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rust-parallel – execute commands in parallel

rust-parallel is a command-line utility to execute commands in parallel and aggregate their output. It’s written in Rust.

Think of rargs as similar to xargs and awk with pattern-matching support. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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.