UniversalCodeGrep (ucg) is an extremely fast grep-like tool specialized for searching large bodies of source code.
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Category: Utilities
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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phpgrep – syntax-aware grep for PHP code
phpgrep is both a library and a command-line tool. The library can be used to perform syntax-aware PHP code matching inside Go programs.
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ack – grep-like source code search tool
ack is designed as an alternative to grep for programmers. It is highly portable and runs on any platform that runs Perl.
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The Silver Searcher – code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster
The Silver Searcher is a tool for searching code. It started off as a clone of Ack, but their feature sets have since diverged slightly.
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CGrep – context-aware grep for C and C++ source files
CGrep is a context-aware grep for source codes. It’s implemented using Clang’s libtooling libraries. Free and open source software.
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sift – fast and powerful alternative to grep
sift is an alternative that aims for both speed and flexibility – i.e. adding features while trying to reach the performance of grep.
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ugrep – ultra fast grep with interactive TUI
The ugrep utility searches any given input files, selecting lines that match one or more patterns. Free and open source software.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: kill
This article spotlights alternative tools to kill.
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pkill – kills a given program name
pkill is a Python script that is compatible from 2.6 upwards through 3.2. pkill kills a process by its name.
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gkill – interactive process killer
gkill is an interactive process killer for Linux and macOS. It’s written in the Go programming language and MIT licensed.
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epkill – procps utilities with environment constraints
epkill is a fork of procps-ng verion 3.3.10, but only with the utilities pidof, pgrep, and pkill. GPL licensed software.
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Open Visual Trace Route – visual traceroute tool
Open Visual Trace Route is a cross-platform visual traceroute tool. It’s written in the Java programming language.
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Dublin Traceroute – NAT-aware multipath tracerouting tool
Dublin Traceroute is a NAT-aware multipath traceroute tool. It’s written in the Go and C++ programming languages.
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Layer Four Traceroute – multi-protocol traceroute engine
LFT, short for Layer Four Traceroute, is a sort of ‘traceroute’ that often works much faster.
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bfs – breadth-first search for your files
bfs is a variant of the UNIX find command that operates breadth-first rather than depth-first. It’s written in C.
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bfind – minimalistic alternative to find
bfind is a minimalistic alternative to find that is designed to be efficient that locating files. Written in C.
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ffind – sane replacement for command line file search
ffind allows quick and easy recursive search for files in the command line. This is free and open source software.
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friendly-find – friendly file finder
friendly-find is the friendly file finder. It’s meant to be a more usable replacement for find. If you’ve used ack, then ffind is to find as ack is to grep.
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OpenRDAP – RDAP command line client
OpenRDAP is an command line RDAP client implementation in Go. RDAP is a replacement for WHOIS.
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