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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: kill

This article spotlights alternative tools to kill.

pkill is a Python script that is compatible from 2.6 upwards through 3.2. pkill kills a process by its name.

gkill is an interactive process killer for Linux and macOS. It’s written in the Go programming language and MIT licensed.

epkill is a fork of procps-ng verion 3.3.10, but only with the utilities pidof, pgrep, and pkill. GPL licensed software.

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

Open Visual Trace Route is a cross-platform visual traceroute tool. It’s written in the Java programming language.

Dublin Traceroute is a NAT-aware multipath traceroute tool. It’s written in the Go and C++ programming languages.

LFT, short for Layer Four Traceroute, is a sort of ‘traceroute’ that often works much faster.

bfs is a variant of the UNIX find command that operates breadth-first rather than depth-first. It’s written in C.

bfind is a minimalistic alternative to find that is designed to be efficient that locating files. Written in C.