an output folder with relative names.
Add: make-random-file -lock option, to keep
a file locked for testing.
Fix: xfind with -justrc: chaining to if
was not possible if nothing was found.
Fix: xfind -showrc produced an error.
Add: ifnotexist, check if a file does not exist.
Add: swap, reverse chain text character order
Add: Windows: sfk clock: pressing enter
now resets the relative time.
Add: Windows: sfk clock3 shows overall start time
and, when pressing Enter, relative time since
overall start in a second column.
Add: sfk clock2 to show just a relative time.
Add: sft client: multi file send: now showing
total mb info.
Add: xed: option -tolines to force line output.
Fix: xed: listing of mem leaks if given filename
cannot be read, or input too large.
Doc: end: xed -tolines reference
Doc: tofile: addtovar reference
Doc: sft: upload loop example.
Doc: index: reworked linux examples.
Doc: xfind: -showrc removed, wrong context.
Doc: filter: difflines reference.
Doc: help opt: new list of archive extensions
and -qarc info
Doc: xed: reference to sfk swap
Doc: sfk help chain: data tunneling notice.

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.2 (Jul 6, 2018)

Sum: added sfk move to move files, getcol and tabcol to easily get a column from space or tab separated text. improvements of xed, getvar, scripting. fixed context cleanup of perline.
Chg: Syntax Change: sfk zip: no longer adds .zip to output filename if it contains any dot '.'. this allows to create zip files with any extension, like .odt or .jar. use option -zipext for the old behaviour.
Add: checkzip: option -md5 to show md5 checksums of zip file contents
Add: general option -more to pause output per page.
Add: xhexfind: option -context=n to show n bytes of context around results.
Add: sfk for: now supports counting down, negative start/end values, and optional step size.
Add: sfk zip: option -rel to strip top level folder name of filenames within zip.
Add: sfk xed: option -write to rewrite a given file with changed output.
Fix: sfk if: now supports expression starting with plus like: if "+a = +a" ...
Fix: perline: context and options were not fully reset between two lines, e.g. load files.txt +perline "list #qtext" -yes produced wrong output.
Add: sfk move: move files between two folders.
Add: sfk mkdir: option -forfile to create dir tree for a given filename
Add: scripts: #(substr(s,o,l)) now also supports variable (names) for o and l.
Add: scripts: #(rsubstr(s,o,l)) to get substring from the right side in left direction.
Add: sfk getcol, tabcol to get one column from whitespace or tab separated text. alias of sfk filter.
Add: sfk ping: option -every to ping every n sec.
Add: make-random-file: output folder creation.
Add: sfk times, alias for sfk list -times.
Add: list: now also accepts -times with 's'.
Add: sfk getvar: option -numline=n to get a line by number.
Add: zip/unzip: option -offtime to support file times which are one hour off.
Fix: xtext: with -to out$file it produced error -4 during simulation.
Fix: xtext: -to out$file no longer writes :file headers into output files.
Fix: rand: missing range check.
Fix: ifexist file stop -all ... was not possible.
Fix: windows mingw g++ compile.
Chg: sfk if: improved "need a command" error info.
Doc: list: example how to keep only existing filenames from a list of filenames
Doc: count: example for filter/setvar/count.
Doc: copy: reference to move.
Doc: xtext: how to extract text starting at a line.
Doc: help var: new (r)substr behaviour.
Doc: addcr: example for current folder.
Doc: sfk times example.
Doc: sfk zip: example to unzip/zip an .odt file.

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.1 Revision 3 (May 29, 2018)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.1 Revision 2 (Apr 19, 2018)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.1 (Apr 19, 2018)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.1.0 (Apr 13, 2018)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.9.0 Revision 2 (Mar 14, 2018)

chg: behaviour change with wtoa, utoa: if chars fail to convert these now stop command chaining with return code 9. use option -nostop to continue processing with return code 1, without warning.
add: windows: general option -deacc to search text and select files accent insensitive, meaning a == A == a_accent == A_accent.
add: windows: listcodes support for -deacc.
add: windows: sfk utftoansi, ansitoutf to convert 8-bit text directly between your Ansi codepage and UTF-8 format.
add: windows: wtoa, utoa return code support.
add: listcodes: advanced option -codepage to select other codepages.
fix: sfk inst: files with UTF-8 BOM header were changed incorrectly, producing a compile error near line 2. now the BOM is detected and text inserted after that.
fix: sfk inst: line ending format lf vs. crlf is now kept
chg: sfk inst: now runs in simulation mode by default.
doc: sfk filt, xex: -case with ref to help nocase.
doc: sfk help unicode ref to utoa, atou. - doc: main help ref to utoa. Initial Release:
rel: 28.02.2018,
Major Update:
sum: SFK for Windows now supports case insensitive search and file selection within the codepage of your Windows system. Depending on your codepage this allows to search umlauts, accents, cyrillic or greek characters case insensitive. Added functions to convert text from and to UCS-2 wide character data.
add: windows: case insensitive search and file selection within the codepage of your windows system. depending on your codepage this allows to search german umlauts, french accents, cyrillic and greek characters case insensitive.
add: sfk help nocase, about case insensitive search.
add: sfk listcodes, list all characters that can be searched case insensitive with your Windows codepage
add: sfk help chars, about locale specific characters
add: general option
nocasemin to match only latin chars a-z case insensitive without any accents.
add: windows: sfk wtoa and atow, convert UCS-2 wide character text to 8-bit Ansi codepage text and vice versa.
add: sfk wtou and utow, convert UCS-2 wide character text to 8-bit UTF-8 text and vice versa.
chg: windows: sfk chars output format changed, now showing both Ansi and OEM code, and character name where available, with a table header. use option -min for the old minimal format
fix: xex: option -case was ignored. fix: xtext, xfind: error -1 on output with files of 2 or 3 gbytes size.
add: xfind, xtext: now shows an improved progress indicator by default. use -quiet for old behaviour.
add: sfk make-zero-file, create a file full of zero bytes to clean unused space on a filesystem.
add: sfk status: new field layout=n to change SFKTray layout to 2, 4 or 9 slots display. requires SFKTray 1.0.2.
add: windows: sfk prompt now converts input from dos to ansi codepage by default
add: windows: sfk script option -dos to load DOS/OEM codepage encoded script files
fix: windows: delayed terminal after filtering of text content with special characters.
add: sfk strings: option -allchars to extract all printable chars from binary files.
add: snapto: option -binallchars to extract all printable chars from binary files.
add: sysinfo: display of SFK_CONFIG variable.
add: xtext: display of written file with -to outdir$file.
fix: xtext: error message with -to outdir$file as long as in simulation, without text output.
chg: option -nocconv can now be used locally per command.
dep: option -iso is deprecated/ignored.
dep: option -umlauts is deprecated/ignored.
doc: main help title changed from: The Swiss File Knife File Tree Processor to: The Swiss File Knife Multi Function Tool.
doc: sfk index, name now reference sfk home.
doc: sfk setvar, load, storetext, stop in main help.
doc: wtoa, wtou in main help.
doc: xrep: notice to use [eol] to replace line endings.
doc: filter: reference to help nocase, help unicode. - doc: find, replace: reference to help nocase. - doc: general option -binallchars - doc: sfk ose: xfind help did not show expression syntax. - doc: sfk ren: top reference to sfk renfile. - doc: sfk copy: single file copy example.

New in Swiss File Knife 1.8.9 Revision 2 (Jan 13, 2018)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.8.9 (Dec 7, 2017)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.8.8 Revision 2 (Sep 22, 2017)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.8.8 (Sep 22, 2017)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.8.7 (Jul 7, 2017)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.8.6 Revision 3 (Jun 10, 2017)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.8.6 (May 31, 2017)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.8.5 Revision 3 (May 21, 2017)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.8.5 Revision 2 (May 7, 2017)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.8.5 (Apr 27, 2017)

Sum: fix of FTP server which blocked folder transfers with many ftp clients. rework of FTP server and client for improved connectivity under Windows.
Improved scripting by for loop.
Added listle to list line end infos for text files.
Detail improvements of udpdump, list, setbytes.
CHG: FTP Client Change under Windows: when using "sfk ftp" with an sfk ftp server, via port 21, the client now uses plain FTP protocol by default to avoid firewall restrictions. use option -sft or SFK_CONFIG=usesft for the old behaviour if no firewall interferes.
FIX: ftp server: transfer of folders with most ftp clients was blocked as CWD /mydir/ was not possible, since sfk 1.8.4. (side effect from dir traversal fix)
Fix: ftp server: unexpected close connection errors at client on QUIT command. QUIT now produces a reply 221 before closing the connection.
Fix: ftp client: missing display of error reply from server on ftp put, mput, sel ... +ftp mput.
Add: ftp client: options -raw to force plain ftp and -sft to allow sft even via port 21.
Chg: ftp server: 5xx error replies are now always shown on console unless -quiet is given.
Chg: ftp: now tells protocol used (ftp/sft) on every file transfer.
Add: ftp server: display of verify in verbose mode.
Add: sfk for, like for var from s to e +... +endfor.
Add: sfk listle, list line end infos for text files.
Fix: sfk for windows: absolute paths with forward slash like /tmp were not detected with some commands like sfk sel /mydir +copy -ltarg /outdir
Add: sfk setbytes: option -repeat=n to repeat data n times.
Add: sfk list: option -abs to list full absolute paths.
Add: sfk udpdump: now accepts both "," or blank separator for multi ip mask.
Add: sfk udpdump: warning on wrong chars in ip mask.
Chg: sfk view: changed some colors to look more like the white color theme.
Fix: sfk ask -abs used only -ab
Doc: sfk replace: help now always lists the possible shell return codes.
Doc: sfk script: improved infos on parameter name collision.
Doc: sfk filter: -format examples improved.
Doc: sfk udpdump: examples for multi ip filtering.
Doc: sfk xfind: windows return code handling example.
Doc: sfk addcr/remcr: reference to listle.
Doc: sfk ftpserv and ftp: help text rework.

New in Swiss File Knife 1.8.4 Revision 2 (Mar 11, 2017)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.8.4 (Mar 1, 2017)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.8.3 (Jan 22, 2017)

sum: detail improvements for index file handling, udp message sending, text filter, windows/linux unified scripts. easier scripting by sfk tell which never sends given text to following commands. scripts can now call more nested sub functions. bug fixes for run, tail, hexdump.
chg: option -upat now also support "/" for start of name comparison as in -subdir :/tmp or -file :/tmp - chg: "sfk lindex" renamed to "sfk index" for easier use. sfk lindex is still supported for compatibility.
add: "sfk iname" renamed to "sfk name" for easier use. sfk iname is still supported for compatibility.
add: sfk udpsend: if a short ip is expanded the full target ip is now shown. option showip to force showing of ip instead of host in sent info.
add: sfk ip: optional expansion of given short ip. chaining support to pass ip text to other commands.
add: sfk filter -toupper, -tolower to convert a-z to upper- or lowercase. does not convert any special characters like accents or umlauts.
add: file selection option -tomake outdir$base.ext to select all files having no or an older counterpart file in output folder outdir. see "sfk run" for an example of .wav to .mp3 conversion with ffmpeg.
fix: sfk udpsend, tonetlog could net send to different targets in the same command chain or script.
add: sfk tell, same as echo but only prints to terminal and never sends given text to following commands, allowing scripts with fewer "+then" statements.
add: sfk data, create random test data records.
chg: reduced stack load per call and perline allowing more nested calls.
fix: sfk dumphelp: now prints main help text first.
fix: sfk run with a single string containing # or $ did nothing.
fix: sfk tail under windows: handling of files > 2 GB without option -altsize.
fix: sfk ... +hexdump unexpected dump of all files of current folder.
chg: sfk knxdump, knxsend: GA support up to 31/7/255, support to send to unicast address.
doc: updated list, run, help opt, echo/tell, xed, filter, media, call, perline, dupfind

New in Swiss File Knife 1.8.2 (Jan 22, 2017)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.8.1 (Sep 29, 2016)

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.

New in Swiss File Knife 1.8.0 (Aug 31, 2016)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.7.7 (Jul 30, 2016)

sum: easy web data access with functions sfk web, wfilter, xex. added sfk calc to do simple calculations. improvements of wget, ftpclient, udpdump, find, xfind, script. diverse bug fixes.
inf: Compatibility Notice: sfk scripts with quoted multi line parameters will change their default behaviour in the future. see "sfk label" options -qtrim and -qraw.
dep: Deprecation Warning: sfk webreq should no longer be used. use sfk web instead.
chg: Compatibility Notice: sfk pause: no longer sets a non zero shell return code if Esc key is pressed (which was undocumented).
add: sfk update: check for SFK updates.
add: sfk pause: option -keyrc to set the shell return code by ascii code of the pressed key. - add: sfk filter: option -head=n to read only first n lines of text files.
add: sfk filter: option -tail=n to read only last n lines of text files.
add: web access support with sfk filter, xex. help text examples for web access.
add: xe: sfk xreplace: option -astext to print search/replace hits as plain text.
add: sfk web, send a simple web request. new implementation replacing webreq.
add: sfk label: option -qtrim to strip whitespace from quoted multiline parameters.
add: sfk ftpserv: support for environment variables SFK_FTP_SUSER, SFK_FTP_SPW, SFK_FTP_SRUNPW which are used only by sfk ftpserv, not sfk ftp.
add: sfk ftp: support for environment variables SFK_FTP_CUSER, SFK_FTP_CPW which are used only by sfk ftp, not sfk ftpserv.
add: main help now lists the most important active environment variables.
add: full documentation of option -upat for using unix patterns : and # under windows.
add: option -upat2 to use sfk linux wildcard % instead of * under windows
add: sfk windows: set SFK_CONFIG=upat or upat2 support to use unix syntax in bash files - add: sfk for windows now also supports environment variable option SFK_CONFIG=wildstar:c to support a different wildcard character.
add: sfk calc, do a simple calculation of two values.
add: xfind, xhexfind: option -names to show just the names of files containing hits. - fix: udpsend: no error on missing port or data.
fix: find: option -justrc produced blank lines.
add: udpdump: option -from now supports multiple ip patterns separated by comma.
add: udpdump: option -notfrom.
add: wget: auto expansion of url to http://url
chg: ftp client: "server speaks sft" message is now shown only with -verbose.
chg: ftp client: "using SFK_FTP_PW" message is now shown only with -verbose.
add: wget: option -maxwait to stop on timeout.
opt: wget: no longer sends head request.
add: httpserv: -raw option to send content without any reply headers.
fix: wget: download from a primitive server that sends no http headers produced incomplete first text line.
fix: sfk gettext: did not work in many cases.
chg: sfk if, sfk call: no longer consume chain text without any output.
add: sfk fromclip -h: example how to append clipboard changes to a logfile in a loop.

New in Swiss File Knife 1.7.6 Revision 3 (May 3, 2016)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.7.6 Revision 2 (Apr 24, 2016)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.7.6 (Jan 15, 2016)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.7.4 Revision 4 (Apr 3, 2015)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.7.4 Revision 2 (Feb 19, 2015)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.7.4 (Feb 10, 2015)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.7.3 (Jan 9, 2015)

CHG:
SYNTAX CHANGE: by default, sfk xfind and xtext now show complete text lines containing one or more search hits. add option
pure to show only search hits as before, or change defaults by an environment variable SET SFK_CONFIG=xfind:pure,xtext:pure sfk xtext is now an alias of xfind -nobin, i.e. it searches only in text files.
COMPLETE REWORK OF SEARCH FUNCTIONS: xfind, xtext, xhexfind, extract. output may look completely different now. many new options. reworked help text. CHECK YOUR BATCH FILES if the new outputs still work for you as expected.
SYNTAX CHANGE: sfk find: patterns starting with "-" are no longer supported directly but must be prefixed by "\". options can now be given after search patterns.
add: sfk csvtotab to convert comma separated data.
add: sfk tabtocsv to convert tab separated data to csv.
add: sfk filter -trim, -ltrim, -rtrim to remove blanks and tab characters at start or end of lines.
add: sfk fromclip: option -ltrim and alias "sfk lclip" to remove blanks and tabs at start of lines.
add: sfk xfind/xex -bylinelist to specify a simplified list of search terms without any totext.
add: sfk extract is now available in base/xd.
add: sfk view: improved help if dview is not found.
add: xed, xex: direct reading of zip file entries.
chg: sfk view: now passing through all non sfk options and parameters as is, like "-tab 8". parms with blanks are enquoted.
chg: source code cleanup: removed patch.cpp and inst.cpp, integrated them into sfknet.cpp and renamed this to sfkext.cpp for easy compilation.
chg: default replace color with theme:white now purple on windows and linux.
chg: sfk xex -showparts now shows only part numbers then stops processing.
chg: xreplace: improved [lstart] handling.
fix: xreplace: character classes at start of pattern with a zero min length like in "/[0.100 white]foo/" did not work in case of zero length hit.
chg: hexfind: now using wide hexdump.
chg: xed, xex: without any patterns it now passes through input unmodified.
fix: filter +xed produced LF i/o CRLF under windows.
fix: (x)hexfind: did not show absolute offset in file.
fix: (x)hexfind: ignored windows console width.
fix: extract, xfind -tofile: -nofile was ignored.
add: sfk cmd n, print a command n from the help text as one long line.
add: web reference info per command.

New in Swiss File Knife 1.7.2 Revision 3 (Oct 9, 2014)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.7.2 Revision 2 (Oct 9, 2014)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.7.2 (Oct 9, 2014)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.7.1 Revision 2 (Apr 16, 2014)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.7.1 (Mar 20, 2014)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.7.0 (Feb 12, 2014)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.6.9 (Dec 21, 2013)

CHG: SFK REPLACE: CHANGE IN DEFAULT BEHAVIOUR WHEN USING \xnn SLASH PATTERN CODES. By default,
hex codes like \x41 are NOT treated as characters and therefore are NOT searched case insensitive,
even if they represent a character code. In other words, \xnn is always treated as BINARY
and only the EXACT code nn is searched. This can be changed by option -xchars. CHECK YOUR BATCH FILES if you need the old behaviour. If \x41 (ASCII code for A) should always find both
A and a you may also set an environment variable: SET SFK_CONFIG=xchars
add: base/xd: free demo of sfk xhexfind and xtext to search in text and binary files using wildcards and SFK Expressions.
fix: sfk replace ... +replace crashed.
chg: sfk replace ... -to outdir\$file: now always creating output directories that don't exist.
chg: sfk replace: now supporting single dir parameter, i.e. sfk replace mydir "/fromtext/totext/"
CHG: sfk hexdump output to terminal: by default the filename is now prefixed by ":file " to be compatible to hextobin. use option -rawname for old format.
CHG: sfk hextobin: stricter input format handling considering >< and # delimiters. use option
-fuzzy for old behaviour.
chg: sfk sel ... +sft mget: no longer requiring "." after mget to download to current directory.
add: sfk tcpdump, udpdump: option -maxdump to dump only the first n bytes of incoming messages.
add: sfk replace with -to or -tofile: option -force to create output directories.
add: sfk sft cput, cget alias for mput/mget -up.
add: sfk replace: option -noacc to disable case insensitive search of accent and umlaut chars.
add: sfk udpdump: options -size, -min/maxsize to show only messages with given sizes.
add: sfk udpdump: option -data to filter messages by text or binary content.
add: sfk hexdump: support for negative offsets to dump last parts of files.
chg: sfk replace: options can now be placed more freely when mixed with -dir ... -file.
add: sfk x, alias for sfk iname for quick typing.
add: sfk select ... +hexfind chaining.
fix: hexdump -pure ... +tofile unwanted empty lines.
fix: udpsend: now accepts 0xn with uneven length.
fix: sfk hexfind under linux: hex dump too lean.
fix: replace hex dump preview of changes: whole text was highlighted instead of only the changes with bright backgrounds. multiple hits within short range caused wrong display of older hits.
add: sfk rawclip, same as sfk fromclip +toclip to remove unwanted formatting from text
add: sfk for windows: extra help text on how to use the console if sfk is started from windows explorer.
chg: bright background color scheme: "hit:" color changed from red to green as it was the same as error color.
add: help text: info about how to escape characters % and $ in batch files
add: udpdump: -bonjour preset option
add: SFK OSE solaris compile support.
chg: sfk hex: now printing an error on non numeric parameters, to avoid confusion with hexfind
fix: syntax errors produced memory leak warnings
add: support for -verbose=0
add: sfk xe: hexdump of zip file contents.
chg: command name "grep" no longer documented as it is misleading, use only sfk find.

New in Swiss File Knife 1.6.8 Revision 0 (Jul 10, 2013)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.6.7 Revision 3 (Jun 21, 2013)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.6.7 Revision 2 (Jun 21, 2013)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.6.7 (Apr 29, 2013)

CHG: SFK FTPSERV CHANGE IN DEFAULT BEHAVIOUR: By default, - current dir AND ALL SUB DIRS is made accessible. use option -nosub to disable. - with -rw, files of ANY size can be written. use option -maxsize=n to set a limit. - inactivity timeout is now 60 seconds. - if a single working directory name is given then listed filenames are no longer prefixed by this directory name. This means options -deep, -anysize, -rwany are deprecated. Just type "sfk ftpserv -rw" to allow full read/write access to the current folder.
CHG: SFK STAT SYNTAX CHANGE: -minsize=100 now means 100 bytes, but no longer 100 megabytes. use -minsize=100m to specify megabytes, or -minsize=1g to list files larger 1 gbyte. change was done to be consistent with general -minsize option used with other commands.
CHG: SFK FTPSERV -MAXSIZE SYNTAX CHANGE: -maxsize=100 now means 100 bytes, and the smallest limit allowed is 1m for 1 megabyte. default is no size limit.
CHG: SFK FTPSERV with SFK FTP client: - improved transfer of file attributes. esp. between linux machines (rwx of owner etc.) - "dir" now lists real file attributes as on disk, no matter if server runs with -rw or not. - older sft clients may no longer list dir names as they incorrectly expect "-" in the attribs. - no longer listing text/binary infos per file for better listing performance.
CHG: SFK FTPSERV major rework: - now accepts commands case insensitive. - optional user name configuration. - support for commands to change dir, create dir, delete file or dir, list sub directory contents. should now work better with some ftp clients.
FIX: SFK FTP CLIENT: mget .ext, mput .ext didn't work.
FIX: ftp client: correct display of multi line replies.
CHG: sfk ftp client: interactive mode no longer verbose by default.
chg: sfk wget single file download no longer tries to use caching via TEMP folder.
CHG: info text color changed as it was unreadable under windows with black shell background. - add: sfk ftpserv: rmtree command.
ADD: sfk select -minsize=3m -maxsize=10m mydir ... to list or process only files within the given size range.
ADD: sfk media, cut and join video and binary files.
ADD: sfk touch, change times of file(s).
ADD: sfk filetime, list times of a file.
AD: sfk license, print the license text.
FIX: sfk echo foo +filter "$col1" showed no error.
FIX: sfk udpsend to multicast: get ownhost failed.
FIX: sfk stat dirname .mask always told "0 files".
FIX: sfk replace (variable length) in readonly file: produced memory leak error.
FIX: copy under linux: empty (zero) access times may have been set to random values in output.

New in Swiss File Knife 1.6.6 (Oct 9, 2012)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.6.5 Revision 4 (Jul 14, 2012)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.6.5 Revision 3 (Jul 14, 2012)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.6.5 Revision 2 (Jun 4, 2012)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.6.5 (Mar 1, 2012)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.6.4 (Nov 14, 2011)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.6.3 Revision 4 (Nov 7, 2011)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.6.3 Revision 3 (Oct 14, 2011)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.6.3 (Sep 27, 2011)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.6.2 Revision 2 (Aug 29, 2011)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.6.2 (Aug 7, 2011)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.6.1 (Jun 19, 2011)

add: sfk file transfer: SFT protocol 103 no longer uses md5 verify by default for faster transfer. It is assumed that TCP mechanisms below provide checksum verifications already. to use verify now, specify option -verify at the client.
add: multi file transfer: no. of seconds info.
add: sfk sftserv -rwany: alias for -rw -anysize -deep.
add: sfk filter -tabform to split and reformat tab separated data easily.
add: sfk list: option -flattime to list filetimes in a compact format like YYYYMMDD hhmmss for better post processing.
add: sfk list: option -tabs to separate columns produced by -time and -size with tab characters, for post processing by +filter -tabform ...
add: sfk list: help example on how to rename all.jpg in a folder to include their file time.
CHG: invalid time representation: whenever a time was unreadable or not calculated, it was shown as "99991231235959" or "9999-12-31 23:59:59". The new display for invalid time stamps is "19000100000000" or "1900-01-00 00:00:00".
CHG: sfk detab: now skips files larger than the default memory limit (300 MB). use option -memlimit=n to detab larger text files.
add: sfk detab: handling of general options like -nowarn for more quiet operation.
fix: sfk filter -cut * to pattern: if pattern was not found, produced empty text. now this is detected, and either the file is not rewritten at all, or processing is stopped. option -nocheck enforces old behaviour.
fix: sfk dupfind: stopped at first unreadable file. now it skips those files and continues.
fix: sfk dupfind: added out of memory checks.
fix: missing out of memory message on creation of many file objects in memory.
fix: sfk detab: text files containing NULL bytes after the first 4 kbytes were truncated, now they are skipped.
fix: sfk file transfer: unexpected forbidden path by ftp server due to ".." within path names.
fix: sfk replace: wrong info display for >2 billion hits.
fix: some help text typos.
fix: added parameter check for internal functions.
opt: sfk file receive with verify: checksum was calculated twice, wasting cpu time.
del: deprecated functions synctext, maptext removed.

New in Swiss File Knife 1.5.8 (Nov 5, 2010)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.5.7 (Aug 2, 2010)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.5.6 (Jan 31, 2010)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.5.5 (Sep 1, 2009)

add: sfk filter -form "$count" or "$(count+n)"
to insert the output line numer with an
optional offset that is added.
add: sfk filter -form "$()" format with brackets
to work around parameter collisions
within sfk scripts.
add: apple mac experimental binary build.
define MAC_OS_X whenever compiling on mac.
define MAC_OS_X_PPC or MAC_OS_X_I686 to have
the cpu type included in the version info.
add: sfk ftpserv: now showing own ip under windows.
add: sfk make-random-file -text: text file contents
are now more randomly with varying line lengths.
add: sfk loop help text, and listing in main help.
add: sfk md5: option -verbose to list execution time.
add: sfk md5: performance improvement.
add: sfk filter: help section "common errors."
add: sfk treesize, an alias for sfk stat.
add: better error output on network errors.
add: sfk ftpserv, ftp client help text solution
on windows 7 connection blockings.
chg: changed SFK_IO_BLOCK_SIZE to 10 MB,
which is still far below the Windows 60 MB limit.
fix: sfk ftpserv: now produces a speaking error
if user connects with http protocol.
fix: -fileset using "names with blanks" did't work.
now such names can be used with double quotes.
fix: sfk list -withdirs/-justdirs -dir a -file b :
the file mask was ignored, the command always
listed all directories. now, IF file masks are
given, then list only the names of directories
containing at least one matching file.
fix: sfk list -withdirs -since ... : did list all
directories ignoring the -since option.
fix: sfk windows: list on UNC paths' root dir failed,
e.g. sfk list \anyhost ootdir
now using GetFileAttributesEx in that case.
fix: sfk split: failed on ext2 partitions,
and probably with all network files,
due to windows bug on file read blocks > 60 MB.
now ALL fread/fwrite calls are mapped to calls
that use smaller blocks for I/O.
fix: some root directories on mounted filesystems were
skipped due to wrong interpretation as duplicates,
as they had the same inode number. now the st_dev
number is also taken for file identification.
fix: additional buffer safety in ProgressInfo output.
fix: now blocking some signals like SIGPIPE that stopped
a linux sfk server if the client closed connection.
fix: missing shutdown on socketclose may have lead
to missing data at the end of some tcp connections.

New in Swiss File Knife 1.5.3 (Jan 24, 2009)

New in Swiss File Knife 1.4.5 (Dec 27, 2007)