Design: new package "SynoCli file"

[ymartin59]

Create a package for small command line utilities dedicated to file manipulation.
Revival of #2261
Tools candidates:

• less Add less #2075, Less package -- Initial version 487. #2818
• Tree Tree #3242
• fdupes Add fdupes package #2257 or jdupes Add package 'jdupes' #3030
• RHash [Package Request] rhash #2823 added RHash #2944
• mc
• nano

Potential extension (TBD):

• rmlint [Package Request] rmlint #3482 (proposed by cytec) <- Requires scons build package (python3 based)
• detox detox package addition #2199

Not to be included:

• coreutils cross package as almost all commands available already or installable via synogear install
• rename (proposed by adithyabenny) <-- Part of linux-util package. Maybe later as part of a separate package.

Package icon: Kindly provided by @publicarray. Many thanks!

[MrSpoocy]

mc ;)

[hgy59]

@MrSpoocy mc is not a command line tool IMHO
I would like to keep the SynoCli packages small.

[ghost]

I cannot wait for these SynoCli packages. I missed them since the Bootstrap days. Thank you so much!

[ymartin59]

I also would like to provide "entware" first... to avoid to introduce (new) duplicated tools in spksrc

[m4tt075]

Chaps, I just remembered the "synogear" package, which is actually provided by Synology. See
http://www.synology-wiki.de/index.php/Synogear:_weitere_Tools
for documentation and the list of commands included (only on German, but I did not find another source). We could provide an English translation on our Wiki page and refer to it. Not sure it covers everything, but I feel a lot of the tools requested. Just for consideration...

[ymartin59]

@m4tt075 Thanks for the hint. Here it is: https://github.com/SynoCommunity/spksrc/wiki/FAQ-synogear
Interesting because some tools are painful to build... but some will complain most tools versions are quite old.

[jbruchon]

I'm the maintainer of jdupes and the one who opened #3030. I'd like to voice my support for integrating jdupes by whatever means is necessary. A Synology user requested my effort to make an SPK for it 4 months ago and I've had other users since express interest in it for their NASes. As far as the age concern, I maintain the code regularly and try to be responsive to issue reports. If I need to do anything to assist in inclusion, please let me know how I can help.

[cytec]

rmlint #3482

[acherunilam]

rename? I use it often to batch rename files with a regex.

[m4tt075]

@AdithyaBenny I'm looking into your request, but am struggling to find source code for the rename command you mention. Is there some official source? Where can I find it?

@cytec rmlint seems to use scons, some non-standard build system I'm not familiar with, which depends on python3 which I'm not familiar with. I'll keep this as possible extension for the future for now. Anyways, if you are interested and you have some time, please do look at it.

[acherunilam]

@m4tt075 The official source I believe is at CPAN over here, but that doesn't have a direct URL to the version control repo, so the Debian mirror over here should do.

[m4tt075]

@AdithyaBenny Yikes! Tried to make rename work today, got the package, got it built in our framework, got it to install into the $(STAGING_INSTALL_PREFIX) directory, everything looks nice. But I'm not able to integrate the required module files into the perl version that is running on the NAS. perl just cannot find them in @INC. Found some advice how to deal with this on the internet. Everything failed. perl is driving me crazy! Isn't there something like that, which has been written in C?

[m4tt075]

rhash has been broken and (hopefully) fixed (could only test x64 platform), rename (perl) has been added.
New test builds here: https://github.com/m4tt075/spksrc/releases/tag/synoclifile-3
Please test and report back.

[m4tt075]

@publicarray I've temporarily included your "SynoCLI" icon without any text. Could you please create one for this "SynoCLI-File" package, like the one you have created for "SynoCLI-Net"?

[publicarray]

Hi @m4tt075,
Should be easy enough. I have a svg file which is easy to edit in Inkskape, Adobe Illustrator, Affinity Designer, etc.

Here is the requested png:

[acherunilam]

@m4tt075 There is indeed a C variant of rename that ships with util-linux. Here's the source repo, and here's more info on the package.

[m4tt075]

@publicarray I really suck with graphics stuff. I don't even know what svg files are. So many thanks for doing it! ;-)
@AdithyaBenny Cool. We have a cross package for util-linux already and can reuse it. Happy to integrate it. Just seen that it contains all kind of CLI tools, which brings me to the next question:
@ymartin59 Anything other than rename from util-linux you'd want to integrate into our SynoCLI-file (or other SynoCLI-*) packages?

[ymartin59]

@m4tt075 Interesting question... some commands are already provided by DSM. But according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Util-linux it is difficult to only select "files related tools". I think util-linux is included in "test disk" for fsck and partitioning tools.
Here are some I often use as a "old-style-Unixer": cal, column, fallocate, hexdump, script, scriptreplay
I just wonder if it would not make sense to deliver most of them in a dedicated "util-linux" package.

[m4tt075]

@ymartin59 I agree. A lot of those tools probably also are not necessarily required by typical Synology users. Let's keep those separate.
@AdithyaBenny, that would mean that we'll keep rename out of the official package for now. Hope that's fine for you. If you want, let me know your DS platform and firmware version, and I'll build a package with the perl rename version for you. I've spent a lot of time implementing it. So it can at least benefit you... ;-)

[ymartin59]

@m4tt075 Just find it in package listing, please include ncdu in synocli-file.

[acherunilam]

let me know your DS platform and firmware version, and I'll build a package with the perl rename version for you

@m4tt075 That would be great, thank you so much! My arch is apollolake.

[ymartin59]

Working on applications update, testing and packaging...

[ymartin59]

Many thanks to all contributors for this package !
Published.
Available from Package Center or https://synocommunity.com/package/synocli-file