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Category: CLI
Alternatives to popular CLI tools: telnet
This article spotlights alternative tools to telnet, a tool to login to a remote system.
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percol – interactive grep tool in your terminal
percol is an interactive grep tool in your terminal. This tool is written in the Python programming language and is open source software.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: talk
This article spotlights alternative tools to talk, a venerable talk client.
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YTalk – multi-user chat program
YTalk is in essence a multi-user chat program supporting both talk and ntalk protocols.
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utalk – UDP-based talk
utalk is a one-to-one text chat program alternative to the Unix ‘talk’ client, which uses a more responsive protocol built over UDP (instead of TCP).
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ntalk – chat application
ntalk is a chat application. It is designed to be much more friendly than Unix talk and provide a nice console interface.
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ttyper – terminal-based typing test
ttyper is a terminal-based typing test. It supports a good range of languages including English, German, Norwegian, Ukrainian, and Spanish.
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toipe – trusty terminal typing tester
toipe is a trusty terminal typing tester. toipe looks best on a nice terminal (such as Alacritty) with color and style support.
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thokr – sleek typing TUI
thokr is a sleek typing TUI with visualized results and historical logging. It’s written in the Rust programming language.
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tt – terminal based typing test
tt is a terminal based typing test. By default tt creates a test consisting of 50 randomly generated words from the top 1000 English words.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: compress
This article spotlights alternative tools to compress, a utility that reduces the size of files.
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rename.pl – rename files using Perl expressions
rename.pl allows renaming files using Perl code, such as regular expression replaces (s/old/new/), character translation, and other code.
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renameutils – programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome
The file renaming utilities (renameutils for short) are a set of programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome.
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rename – rename multiple files
This program renames files according to modification rules specified on the command line.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: date
This article spotlights alternative tools to date, a utility that prints or sets the system date and time.
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hodie – prints the date in Latin
hodie brings new functionality to your UNIX installations. It prints out the current date and time in Roman digits.
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datemath – date and time math utility
datemath is a command line date and time math utility. This is free and open source software written in the C language.
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qtime – clock coded in Rust
qTime is a simple command-line application that retrieves the current user’s name and displays it along with the current date and time.
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rdate – retrieve date and time from other machines
rdate connects to an RFC 868 time server over a TCP/IP network, printing the returned time and/or setting the system clock.
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