wadcat: command-line tool to see what's in a WAD file

[JadingTsunami]

I thought I'd post this as it has proven very useful for me, but I am not sure if anyone else would find it so.

 

The situation is this: You download a WAD but don't know what is inside it (which map(s), etc.). wadcat can tell you.

$ wadcat -qm test.wad
MAP10

 

Or maybe you are doing a community project and want to replace the flat SLIME16, but don't know if anyone has used it. wadcat + grep can tell you.

$ wadcat -S maps.wad  | grep SLIME16
Sector | Floor  | Ceil   | FTex     | CTex     | Light  | Spc    | Tag
    68 |     -4 |    128 | SLIME16  | CEIL3_5  |    160 |      0 |      0
    71 |     -4 |     80 | SLIME16  | DEM1_4   |    160 |      0 |      0

 

Or you want to know how many Chaingunners are in your map.

$ wadcat -t map.wad  | cut -f5 -d\| | grep 65 | wc -l
      18

 

And so on.

 

If you answered these with "well I could just open it in SLADE3/DoomBuilder/etc.", then you don't need this tool. :)

 

If it sounds interesting to you, the source is here. It is USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. I have done very little testing so far (it was really just made in haste for my personal usage). But if there is interest I will update it more.

Edited June 22, 2021 by JadingTsunami

[Doomkid]

This is really cool!

[Shepardus]

Single-file program outputting information in a greppable format, that's what I like to see! I can see myself using this to dig into wads, especially since I'm a noob at using SLADE3/DB.