plocate is a locate based on posting lists, completely replacing mlocate with a much faster (and smaller) index.
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Category: Utilities
mlocate – locate/updatedb implementation
mlocate is a locate/updatedb implementation, a utility for finding files by name quickly. This is free and open source software.
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Natls – ls alternative
Natls is an `ls` alternative with useful info and a splash of color. It’s an easy to use utility written in Rust.
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alder – minimal implementation of tree
alder is a recursive directory listing program that supports file-size reporting, and pattern matching. Written in JavaScript.
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twf – standalone tree view explorer inspired by fzf
twf is a standalone tree view explorer inspired by fzf. twf stands for Tree View Find. It’s written in the Go language.
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ictree – interactive tree
ictree is like tree but interactive. This terminal-based program takes a list of contents of directories and displays them in a pager/
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tre – tree command, improved
tre is a modern alternative to the tree command. tre provides a -e flag that, when used, turns on the “editor aliasing” feature.
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Tree – display a tree view of directories
Tree is a handy little utility to display a tree view of directories. This is free and open source software written in C.
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ddi – wrapper for dd
ddi (or dd-interactive) is a wrapper for dd. It’s free and open source software written in the Rust programming language.
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xcp – extended cp
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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fcp – faster alternative to cp
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
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
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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dfrs – display file system space usage using graphs and colors
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
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
This article spotlights alternative tools to split, a utility that splits a file into pieces.
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csplit – split a file into two or more smaller files determined by context lines
csplit is a utility that splits a file into two or more smaller files determined by context lines.
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lxSplit – simple tool for splitting files and joining the split files
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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csplitb – split binary files
csplitb is a tool like csplit but which splits binary files based on content boundaries rather than index boundaries.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cut
This article spotlights alternative tools to cut.
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