This article spotlights alternative tools to ssh, an OpenSSH remote login client.
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Category: CLI
Mosh – replacement for interactive SSH terminals
Mosh is a replacement for interactive SSH terminals. It’s more robust and responsive, especially over Wi-Fi and cellular.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: age
This article spotlights free and open source alternative tools to age, a popular utility to encrypt and decrypt.
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rage – simple encryption tool
rage is a simple, modern, and secure file encryption tool. It features small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
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xjobs – similar to xargs with enhanced support for multiprocessor machines
xjobs reads job descriptions line by line and executes them in parallel. It limits the number of parallel executing jobs.
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kindd – dd GUI
kindd is billed as a kindful dd. It’s written using Qt Quick, a software application framework. Open source software.
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dd_rescue – data recovery and data protection tool
dd_rescue copies data from one file or block device to another. You can specify file positions (called seek and Skip in dd).
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Hypercalc – interpreted calculator
Hypercalc is an interpreted calculator program designed to calculate extremely large numbers.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: time
This article spotlights alternative tools to time, a simple tool that provides timing statistics about a program run.
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perf – performance analysis tools
Performance counters for Linux are a kernel-based subsystem that provide a framework for all things performance analysis.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: xargs
This article spotlights alternative tools to xargs, a command that builds and executes command lines from standard input.
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rust-parallel – execute commands in parallel
rust-parallel is a command-line utility to execute commands in parallel and aggregate their output. It’s written in Rust.
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rargs – xargs + awk with pattern matching support
Think of rargs as similar to xargs and awk with pattern-matching support. It’s written in the Rust programming language.
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parallel – shell tool for executing jobs in parallel
parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. This tool is written in Perl.
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cli-chess – play chess in your terminal
cli-chess is a command-line chess program that lets you play online against human players and offline against the computer.
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xxd – make a hexdump or do the reverse
xxd creates a hex dump of a given file or standard input. It can also convert a hex dump back to its original binary form.
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uq – removes duplicate lines from the output, regardless of the order
uq is a simple, user-friendly alternative to sort | uniq. It removes duplicate lines from the output, regardless of the order.
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semiuniq – uniq-like tool
The semiuniq program reads over lines of input and write lines of output that are “semi-unique” by eliminating repeated lines that are close.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: uniq
We explore free and open source alternatives to uniq, a venerable utility that reports or omits repeated lines.
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runiq – filter duplicate lines from input
runiq offers an efficient way (in both time and space) to filter duplicate entries (lines) from textual input.
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