@hackage / swiss-army-knife

A collection of small tools to make life a bit easier for the command-line.

Latest1.1.0.5

Changelog

1.1.0.5 - 2026-07-11

  • Made build static to get around dynamic mixmatch issues with GHC versions.
  • Static made optional for Hackage installs.

1.1.0.4 - 2026-07-01

  • Adjusted cabal version to be lower for better coverage.
  • GHC2021 for better coverage

Added

  • Cross-distro sak kernel command
    • Now works on Arch, Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Pop!OS, Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux, and AlmaLinux
    • Detects running kernel via uname -r
    • Shows installed kernels using the native package manager (pacman, dpkg-query, or rpm)
    • Graceful handling when optional kernel packages (e.g. linux-lts) are not installed

Changed

  • Knives.Kernel module is now fully distribution-agnostic
  • Cleaner output formatting with proper newlines
  • More robust command execution (no crashes on missing packages)

Fixed

  • Trailing newlines from readProcess
  • Ambiguous exception type error on GHC 9.14

1.0.0.1 and earlier

Versions

  • 1.1.0.0 - Hackage release, renamed to swiss-army-knife (dropping the "-hs" from the name. AUR will pull from Hackage instead. of GitHub.

  • 1.0.0.1 - enable and disable daemons, wg -l list has an extra field.

    • Changelog.org removed. Basically a duplication of Versions here.
    • version 1.0.0.0 was stillborn. Installation issues fixed

  • 0.1.0.4 - fix for install issues with 0.1.0.3

  • 0.1.0.3 - 2 new feature, internally invokes sudo, adopted "standard" for 4 number versioning X.Y.Z.W:

    # Description
    X Major version (breaking changes)
    Y Minor version (new features)
    Z Patch version (bug fixes)
    W Build or revision number (specific iteration)

    So from now on, this will be applied.

  • 0.0.1.1 - new feature added

  • 0.0.0.2 - bug fixes