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Wget GNU wget is a free software package for retrieving files using HTTP, HTTPS and FTP, the most widely-used Internet protocols. It is a non-interactive commandline tool, so it may easily be called from scripts, cron jobs, terminals without X-Windows support, etc. hot vcprompt vcprompt prints a short string, to be included in your shell prompt, with barebones information about the current working directory for various version control systems. new herold Herold converts HTML files to DocBook files. s6-linux-utils s6-linux-utils is a set of minimalistic Linux-specific system utilities. Skulker Skulker is a rules-based tool designed for Log and Temporary File Management. It provides detailed and summary reports of managed file space, and includes accurately tracks the amount of save disk space and even supports a "dry-run" mode for testing new rules. ua ua is a simple command line tool that finds sets of identical files. The name is derived from the Hungarian word ugyanaz, meaning the same. The development of ua was motivated by the disturbingly often recurring event of waiting too long for a shell script using sorts, md5sums, diffs, and the like to finish finding identical files. udevil udevil is a command line Linux program which mounts and unmounts removable devices without a password, shows device info, and monitors device changes. ui ui is a user information utility that can display user information, list users from a given UID (or UID 500 by default), add a user to a group, rename a user along with his home directory and update his home directory files to reflect that change, list expired or locked users, change the shell for a user, and list users in an existing group. umv umv renames existing users, changing their home directory and updating all system files. It also searches the users home directory for configuration files and changes the path information in them as well. It keeps a log of the files changed for each user. Undelete Utilities Undelete Utilities provides undelete capabilities for the Extended-2 Filesystem in Linux. unieject unieject is a drop-in replacement for usual eject command, which works on Linux and FreeBSD. It has more functionalities than FreeBSD's eject command, and it's partially compatible with Linux's one. Unpack automates the process of extracting source tarballs to a fixed location, by default $HOME/src or /tmp, after first checking that the tarball will create its own subdirectory unrm unrm is a small shell utility which can, under some circumstances, recover almost 99% of your erased data. uschedule uschedule is not cron and uschedule is not at - it does offer similar functionality, but is not intended to be a drop-in replacement. It works differently. It?s designed to be different. userinfo Userinfo is a console utility to display a variety of information about a local user. It uses loadable modules to perform different tasks which separate the output with a field deliminator. Some may find it useful in shell scripts to gather information which might be tedious by other methods. utfout utfout is a command-line tool that can produce UTF-8 (Unicode) strings in various ways and direct them to standard output, standard error or direct to the terminal without the need for shell support. VeryNice VeryNice is a tool for dynamically adjusting the nice-level of processes under UNIX-like operating systems. It can also be used to kill off runaway processes and increase the priority of multimedia applications, while properly handling both batch computation jobs and interactive applications with long periods of high CPU usage. Virt-df Virt-df is a df implementation for virtual guests. The program is meant to be run on the host or dom0 to display disk space used and available on all partitions within all guests. There is no need to run any software or agent inside the guests. It is compatible with most Linux and Windows guests. Virt-top Virt-top is a top-like utility for showing statistics of virtualized domains. Many keys and command line options are the same as for ordinary top. It uses libvirt, so it is capable of showing statistics across a variety of different virtualization systems. vmanpg vmanpg is an svgalib-based pager designed for viewing man pages, which shows them in much the same way as `xman'. vn-console Vietnamese language support on the linux console; VISCII 1.1 vietnamese fonts & keymaps for the Linux console; filter for manipulating and converting vietnamese text in various formats, including sortable format. volcheck volcheck is a functional port of the Solaris volcheck program to Linux. The code is written from scratch. waitclose waitclose is a trivially simple program that is useful in scripts that need to wait for a user to insert cdroms. If the disc drive is empty it will eject it. waitmax Waitmax is a small command line utility that executes a program in a new process. If that process does not exit withing a certain time, it is killed with the TERM signal. The precompiled RPM runs on all i386-based systems. It contains a version of waitmax that is statically linked with diet and does not need libc or any other library. WCD Wcd is a program to change directory fast. It saves time typing at the keyboard. One needs to type only a part of a directory name and wcd will jump to it. By default wcd searches for a directory with a name that begins with what has been typed, but the use of wildcards is also fully supported. WeedIt weedit is a file duplicate scanner with database support. It uses CRC32, MD5, and file size to scan for duplicates. Files that are deleted are automatically removed from the database when a duplicate is found. It will only rescan files if the creation time or last write time change. It will only delete duplicated files if the parameter for deleting is used. wgrab wgrab is an http file fetcher similar to wget that is designed to be small, fast, and cross platform compatible natively. The compiled wgrab is approximately 1/10th the size of wget, making it ideal for distributions like DSL and other miniature distros whatpix whatpix is a small perl program which keeps a database of MD5 checksums of files. It was written to supplement Usenet binary decoders (such as 'aub'), in that they (usually) indiscriminately download files you already have. which Which is a utility that prints out the full path of the executables that bash would execute when the passed program names would have been entered on the shell prompt. whohas whohas is a command line tool that allows querying several package lists at once - currently supported are Arch, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware (and linuxpackages.net), Source Mage, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Fink and DarwinPorts. Whowatch Whowatch is an interactive who-like program that displays information about the users currently logged on to the machine, in real time. wmtheme wmtheme is a command-line program to manage window manager themes. Working Directory Working Directory lets you store a handful of commonly used directories in short, easy to type slots. It is intended for terminal users who deal with deep or scattered directory structures. It requires only perl and bash. wtail wtail does the equivalent of tail -f on several files at once. wtch wtch periodically runs a shell command COMMAND and watches its output. When it changes it runs shell command ACTION. xbiso xbiso is an iso extraction utillity for xdvdfs images. xclip xclip is a command line utility that provides an interface to the X selection (the clipboard) from the command line. xclose xclose is a simple console tool which will allow you to close all the top-level windows in your X session which match a particular pattern. xdf ( the exquisite df ) xdf ( exquisite df ) - a souped-up version of df(1), offering flexible field, units, and filesystem type selection and a choice of output layouts and formats, that runs on Unix, Linux, BSD, and Cygwin. Xin Xin reads from standard input splitting the data up into sections. Each section is piped into a command separately. xjobs xjobs reads job descriptions line by line and executes them in parallel. It limits the number of parallel executing jobs and starts new jobs when jobs finish. Therefore, it combines the arguments from every input line with the utility and arguments given on the command line. If no utility is given as an argument to xjobs, then the first argument on every job line will be used as utility. To execute utility xjobs searches the directories given in the PATH environment variable and uses the first file found in these directories. zshist zshist is a simple python script to read .zsh_history written with EXTENDED_HISTORY option, and display the timestamp in a human-readable format. As a bonus it can colourise the output.
