This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness.
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Category: CLI
Checkstyle – Java Code Quality Tool
Checkstyle is a tool that ensures adherence to a code standard or a set of best practices.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: stow
Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct sets of software and/or data located in separate directories on the filesystem.
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csvi – terminal CSV editor
CSVI is a terminal-based CSV editor for UNIX-like systems (including Linux) and Windows.
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trashy – fast and featureful alternative to rm
trashy is a simple, fast, and featureful alternative to rm and trash-cli written in Rust.
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zprint – reformat Clojure and Clojurescript source code
zprint is a library and command line tool providing pretty printing capabilities for both Clojure code and Clojure/EDN structures.
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MemProcFS – view physical memory as files in a virtual file system
MemProcFS is an easy and convenient way of viewing physical memory as files in a virtual file system.
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cljfmt – detect and fix formatting errors in Clojure code
cljfmt is a tool for detecting and fixing formatting errors in Clojure code .Its defaults are based on the Clojure Style Guide.
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oeis-tui – TUI and CLI for browsing the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
oeis-tui is a TUI and CLI for browsing the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) in the terminal.
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mommy – support tool
mommy processes (the output status of) a command and compliments you if the command succeeds and encourages you if it fails
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mouseless – mouse replacement and key remapper
mouseless lets you control the mouse pointer in Linux using the keyboard. It works across all Linux distributions, including those running Wayland.
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Muxly – lightweight, highly customizable CLI for managing tmux sessions
Muxly is a highly configurable Tmux Session Manager based on ThePrimeagen’s tmux-sessionizer script.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: free
free displays the total amount of free and used physical and swap memory in the system, as well as the buffers and caches used by the kernel.
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wisu – fast, minimalist directory tree viewer
wisu is fast, minimalist directory tree viewer, written in Rust, with a powerful interactive mode.
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14 Best Free and Open Source Terminal-Based SSH Frontends
This roundup focuses on terminal-based apps that help you manage and create SSH connections.
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checkpac – fast package checker for Arch
checkpac is a fast and simple package checking tool for Arch Linux. Find installed packages, check versions, and discover available packages
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Checker Framework – pluggable type-checking for Java
The Checker Framework enhances Java’s type system to make it more powerful and useful. This lets software developers detect and prevent errors
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EVTXtract – recovers and reconstructs fragments of EVTX log files
EVTXtract recovers and reconstructs fragments of EVTX log files from raw binary data, including unallocated space and memory images.
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xleak – Excel files in your terminal
xleak brings Excel spreadsheets to the terminal with beautiful rendering, powerful export capabilities, and a feature-rich interactive TUI.
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redumper – low-level byte-perfect CD disc dumper
redumper is a low-level byte-perfect CD disc dumper. It supports incremental dumps, advanced SCSI/C2 repair, and more.
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