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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Category: Utilities
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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ccut – cut command
ccut is a UNIX ‘cut’ command. It adds a couple of extra features (and a couple of features missing). This is free and open source software.
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choose – human-friendly and fast alternative to cut
choose is a human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.
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hck – drop-in replacement for cut
hck is close to drop in replacement for cut that can use a regex delimiter instead of a fixed string. It’s written in Rust.
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systeroid – powerful alternative to sysctl
systeroid is “sysctl on steroids”. It can do everything that sysctl does and even more.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sysctl
This article spotlights an alternative tool to sysctl. It’s part of our Alternatives to popular CLI tools series.
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streampager – pager for command output or large files
streampager is a pager for command output or large files. Its main program, sp, accepts streamed input on stdin for paging.
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moor – pager that reads and displays UTF-8 encoded text from files or pipelines
moar is a pager. It reads and displays UTF-8 encoded text from files or pipelines. Free and open source software.
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les – pager like less
les is a pager program similar to less and more, with several improved features. This is free and open source software.
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ov – feature rich terminal pager
ov is a feature rich terminal pager. It is an alternative to less, more, and tail -f. It also offers a useful function for tabular text.
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less – popular pager
less is a pager. A pager is a program that displays text files.
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most – paging software
most is a more/less style paging program. It supports multiple windows and scrolls left/right. This is free and open source software.
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slit – modern pager
slit is a modern pager for viewing logs. The goal is to get more from logs than most other pagers can – and to do so in less time.
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mdcat – cat for Markdown
Think cat, think Markdown and you’re set. mdcat renders the basic CommonMark syntax and highlights code blocks.
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grc – frontend for generic colouriser grcat
The main program is grcat, which acts as a filter, i.e. taking standard input, colourising it and writing to standard output.
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tac – concatenate and print files in reverse
Coreutils is a package of software containing implementations for many of the basic tools, including cat and tac.
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pru – Pipeable Ruby
pru lets you use Ruby in your pipes. Forget about grep / sed / awk / wc … It’s written in the Ruby programming language.
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xlsxgrep – tool to search text in XLSX, XLS, CSV, TSV and ODS files
xlsxgrep is a CLI tool to search text in XLSX, XLS, CSV, TSV and ODS files. It works similarly to grep. Written in Python.
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bingrep – grep-like tool for binaries
bingrep greps through binaries from various OSs and architectures, and colors them. This is free and open source software written in Rust.
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