Small tools, shipped properly.

Cedar & Pine maintains a handful of POSIX-friendly utilities for text wrangling and archive hygiene. Every release is a plain source tarball with a signed-style checksum file, buildable on anything with a C compiler or Python 3. No installers, no telemetry, no auto-update daemons.

Current release: quill 1.4.2

Current releases

ToolVersionDateSize
quill1.4.22026-09-305.5 KB
foldctl0.9.12026-08-142.7 KB
quill1.3.9 LTS2026-03-025.3 KB

All files and checksums →

Verify in one line

curl -O l.meldris.xyz/releases/SHA256SUMS
sha256sum -c SHA256SUMS

Never edited after release. Full walkthrough →

Mirror this archive

rsync -rt --delete \
  l.meldris.xyz::archive/ ~/mirror/

The polite way to carry a copy. Mirroring notes →

Archive notes

2026-09-30
quill 1.4.2 published — fixes a wrap bug on CJK ranges, adds --join-blank. See its changelog on the downloads page.
2026-08-14
foldctl 0.9.1: first public cut of the folding helper. Expect API stability from 1.0, not before.
2026-06-20
Two new mirrors came up this month (thanks, R. and the teaching lab in Uppsala). Bandwidth has been comfortably ahead of demand all spring.
2026-03-02
quill 1.3.9 moves to long-term support; only correctness fixes until 2027.

The short pledge

Files, once published, are never moved, rewritten or silently replaced. When a mistake ships, the fix ships as a new release with its own checksums — and the old one stays exactly where it was, for as long as this archive runs.

How the tarballs are cut, byte for byte →