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parallel – shell tool for executing jobs in parallel

parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. This tool is written in Perl.

cli-chess is a command-line chess program that lets you play online against human players and offline against the computer.

We spotlight alternative tools to hexdump, a utility that displays file contents in hexadecimal, octal, or ascii.

xxd creates a hex dump of a given file or standard input. It can also convert a hex dump back to its original binary form.

uq is a simple, user-friendly alternative to sort | uniq. It removes duplicate lines from the output, regardless of the order.

The semiuniq program reads over lines of input and write lines of output that are “semi-unique” by eliminating repeated lines that are close.

We explore free and open source alternatives to uniq, a venerable utility that reports or omits repeated lines.

runiq offers an efficient way (in both time and space) to filter duplicate entries (lines) from textual input.

nauniq is similar to the Unix command uniq but detects repeated lines even if they are not adjacent. It’s written in Perl.

huniq remove duplicates from the given input. Note that huniq does not sort the input, it just removes duplicates.