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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: traceroute

traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host. We recommend the best alternatives.

pkgdu is a tool to display packages disk usage size for Arch Linux.

When invoked without any arguments, ls lists the files in the current working directory. We recommend some great replacements.

duviz is a (Python 3) command-line tool to visualize disk space usage.

By default, dut will output a tree of the biggest directories it finds under your current directory.

This article spotlights alternative tools to ping. All software featured here is free and open source goodness.

pingstat is a lightweight, user-level script for multi-server ping logging, storing stats per server in user-writable SQLite databases.

This article spotlights alternative tools to sudo, a command which lets you execute a command as another user.

myping is a command-line utility to ping multiple hosts at once and display the reachability over time.

asroot is a command-line utility to run a process as the root user. It’s written in the C language