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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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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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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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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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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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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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