CTAN has a new package: ctan.tools

[CTAN Announcements]

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: 
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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 at 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 at gmail.com>. All feedback are welcome.
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   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 
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Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .