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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: ps

We explore free and open source alternatives to ps, a command that reports a snapshot of the current processes.

procs is a replacement for ps. It has cross-platform support running under Linux and Windows, with experimental support for macOS.

pstree shows the currently running processes as a tree. This is free and open source software written in the C programming language.

fuser identifies processes using files or sockets. It’s written in the C programming language and published under the GPL.

lsfd is intended to be a modern replacement for lsof on Linux systems. It’s free and open source software written in C.

We explore free and open source alternatives to lsof, a utility that lists file information about files opened by processes.

fend is an arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator. fend supports a few different output formats. It’s free and open source software.

bcal (Byte CALculator) is a REPL CLI utility for storage expression evaluation, SI/IEC conversion, byte address calculation, and more.

kalc is a complex numbers, 2d/3d graphing, arbitrary precision, CLI calculator with real-time output. It’s written in Rust.

clac is a command line, stack-based calculator with postfix notation that displays the stack contents at all times.