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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pkexec – execute a command as another user
pkexec allows an authorized user to execute a command as another user.
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su – run a command with substitute user and group ID
su allows commands to be run with a substitute user and group ID.
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dzdo – execute commands with the privileges of another user
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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xtmsplit – Xtremsplit-compliant file splitter and merger
xtmsplit is a command line program that allows to use or create .xtm files, like the Xtremsplit program allows on Windows.
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filesplitter – split large file into multiple small files
filesplitter is a CLI tool that split large files into multiple small files. It’s written in the Python programming language.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Activity Monitor
Activity Monitor displays a variety of resources in use on a system in real time. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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plocate – much faster locate
plocate is a locate based on posting lists, completely replacing mlocate with a much faster (and smaller) index.
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mlocate – locate/updatedb implementation
mlocate is a locate/updatedb implementation, a utility for finding files by name quickly. This is free and open source software.
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alder – minimal implementation of tree
alder is a recursive directory listing program that supports file-size reporting, and pattern matching. Written in JavaScript.
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ictree – interactive tree
ictree is like tree but interactive. This terminal-based program takes a list of contents of directories and displays them in a pager/
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tre – tree command, improved
tre is a modern alternative to the tree command. tre provides a -e flag that, when used, turns on the “editor aliasing” feature.
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Tree – display a tree view of directories
Tree is a handy little utility to display a tree view of directories. This is free and open source software written in C.
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ddi – wrapper for dd
ddi (or dd-interactive) is a wrapper for dd. It’s free and open source software written in the Rust programming language.
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pydf – fully colourised df-clone
pydf is an all-singing, all-dancing, fully colourised df-clone. It’s written in the Python programming language and is public domain.
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Atuin – magical shell history
Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands.
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csplit – split a file into two or more smaller files determined by context lines
csplit is a utility that splits a file into two or more smaller files determined by context lines.
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lxSplit – simple tool for splitting files and joining the split files
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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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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systeroid – powerful alternative to sysctl
systeroid is “sysctl on steroids”. It can do everything that sysctl does and even more.
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