This is a series of cornerstone articles highlighting essential utilities. These are small, indispensable tools, useful for anyone running a Linux machine.
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Category: Utilities
Excellent Utilities: pastel – generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors
pastel is a command-line tool to generate, analyze, convert and manipulate colors. This tool supports a variety of color formats and color spaces.
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ccat – colorizing cat
ccat is the colorizing cat. It works similar to cat but displays content with syntax highlighting. Written in Go.
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touche – touch command
touche is a Rust implementation of the touch utility. This tool was inspired by bonk, another Rust implementation.
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bonk – fast touch alternative
bonk is billed as a blazingly fast touch alternative with a sprinkle of mkdir. It’s written in the Rust programming language.
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htmlq – like jq but for html
htmlq is like jq, but for HTML. It uses CSS selectors to extract bits of content from HTML files. This is free and open source software.
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zet – command-line utility for doing set operations on files considered as sets of lines
zet is a command-line utility for doing set operations on files considered as sets of lines. It’s free and open source software.
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killport – kill processes running on a specified port
killport is a command-line utility for killing processes listening on specific ports. It’s designed to be simple, fast, and effective.
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mawk – pattern scanning and text processing language
mawk is an interpreter for the awk programming language. It’s free and open source software written in the C programming language.
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gema – general purpose macro processor
gema is a general purpose text processing utility based on the concept of pattern matching. It’s free and open source software.
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GoAWK – POSIX-compliant awk interpreter
GoAWK is a POSIX-compatible version of AWK, and additionally has a CSV mode for reading and writing CSV and TSV files.
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frawk – efficient awk-like language
frawk is a small programming language for writing short programs processing textual data. It’s written in Rust.
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gawk – implementation of the awk programming language
gawk is the GNU implementation of the Awk programming language, first developed for the UNIX operating system in the 1970s.
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Miller – small and powerful CLI tool to do all your data processing
Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for data formats such as CSV, TSV, JSON, JSON Lines, and positionally-indexed.
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Premake – simple build configuration
Premake is a command line utility which reads a scripted definition of a software project and uses it to generate project files for toolsets.
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just – save and run project-specific commands
just is a handy way to save and run project-specific commands. This is free and open source software written in Rust.
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pgcli – Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting
pgcli is a Postgres client that does auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: psql
This article spotlights alternative tools to psql, a PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
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Trippy – network diagnostic tool
Trippy is a network diagnostic tool. It combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and helps in the analysis of networking issues.
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Eternal Terminal – remote shell
Eternal Terminal (ET) is a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session. It’s written in C++.
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