Files in this directory

Name	Date	Size		Description
FILELIST	2008-05-24	61 bytes	download
INSTALL	2008-05-23	244 bytes	download
Makefile	2008-05-23	405 bytes	download
README	2008-05-24	2 Kbyte	download	Shown below
SCRIPT	2008-05-20	748 bytes	download
ctan	2008-05-24	8 Kbyte	download
ctan_dump_files	2008-05-23	110 bytes	download

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Contents of the README file

ABOUT

	This small tool is used to seach/download some LaTeX packages that were listed in CTAN:
		http://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/
	or search/download any files in
		http://ctan.org/tex-archive/.

	Since version 1.0.1 the tool uses the cache file
		http://kyanh.net/ctan.tools//cache.tbz
	This file contains the list of all files in CTAN. It's updated daily by a cron job hosted
	by http://kyanh.net/. The size of file is about 400k.

	The tool requires wget, lynx, gawk, wc, tar/bzip and sed program to run correctly.
	Some linux distributions donot contain lynx by default and you must install lynx manually
	before running this script. So this tool requires a *nix-liked environment to work.
	texer <VietTUG> tested and reported that the tool worked fine in Cygwin environment.

	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
	1.1.0 2008/05/15: search files (use cache file)
	1.1.1 2008/05/15: fix bug (ctan_update)
	1.2.0 2008/05/16: smaller cache. Thanks to Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
	1.3.0 2008/05/23: everything is cached. Faster. New options. Thanks to texer at VietTUG
	1.3.1 2008/05/24: fix typo. lzma support

USAGE

	ctan about :	show all information about this tool
	ctan usage :	show usage
	ctan version :	show script version

	ctan update :	update using http://kyanh.net/ctan.tools//cache.tbz (450k)
	ctan update --direct :	update directly from CTAN. You are going to download 15MB
	ctan grep <string> :	search packages match <string>. grep ability is supported
	ctan get <string> :	download packages match <string> to working directory

	If you want to search files:

	ctan fgrep <string> :	search files.
	ctan fget <string> :	download files match <string> to working directory
	ctan grep -file <string>
	ctan get -file <string>

EXAMPLES

	ctan grep theorem	# search packages match 'theorem'
	ctan grep ^n	# search packages srated by 'n'
	ctan get ^n	# download packages started by 'n'
	ctan get -file contrib/ntheorem.zip
	ctan fget contrib/ntheorem.zip

	The result by '-file' option should be filtered

	ctan fgrep ntheorem | grep zip


TODO

	* package information supported
	* ability to select FTP mirror
	* search by package description,...
	* package build script

THANKS

	* Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>
	* Nguyen Van Hanh <hanhnguyenvan@gmail.com>

LICENSE

	This tool is published under LPPL.

BUGS
	Please report to kyanh <xkyanh@gmail.com>.

Small print: This listing is regenerated periodically so there is a small chance that the directory has changed from what is shown here; to be sure, check the FTP listing.