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: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 xkyanh@gmail.com 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 xkyanh@gmail.com. All feedback are welcome. ----------------------------------------------------------------------

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 .