This article spotlights alternative tools to kill.
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Category: Utilities
pkill – kills a given program name
pkill is a Python script that is compatible from 2.6 upwards through 3.2. pkill kills a process by its name.
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gkill – interactive process killer
gkill is an interactive process killer for Linux and macOS. It’s written in the Go programming language and MIT licensed.
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epkill – procps utilities with environment constraints
epkill is a fork of procps-ng verion 3.3.10, but only with the utilities pidof, pgrep, and pkill. GPL licensed software.
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Open Visual Trace Route – visual traceroute tool
Open Visual Trace Route is a cross-platform visual traceroute tool. It’s written in the Java programming language.
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Dublin Traceroute – NAT-aware multipath tracerouting tool
Dublin Traceroute is a NAT-aware multipath traceroute tool. It’s written in the Go and C++ programming languages.
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Layer Four Traceroute – multi-protocol traceroute engine
LFT, short for Layer Four Traceroute, is a sort of ‘traceroute’ that often works much faster.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Windows Terminal
Windows Terminal is billed as “a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application”. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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bfs – breadth-first search for your files
bfs is a variant of the UNIX find command that operates breadth-first rather than depth-first. It’s written in C.
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bfind – minimalistic alternative to find
bfind is a minimalistic alternative to find that is designed to be efficient that locating files. Written in C.
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ffind – sane replacement for command line file search
ffind allows quick and easy recursive search for files in the command line. This is free and open source software.
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friendly-find – friendly file finder
friendly-find is the friendly file finder. It’s meant to be a more usable replacement for find. If you’ve used ack, then ffind is to find as ack is to grep.
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OpenRDAP – RDAP command line client
OpenRDAP is an command line RDAP client implementation in Go. RDAP is a replacement for WHOIS.
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ipwhois – retrieve and parse whois data for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
ipwhois is a Python package focused on retrieving and parsing whois data for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: whois
whois searches for an object in a RFC 3912 database. We spotlight alternative tools to whois.
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rdapper – simple console-based RDAP client
rdapper is a simple RDAP client. It uses Net::RDAP to retrieve data about internet resources. It’s written in Perl.
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jwhois – internet whois client
jwhois is an improved Whois client capable of selecting Whois server to query based on a flexible configuration file.
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viddy – modern watch command
viddy is a modern watch command. It features in our Top 100 CLI apps. viddy is written in the Go programming language.
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neowatch – modern alternative to watch command
neowatch is a modern alternative to the watch command. It’s free and open source software written in the Rust language.
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hwatch – modern alternative to watch
hwatch is a modern alternative to watch. It records the differences in execution results and can check the differences afterwards.
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