bfs is a variant of the UNIX find command that operates breadth-first rather than depth-first. It’s written in C.
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Category: CLI
bfind – minimalistic alternative to find
bfind is a minimalistic alternative to find that is designed to be efficient that locating files. Written in C.
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ffind – sane replacement for command line file search
ffind allows quick and easy recursive search for files in the command line. This is free and open source software.
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friendly-find – friendly file finder
friendly-find is the friendly file finder. It’s meant to be a more usable replacement for find. If you’ve used ack, then ffind is to find as ack is to grep.
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OpenRDAP – RDAP command line client
OpenRDAP is an command line RDAP client implementation in Go. RDAP is a replacement for WHOIS.
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ipwhois – retrieve and parse whois data for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
ipwhois is a Python package focused on retrieving and parsing whois data for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: whois
whois searches for an object in a RFC 3912 database. We spotlight alternative tools to whois.
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rdapper – simple console-based RDAP client
rdapper is a simple RDAP client. It uses Net::RDAP to retrieve data about internet resources. It’s written in Perl.
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jwhois – internet whois client
jwhois is an improved Whois client capable of selecting Whois server to query based on a flexible configuration file.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools for Linux
This series looks at alternatives to popular CLI tools. Many of them are classic commands that have been modernised in some way.
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