epkill is a fork of procps-ng verion 3.3.10, but only with the utilities pidof, pgrep, and pkill. GPL licensed software.
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Category: CLI
Open Visual Trace Route – visual traceroute tool
Open Visual Trace Route is a cross-platform visual traceroute tool. It’s written in the Java programming language.
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Dublin Traceroute – NAT-aware multipath tracerouting tool
Dublin Traceroute is a NAT-aware multipath traceroute tool. It’s written in the Go and C++ programming languages.
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Layer Four Traceroute – multi-protocol traceroute engine
LFT, short for Layer Four Traceroute, is a sort of ‘traceroute’ that often works much faster.
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bfs – breadth-first search for your files
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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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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viddy – modern watch command
viddy is a modern watch command. It features in our Top 100 CLI apps. viddy is written in the Go programming language.
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Snow – whitespace steganography program
Snow is used to conceal messages in ASCII text by appending whitespace to the end of lines.
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neowatch – modern alternative to watch command
neowatch is a modern alternative to the watch command. It’s free and open source software written in the Rust language.
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hwatch – modern alternative to watch
hwatch is a modern alternative to watch. It records the differences in execution results and can check the differences afterwards.
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2ping – bi-directional ping utility
2ping is a bi-directional ping utility. It uses 3-way pings (akin to TCP SYN, SYN/ACK, ACK). Free and open source software.
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echoping – testing tool for network protocols
echoping is a small program to test (approximately) performances of a remote host by sending it requests such as HTTP requests.
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