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Swift for CLI tools (traversing directories, reading text files)
To compare ergonomics and performance of some languages for my hobby projects, I have written a simple lines of code counter in Swift, Go, Rust and Python. It scans a given directory tree for source ...
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An improved sample C++/WinAPI malware program for Windows (includes the program that uninstalls it completely)
(See the GitHub repository for a Visual Studio (2022) solution/projects.)
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This malware does nothing more than install/uninstall ...
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A sample malware program for Windows (includes the program that uninstalls it completely)
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This time I was in the mood for the low level stuff. The entire repository is in GitHub. It includes the installer, the actual malware program, and the uninstaller that removes it completely ...
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File system regex searcher
This is my first Rust project (I'm primarily a C guy). I want to know if my code is properly idiomatic (Rusty?). Also, are there any inefficiencies?
The code defines an iterator (...
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Simplified simulation of Unix "ls" command made using C++ std::filesystem library
I have just implemented this while getting acquainted with the std::filesystem library.
On input from console, the program accepts two arguments: ...
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Parsing SFV files to extract and store the hashes
Similar to the class for the RAR file, now a class to extract and store the hashes from SFV files.
Though this was considerably easier, there has been some code reorganisation: there is now an ...
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lndir shell function - hardlink two directories
The code works, but I could use help testing it more comprehensively and double-checking that everything I'm doing makes sense, and that all the options can coexist with each other. I'm running into ...
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fsize: A Command-Line Tool for Checking File Sizes
I have created a cross-platform CLI tool to quickly retrieve file size and present it to the user in different units of data. The whole program is written in C and for Windows Win32 API is used to ...
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Getting information about a RAR file's content
The first lines of the rarpath module (see here for context, the rest is not used here):
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Sorting file names of a RAR split archive (v3 and v5)
This simple task of sorting a list of related RAR files of a split archive turned out to be more cumbersome than expected, since there are two versions of the RAR naming scheme, v3 and v5.
v3 is like ...
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C++20 Robust File Interface
I'm working on a homebrew game engine in C++20. I needed a robust, minimal-overhead, and easy way to load files into memory. I ended up with this: a simple, easy file loader. It doesn't have many ...
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Photo Reduction Tool version 2 - Possible reinvention of the wheel
The code is a Linux command line photo size reduction tools. It reduces the size of all the photos in a directory. It may work on Windows 10, but it has not been built or tested on Windows. It takes ...
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Resize 200 photos quickly in C++ using opencv
I have about 200 photos that I need to up load to a WordPress website. When I tried up loading the second one I got an error message that the file was too wide. Apparently WordPress limits the width ...
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Read a helpfiles textfile or potentially delete one if given an argument that's in the list
I'm working on a MUD (multiplayer text game), and the helpfile system adds missing helpfiles (ones that are looked for but don't exist) in the following format, including the room number, character ...
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Function for listing processes holding a specified file open
The function's prototype is:
int processes_using(const char *name, pid_t pidlist[], int size)
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