zos-code-page-tools

A set of zos code pages tools, handy for conversion from codepages such as EBCDIC and ASCII

Usage example:

tagfile -q -r dir/ files ....

  set file tag of files based on detected file content
  -d: do not tag anything, just dry run, exit 0 if tagging is not necessary
  -q, quiet operation
  -h, this information
  -r, recurse subdirectory
  -u, tag UTF-8 files with 1208 instead of 819
  -b, do not tag binary files. 

utf8-verify -i [input file] -o [output file] -u

  With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
   -i,  input file name to read, '-' read standard input
   -o,  output file name to write to with converted multiple characters to ascii C
        \uxxxx (fixed-length, 4 hex digits) and \Uxxxxxxxx (fixed-length, 8 hex digits)
   -u,  convert to U+(xxxx | xxxxx | xxxxxx) form instead of the C notation
   -v,  verbose

cat2 < inputfile

(some process ) | cat2

  With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
  -o [logfile]             save raw input to file [logfile]
  --help                   show this dialog
  -help                    show this dialog
  -a                       output in ASCII
  -e                       output in EBCDIC
  -2                       output in file descriptor 2 (stderr)

cat2 would try to display file content in readable text, converting a mix of EBCDIC and ASCII lines.

cat2 -o rawdata.txt f - g

  Convert f's contents, then standard input,
  then g's contents to terminal, input data saved in rawdata.txt.

cat2

  Convert standard input to standard output

aeconv -a2e [files ...]

Convert from ascii (ccsid 819) to ebcdic (ccsid 1047)

aeconv -e2a [files ...]

Convert from ebcdic (ccsiaed 1047) to ascii (ccsid 819)

note: aeconv conversion is done in-place, i.e. it is destructive (no temp file is created)

To build:

make

The executables are placed in objs/