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The Swiss File Knife is a multi-function command line tool, designed to avoid the need to install many other small tools.
With SFK, you can instantly

- find and extract text in binary files
- list dir tree sizes
- filter and replace text
- run an instant ftp server
- find duplicate files
- join many text files into one
- create and verify md5 checksum lists
- run a self-defined command on many files
- remove TAB characters from text
- create hexdumps from files
- trace contents of a tcp connection
- find dependencies between files
- print colored text to terminal
- locate commands in path
- print last lines of a file
- convert hex to binary
- convert binary to source code
- convert CR/LF line endings
- split and join large files
as well as other functions.

no installation, registry spamming, DLL's etc., all open source.

just download the .exe from
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=160478
(or the .zip, if you're interested in the source code)

further documentation is available under
http://stahlworks.com/dev/swiss-file-knife.html

binaries are provided for win98 and later, as well as linux.

SFK - The Swiss File Knife - *Update*
Release 1.5.9 Base of Jan 16 2011

SFK - The Swiss File Knife File Tree Processor ~ *Update*
Release 1.6.0 Base of Mar 21 2011.
StahlWorks Art & Technology, http://stahlworks.com/dev/swiss-file-knife.html
Distributed for free under the BSD License, without any warranty.

SFK - The Swiss File Knife File Tree Processor - Update.

Release 1.7.2 Base/XD of Jul 14 2014.

SFK for windows binaries (XP/Vista/7) : http://stahlworks.com/dev/sfk/sfk.exe

__philippe

SFK's a great multi-platform tool, no doubt about it.

Nonetheless, and according to local custom (and TPFC's FAQ, http://www.portablefreeware.com/faq.php#six), the present topic would be better placed in the "Resources and Links" forum...

Midas wrote:Nonetheless...the present topic would be better placed in the "Resources and Links" forum...

Amen to that...

Add my vote for the "Powers That Be" to relocate this "Swiss File Knife" topic
(created way back when in AD 2008, and quietly dormant ever since) to wherever it rightfully belongs.

May it rest in peace therein...

__philippe

__philippe wrote:relocate this "Swiss File Knife" topic to wherever it rightfully belongs

All set.

SFK - The Swiss File Knife File Tree Processor - Update.

Release 1.7.4 Base/XD of Feb 9-2015.

SFK for windows binaries (XP/Vista/7) : http://stahlworks.com/dev/sfk/sfk.exe

__philippe

Swiss File Knife v1.7.6 is released (changelog is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/swissfi ... ife/1.7.6/).

author of http://stahlworks.com/dev/swiss-file-knife.html wrote:Swiss File Knife combines many functions in a single, portable executable that belongs onto every USB stick. Search and convert text files, instant simple FTP/HTTP server, find duplicate files, compare folders, treesize, run own commands on all files of a folder -- it's all within a single tool.

Midas wrote:Swiss File Knife v1.7.6 is released (changelog is at http://sourceforge.net/projects/swissfi ... ife/1.7.6/).

The version that stahlworks released is 1.7.5, not 1.7.6. 1.7.6 is what stahlworks calls the "head version". Head version is a kind of a development snapshot.

When 1.7.6 became the head version, the last 1.7.5 build became the 1.7.5 release. 1.7.6 lives: as the readme mentions, stahlworks may replace the 1.7.6 downloads with a newer build at any time (until 1.7.7 or 1.8.0 or whatever becomes the head version).

Whoa, I get it (I think?). Then v1.7.5 is released, right?

Good tool. Use it all the time.

Midas wrote:Whoa, I get it (I think?). Then v1.7.5 is released, right?

Yes.

SFK - The Swiss File Knife File Tree Processor.
Release 1.7.6 Base/XD Revision 2 of Feb 19 2016.

Is their website download link: http://stahlworks.com/dev/sfk/sfk.exe considered the 'Release' as indicated?
Their SourceForge page for 1.7.6 still has the 'Head Version' notice...

~Ruby

@Ruby:

As of 06-MAY-2016, both the Stahlworks and SourceForge current "sfk.exe" versions, run without any parameter, return the same header: __philippe