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Command Schedulers

systemd – array of system components

August 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

systemd is a suite of basic building blocks for a Linux system. It’s free and open source software written in C.

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Network Security

knockson – simple multi-threaded port scanner

August 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

knockson is a simple multi-threaded port scanner. It’s written in the Rust programming language and published under the MIT License.

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Network Security

MASSCAN – mass IP port scanner

August 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

MASSCAN is an Internet-scale port scanner. It can scan the entire Internet in under 5 minutes, transmitting 10 million packets per second.

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Network Security

naabu – fast port scanner

August 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

naabu is a fast port scanner written with a focus on reliability and simplicity.

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Network Security

RustScan – modern port scanner

August 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

RustScan is a modern take on the port scanner. Sleek and fast in operation. All while providing extensive extendability.

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Network Security

unimap – scan only once by IP address

August 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Scan only once by IP address and reduce scan times with Nmap for large amounts of data with unimap.

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Network Security

ZMap – fast single packet network scanner

August 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

ZMap is a fast single-packet network scanner optimized for Internet-wide network surveys.

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Kronos Is A Terminal Music Player Written in Rust

August 2, 2023 Luke Baker CLI, Multimedia, Reviews, Software

Kronos is a terminal-based music player that’s designed for playing locally stored audio files. It’s written in Rust.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: strings

August 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

Alternative tools to strings, a utility that prints the sequences of printable characters in files.

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stringsext – search for multi-byte encoded strings in binary data

August 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

stringsext is a Unicode enhancement of the strings tool with additional functionalities.

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Documentation

sad – Space Age seD

July 28, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sad is a batch file edit tool. It will show you a really nice diff of proposed changes before you commit them.

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Utilities

45 Outstanding Linux Utilities to Maximize your Productivity

July 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Desktop, Productivity, Utilities

This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential utilities. These are small, indispensable tools, useful for anyone running a Linux machine.

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Utilities

Excellent Utilities: pastel – generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors

July 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software, Utilities

pastel is a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. This tool supports a variety of color formats and color spaces.

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Documentation

ccat – colorizing cat

July 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting. Written in Go.

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Weather image

tempy – visually pleasing weather report

July 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Scientific

tempy will render a simple, visually pleasing weather report for current and near-future conditions to your terminal.

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touche – touch command

July 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

touche is a Rust implementation of the touch utility. This tool was inspired by bonk, another Rust implementation.

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bonk – fast touch alternative

July 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bonk is billed as a blazingly fast touch alternative with a sprinkle of mkdir. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: touch – change file timestamps

July 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to touch, a command to change file timestamps.

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Subtitles

subedit – command-line subtitle editor

July 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

subedit is a command-line subtitle editor written in Bash. The script generally works with srt (SubRip) and sub (MicroDVD) subtitle files.

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htmlq – like jq but for html

July 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

htmlq is like jq, but for HTML. It uses CSS selectors to extract bits of content from HTML files. This is free and open source software.

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