Utilities Archives - Page 89 of 120

doas – execute commands as another user

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

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

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

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

dnslookup is a simple command line utility to make DNS lookups. The tool supports DNS protocols: plain DNS, DoH, DoT, DoQ, DNSCrypt.

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

ldns includes a DNS lookup utility named drill. It can perform DNS lookups and display the answers. Written in C.

xtmsplit is a command line program that allows to use or create .xtm files, like the Xtremsplit program allows on Windows.

filesplitter is a CLI tool that split large files into multiple small files. It’s written in the Python programming language.

loc is a tool for counting lines of code. It’s a Rust implementation of cloc, but it’s more than 100x faster.