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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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Documentation

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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Documentation

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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Documentation

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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Documentation

tlrc – tldr client written in Rust

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tlrc is a tldr client written in Rust. The tldr-pages project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools.

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Essential Utilities to Boost Producitivity

tcount – cloc alternative

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

tcount is a utility to count your code by tokens and patterns in the syntax tree. It’s written in the Rust language.

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Administrators in action

doas – execute commands as another user

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The doas utility is a program originally written for OpenBSD which allows a user to run a command as though they were another user.

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Administrators in action

pkexec – execute a command as another user

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pkexec allows an authorized user to execute a command as another user.

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Administrators in action

su – run a command with substitute user and group ID

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

su allows commands to be run with a substitute user and group ID.

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Administrators in action

dzdo – execute commands with the privileges of another user

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dzdo is a command-line tool used to execute commands with the privileges of another user, such as the superuser or root user.

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Documentation

dnslookup – command-line DNS query utility

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dnslookup tests conventional and encrypted DNS resolvers with HTTP/3, DNSCrypt, DNS-over-QUIC, reverse lookups and custom endpoints.

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Documentation

dog – command-line DNS client

May 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dog is a command-line DNS client. It has colourful output, understands normal command-line argument syntax.

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Documentation

drill – command-line DNS and DNSSEC diagnostic utility

May 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

drill is a command-line DNS diagnostic utility offering DNSSEC signature checks, delegation tracing, reverse lookups and query controls.

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