Out of the myriad of utilities that are available for Linux, top is a troubleshooting tool that often comes up in conversation. We recommend the best network ‘top’ tools.
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Category: CLI
ddclient – update dynamic DNS entries
ddclient is a Perl client used to update dynamic DNS entries for accounts on many dynamic DNS services. It uses curl for internet access.
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hns – privacy-focused speech-to-text CLI utility
hns records your voice, transcribes it locally using faster-whisper, and copies the transcription to your clipboard.
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awl – DNS lookup tool
awl is a command-line DNS lookup tool that supports DNS queries over UDP, TCP, TLS, HTTPS, DNSCrypt, and QUIC.
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MUTN – self-hosted, SSH-synchronized password and note manager
MUTN is a simple, self-hosted, SSH-synchronized password and note manager based on libmutton. It is the successor to sshyp.
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autogit – automatically build, update or install Pacman applications
Autogit is a Bash tool to automatically build, update or install Pacman applications from PKGBUILD’s
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cwal – generates dynamic color schemes from images
cwal extracts dominant colors from your chosen image and applies them to your terminal, applications, and other system components.
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7 Best Free and Open Source Console Log File Analyzers
Almost everything that happens on a Linux system is logged in some way. We feature the finest open source console-based log file analyzers.
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TCPreen – TCP network re-engineering tool
TCPreen is a tool to monitor and analyze data transmitted between clients and servers through connection-oriented streams data.
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JADX – Dex to Java decompiler
JADX is command line and GUI tools for producing Java source code from Android Dex and Apk files.
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Paru – feature packed AUR helper
Paru is a standard Pacman wrapping AUR helper with lots of features and minimal interaction.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: hexdump
We spotlight alternative tools to hexdump, a utility that displays file contents in hexadecimal, octal, or ascii.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: dig
This article spotlights alternative tools to dig. This is a DNS lookup utility.
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objdiff – local diffing tool for decompilation project
objdiff is a local diffing tool for decompilation projects. There is also a GUI available.
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Simple Archiver – alternative to tar
Simple Archiver is an alternative to tar. Despite its name, this open source tool has a fairly wide range of features.
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Yay – AUR helper
Yay (Yet Another Yogurt) is an Arch User Repository (AUR) helper tool.
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q – command line DNS client
q is a tiny command line DNS client with support for UDP, TCP, DoT, DoH, DoQ and ODoH.
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Sync-in – file sync and server management
Sync-in is available as a desktop application (Linux, macOS, and Windows and a command line interface (CLI), Sync-in adapts to your workflow
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sshmate – simplify interactions with SSH servers
sshmate is a tool designed to simplify interactions with SSH servers. It provides an easy way to connect to servers.
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28 Best Free and Open Source Command Line Navigation Tools
Tiny but useful tools that complement the cd command. Free and open source goodness.
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