choose is a human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.
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Category: CLI
hck – drop-in replacement for cut
hck is close to drop in replacement for cut that can use a regex delimiter instead of a fixed string. It’s written in Rust.
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digup – update md5sum or shasum digest files
digup is a console tool to update md5sum or shasum digest files.
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sha3sum – Keccak, SHA-3, SHAKE, and RawSHAKE checksum utilities
sha3sum are fully configurable byte-orientated checksum utilities for Keccak and its close derivatives SHA-3, SHAKE and RawSHAKE.
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md5sum – compute and check MD5 message digest
md5sum is software that calculates and verifies 128-bit MD5 hashes, as described in RFC 1321.
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Jacksum – data integrity software for working with checksums, CRCs, and message digests
Jacksum is data integrity software for working with checksums, CRCs, and message digests (hashes).
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cfv – test and create checksum files
cfv is a utility to both test and create .sfv, .csv, .crc, .md5(sfv-like), md5sum, bsd md5, sha1sum, and .torrent files.
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RHash – utility for verifying hash sums of files
RHash is a utility for computing hash sums. It offers calculation and verification of magnet links and various message digests.
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systeroid – powerful alternative to sysctl
systeroid is “sysctl on steroids”. It can do everything that sysctl does and even more.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sysctl
This article spotlights an alternative tool to sysctl. It’s part of our Alternatives to popular CLI tools series.
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streampager – pager for command output or large files
streampager is a pager for command output or large files. Its main program, sp, accepts streamed input on stdin for paging.
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moor – pager that reads and displays UTF-8 encoded text from files or pipelines
moar is a pager. It reads and displays UTF-8 encoded text from files or pipelines. Free and open source software.
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les – pager like less
les is a pager program similar to less and more, with several improved features. This is free and open source software.
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ov – feature rich terminal pager
ov is a feature rich terminal pager. It is an alternative to less, more, and tail -f. It also offers a useful function for tabular text.
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less – popular pager
less is a pager. A pager is a program that displays text files.
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most – paging software
most is a more/less style paging program. It supports multiple windows and scrolls left/right. This is free and open source software.
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slit – modern pager
slit is a modern pager for viewing logs. The goal is to get more from logs than most other pagers can – and to do so in less time.
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Linux Candy: cbonsai – generate bonsai trees
cbonsai is a bonsai tree generator, written in C using ncurses. It intelligently creates, colors, and positions a bonsai tree.
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mdcat – cat for Markdown
Think cat, think Markdown and you’re set. mdcat renders the basic CommonMark syntax and highlights code blocks.
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grc – frontend for generic colouriser grcat
The main program is grcat, which acts as a filter, i.e. taking standard input, colourising it and writing to standard output.
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