Useful Utility Programs for ASCII based Qucs sch and lib files

[tomhajjar]

I have thousands of Qucs, Qucs-S and QucsStudio examples. Trying to locate examples using a specific function or analysis from these large collections of files is very difficult. Also identifying differences between two files that should be identical or files that have "corrupt" line/device formats or characters between sch and lib files while using Qucs is difficult.

Since Qucs uses an ASCII text based file format for sch and lib files, I use multiple Utility Programs to find Qucs examples using a specific function or keyword, identify "corrupt" line/device formats or improper character sets and identify differences between sch and lib files.

I use Grep the most to locate keywords in sch and lib files. dnGrep will also search Qucs PDF documents.
I use FileDiff to point out differences between sch and lib files that Qucs doesn't show
Windows File manager has a horrible search function. I use Everything Search. It is 100x faster as well
I use Encoding Checker to convert Spice Models into a compatible format. This is not uncommon with LTspice model files
n2ncopy will copy a file to multiple folders. Useful when I alter a file I know is in multiple folders.

The above files are very useful for LTspice as well. The amount of user created files that are "deficient" is frustrating....