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Hack – typeface designed for source code

June 3, 2023 Luke Baker Utilities

Hack is designed to be a workhorse typeface for source code. It has deep roots in the open source typeface community.

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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Books

June 2, 2023 Steve Emms Software, Utilities

Apple Books is an e-book reading and store application. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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skim – fuzzy finder

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

skim is a fuzzy finder. It can be used as a general filter (like grep) or as an interactive interface for invoking commands.

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please – polite regex-first sudo alternative

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

please is a small utility to delegate accurate least privilege access with ease. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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Fast Unix Commands – provides alternatives for rm and cp

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Fast Unix Commands provides modern UNIX commands.The goals of the project are to provide performance, efficiency, and usability.

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Sed-Go – an implementation of sed in Go

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Sed-Go is an implementation of sed in Go. This sed engine can be embedded in your program.

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sd – find and replace CLI

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sd is an intuitive find and replace CLI. sd uses regex syntax that you already know from JavaScript and Python.

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bropages – readable supplement to man pages

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bropages is a highly readable supplement to man pages. The CLI tool shows simple, concise examples for commands with syntax highlighting.

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tlrc – tldr client written in Rust

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tlrc is a tldr client written in Rust. The tldr-pages project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools.

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tcount – cloc alternative

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tcount is a utility to count your code by tokens and patterns in the syntax tree. It’s written in the Rust language.

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doas – execute commands as another user

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The doas utility is a program originally written for OpenBSD which allows a user to run a command as though they were another user.

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Administrators in action

pkexec – execute a command as another user

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pkexec allows an authorized user to execute a command as another user.

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su – run a command with substitute user and group ID

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

su allows commands to be run with a substitute user and group ID.

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Administrators in action

dzdo – execute commands with the privileges of another user

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dzdo is a command-line tool used to execute commands with the privileges of another user, such as the superuser or root user.

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dnslookup – make DNS lookups

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dnslookup is a simple command line utility to make DNS lookups. The tool supports DNS protocols: plain DNS, DoH, DoT, DoQ, DNSCrypt.

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Documentation

dog – command-line DNS client

May 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dog is a command-line DNS client. It has colourful output, understands normal command-line argument syntax.

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drill – perform DNS lookups

May 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ldns includes a DNS lookup utility named drill. It can perform DNS lookups and display the answers. Written in C.

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Files

xtmsplit – Xtremsplit-compliant file splitter and merger

May 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xtmsplit is a command line program that allows to use or create .xtm files, like the Xtremsplit program allows on Windows.

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Files

filesplitter – split large file into multiple small files

May 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

filesplitter is a CLI tool that split large files into multiple small files. It’s written in the Python programming language.

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Documentation

loc – count lines of code quickly

May 28, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

loc is a tool for counting lines of code. It’s a Rust implementation of cloc, but it’s more than 100x faster.

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