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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Font Book

May 12, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple Font Book lets you organise fonts into collections and libraries. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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cut command

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cut

May 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to cut.

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ccut – cut command

May 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ccut is a UNIX ‘cut’ command. It adds a couple of extra features (and a couple of features missing). This is free and open source software.

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choose – human-friendly and fast alternative to cut

May 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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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hck – drop-in replacement for cut

May 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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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systeroid – powerful alternative to sysctl

May 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

May 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

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

May 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

May 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

May 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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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