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Category: Utilities

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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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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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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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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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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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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sudo

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

This article spotlights alternative tools to sudo, a command which lets you execute a command as another user.

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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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