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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Category: Utilities
systeroid – powerful alternative to sysctl
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
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
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
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
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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ov – feature rich terminal pager
ov is a feature rich terminal pager. It is an alternative to less, more, and tail -f. It also offers a useful function for tabular text.
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less – popular pager
less is a pager. A pager is a program that displays text files.
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most – paging software
most is a more/less style paging program. It supports multiple windows and scrolls left/right. This is free and open source software.
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slit – modern pager
slit is a modern pager for viewing logs. The goal is to get more from logs than most other pagers can – and to do so in less time.
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mdcat – cat for Markdown
Think cat, think Markdown and you’re set. mdcat renders the basic CommonMark syntax and highlights code blocks.
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grc – frontend for generic colouriser grcat
The main program is grcat, which acts as a filter, i.e. taking standard input, colourising it and writing to standard output.
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tac – concatenate and print files in reverse
Coreutils is a package of software containing implementations for many of the basic tools, including cat and tac.
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pru – Pipeable Ruby
pru lets you use Ruby in your pipes. Forget about grep / sed / awk / wc … It’s written in the Ruby programming language.
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xlsxgrep – tool to search text in XLSX, XLS, CSV, TSV and ODS files
xlsxgrep is a CLI tool to search text in XLSX, XLS, CSV, TSV and ODS files. It works similarly to grep. Written in Python.
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bingrep – grep-like tool for binaries
bingrep greps through binaries from various OSs and architectures, and colors them. This is free and open source software written in Rust.
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rzgrep – greps through the contents of an archive file
rzgrep greps through the contents of an archive file, it also greps through any archive files that are embedded within an archive file.
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ngrep – grep applied to the network layer
ngrep is a PCAP-based tool that allows you to specify an extended regular or hexadecimal expression to match against data payloads of packets.
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ucg – fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code
UniversalCodeGrep (ucg) is an extremely fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code.
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vgrep – pager for grep, git-grep, ripgrep and similar grep implementations
vgrep is a pager for grep, git-grep, ripgrep and similar grep tools. It allows opening the indexed file locations in a user-specified editor.
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