Tapehead: CLI Tool for Stateful Random Access of File Streams
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Summary
Tapehead is a command-line utility (CLI) tool for stateful random access of file streams, allowing users to interactively read, write, and seek to any position within files. The tool was created by the developer when debugging a scull driver for a virtual character device, as they couldn't find existing tools for stateful file stream manipulation. It runs a REPL session for interactive file operations and is useful for debugging drivers and other file stream-related tasks.
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I wrote a shabby version of this when I was trying to debug my scull driver, which controls a simple virtual character device.
I was amazed I couldn't find a tool that allowed me to statefully seek, read and write to a file, so I just improvised some code.
It's quite useful for tasks like debugging a driver, or anything that has to do with file streams.
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