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Category: Utilities

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xcp – extended cp

May 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xcp is a (partial) clone of the Unix cp command .It is not intended as a full replacement, but as a companion utility. Written in Rust.

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Documentation

fcp – faster alternative to cp

May 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fcp is a significantly faster alternative to the classic Unix cp command. It’s optimized for systems with an SSD.

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gcp – user-friendly file copier

May 18, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gcp is a user-friendly file copier.Its name used to stand for “Goffi’s CoPier”, but was changed into a recursive acronym: Gcp CoPier.

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pydf – fully colourised df-clone

May 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pydf is an all-singing, all-dancing, fully colourised df-clone. It’s written in the Python programming language and is public domain.

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SSD

dfrs – display file system space usage using graphs and colors

May 15, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dfrs displays the amount of disk space available on the file system containing each file name argument in human-readable format by default.

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Atuin – magical shell history

May 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: split

May 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to split, a utility that splits a file into pieces.

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Files

csplit – split a file into two or more smaller files determined by context lines

May 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

csplit is a utility that splits a file into two or more smaller files determined by context lines.

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Files

lxSplit – simple tool for splitting files and joining the split files

May 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lxSplit is a simple tool for splitting files and joining the split files on unix-like platforms. It’s written in C.

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Files

csplitb – split binary files

May 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

csplitb is a tool like csplit but which splits binary files based on content boundaries rather than index boundaries.

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