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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Category: Utilities
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 diagnostics combining ping and traceroute
Trippy analyses network routes with continuous ICMP, UDP and TCP probes, hop-level statistics, latency graphs and reporting facilities.
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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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Mosh – replacement for interactive SSH terminals
Mosh is a replacement for interactive SSH terminals. It’s more robust and responsive, especially over Wi-Fi and cellular.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: age
This article spotlights free and open source alternative tools to age, a popular utility to encrypt and decrypt.
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rage – Rust implementation of the age encryption format
rage is a Rust implementation of the age file encryption format with recipient keys, SSH keys, passphrases, plugins and UNIX-style piping.
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xjobs – parallel execution of command-line jobs
xjobs executes command-line jobs in parallel, detects available processors and keeps job output separate on Linux and Unix systems.
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kindd – dd GUI
kindd is billed as a kindful dd. It’s written using Qt Quick, a software application framework. Open source software.
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dd_rescue – data recovery and data protection tool
dd_rescue copies data from one file or block device to another. You can specify file positions (called seek and Skip in dd).
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Hypercalc – interpreted calculator
Hypercalc is an interpreted calculator program designed to calculate extremely large numbers.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: time
This article spotlights alternative tools to time, a simple tool that provides timing statistics about a program run.
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perf – performance analysis tools
Performance counters for Linux are a kernel-based subsystem that provide a framework for all things performance analysis.
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