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Category: Utilities

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pstree – display a tree of processes

June 8, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pstree shows the currently running processes as a tree. This is free and open source software written in the C programming language.

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fuser – identifies processes using files or sockets

June 6, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fuser identifies processes using files or sockets. It’s written in the C programming language and published under the GPL.

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lsfd – modern replacement for lsof

June 6, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

lsfd is intended to be a modern replacement for lsof on Linux systems. It’s free and open source software written in C.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: lsof

June 6, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

We explore free and open source alternatives to lsof, a utility that lists file information about files opened by processes.

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fend – arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator

June 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fend is an arbitrary-precision unit-aware calculator. fend supports a few different output formats. It’s free and open source software.

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bcal – storage expression calculator

June 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bcal (Byte CALculator) is a REPL CLI utility for storage expression evaluation, SI/IEC conversion, byte address calculation, and more.

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Calculators

concalc – parser-algorithm of extcalc

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

concalc is a calculator for the Linux console. It is just the parser-algorithm of extcalc packed into a simple console program.

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bc-gh – implementation of dc and bc

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

bc-gh is an implementation of Unix dc and POSIX bc with GNU and BSD extensions. It’s free and open source software.

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cpc – text calculator

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

cpc is a text calculator with support for units and conversion. cpc parses and evaluates strings of math. It’s written in Rust.

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eva – simple calculator REPL

June 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

eva is a simple calculator REPL, similar to bc, with syntax highlighting and persistent history. It’s free and open source software.

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Linguist – Ruby library

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Linguist detects blob languages, ignore binary or vendored files, suppress generated files in diffs, and generate language breakdown graphs.

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enry – command-line tool based on enry

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

enry is a programming language detector based on go-enry/go-enry/v2 library. enry is free and open source software.

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sloc – simple tool to count SLOC

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sloc is a simple tool to count source lines of code. It’s free and open source software written in CoffeScript.

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polyglot – command-line tool that determines project contents

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The goal of poly is to able to point it to any directory and get an accurate, complete, and informative summary of its contents.

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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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Administrators in action

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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Documentation

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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