This article spotlights alternative tools to sudo, a command which lets you execute a command as another user.
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This article spotlights alternative tools to sudo, a command which lets you execute a command as another user.
Read moreThe doas utility is a program originally written for OpenBSD which allows a user to run a command as though they were another user.
Read morepkexec allows an authorized user to execute a command as another user.
Read moresu allows commands to be run with a substitute user and group ID.
Read moredzdo is a command-line tool used to execute commands with the privileges of another user, such as the superuser or root user.
Read morednslookup is a simple command line utility to make DNS lookups. The tool supports DNS protocols: plain DNS, DoH, DoT, DoQ, DNSCrypt.
Read moredog is a command-line DNS client. It has colourful output, understands normal command-line argument syntax.
Read moreldns includes a DNS lookup utility named drill. It can perform DNS lookups and display the answers. Written in C.
Read morextmsplit is a command line program that allows to use or create .xtm files, like the Xtremsplit program allows on Windows.
Read morefilesplitter is a CLI tool that split large files into multiple small files. It’s written in the Python programming language.
Read moreloc is a tool for counting lines of code. It’s a Rust implementation of cloc, but it’s more than 100x faster.
Read moreloccount is a re-implementation of David A. Wheeler’s sloccount tool in Go. It’s free and open source software.
Read moreFlashcards are one of the best tools for memorizing information. This is partly because of their versatility. They can help teach multiplication skills, learn a foreign language, recall facts, historical dates, in fact anything that can be learned in an intuitive way.
Read moregoclock is a little fast cloc (Count Lines Of Code) utility. It seeks inspiration from tokei. It’s written in Go.
Read moreTokei is a program that displays statistics about your code. Tokei is written in the Rust programming language.
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