The package below has been installed at tug.ctan.org and is working its
way through the system.
Thanks again,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: ctan.tools
Author's name: kyanh
Location on CTAN: /support/ctantools
Summary description: some *nix scripts to search, download latex package from
CTAN
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
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ABOUT
This small tool is used to seach some LaTeX packages that were listed
in CTAN:
http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/.
The tool requires wget, lynx, gawk, wc and sed program to run correctly.
Some linux distribution doesnot contains lynx by default
and you must install lynx manually before running ./ctan.
So this tool requires a *nix-liked environment to work.
This tool was written by kyanh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
kyanh is a member of Vietnamese TeX Users Group <http://viettug.org>.
VERSION
1.0.0 2008/05/11: first version
USAGE
ctan : show all information about this tool
ctan grep <string> : search packages match <string>. grep ability is
supported.
ctan update : update the package list (require lynx, wc and internet
connection).
ctan get <string> : download packages match <string> to working
directory (require wget).
EXAMPLES
ctan grep theorem # search for packages match "theorem"
ctan grep ^n # search for packages srated by "n"
ctan get ^n # download packages started by "n"
TODO
* package information supported
* ability to select FTP mirror
* search by filename, description,...
* package build script
LICENSE
This tool is published under LGPL.
BUGS
Feel free to contact kyanh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. All feedback are
welcome.
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This package is located at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/ctantools
. More information is at
http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/ctantools
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
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