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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Category: CLI
Alternatives to popular CLI tools: touch – change file timestamps
This article spotlights alternative tools to touch, a command to change file timestamps.
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subedit – command-line subtitle editor
subedit is a command-line subtitle editor written in Bash. The script generally works with srt (SubRip) and sub (MicroDVD) subtitle files.
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htmlq – like jq but for html
htmlq is like jq, but for HTML. It uses CSS selectors to extract bits of content from HTML files. This is free and open source software.
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zet – command-line utility for doing set operations on files considered as sets of lines
zet is a command-line utility for doing set operations on files considered as sets of lines. It’s free and open source software.
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JavaSnoop – tool for testing Java desktop applications or applets
JavaSnoop is a tool for testing (re: hacking) Java desktop applications or applets.
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killport – kill processes running on a specified port
killport is a command-line utility for killing processes listening on specific ports. It’s designed to be simple, fast, and effective.
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mawk – pattern scanning and text processing language
mawk is an interpreter for the awk programming language. It’s free and open source software written in the C programming language.
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tuifeed – news feed reader with a fancy terminal user interface
tuifeed is a news feed reader with a fancy terminal user interface. It allows you read news from your favourite RSS and Atom sources,
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Elfeed – extensible web feed reader for Emacs, supporting both Atom and RSS
Elfeed is an Emacs Web Feed Reader whose design inspired by notmuch, an email client. It’s written in Emacs Lisp.
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gema – general purpose macro processor
gema is a general purpose text processing utility based on the concept of pattern matching. It’s free and open source software.
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GoAWK – POSIX-compliant awk interpreter
GoAWK is a POSIX-compatible version of AWK, and additionally has a CSV mode for reading and writing CSV and TSV files.
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frawk – efficient awk-like language
frawk is a small programming language for writing short programs processing textual data. It’s written in Rust.
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gawk – implementation of the awk programming language
gawk is the GNU implementation of the Awk programming language, first developed for the UNIX operating system in the 1970s.
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Miller – small and powerful CLI tool to do all your data processing
Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for data formats such as CSV, TSV, JSON, JSON Lines, and positionally-indexed.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: awk
This article spotlights alternative tools to awk, software specialized for textual data manipulation.
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epr – CLI Epub Reader
epr is a terminal/CLI ebook reader for Linux. epr is written in Python 3.6.
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epy – fork of epr
epy is a CLI ebook reader. It’s a fork of epr. This is free and open source software written in the Python language.
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baca – TUI Ebook Reader
baca is billed as epy’s lovely sister who lets you indulge in your favorite e-books in the comfort of your terminal.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: make
This article spotlights alternative tools to make, a utility which controls the generation of executables and other non-source files.
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