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
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 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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Best Free and Open Source Software – May 2023
Here are the latest updates to our compilation of recommended software. Open source software at its finest.
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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.
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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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dnslookup – make DNS lookups
dnslookup is a simple command line utility to make DNS lookups. The tool supports DNS protocols: plain DNS, DoH, DoT, DoQ, DNSCrypt.
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dog – command-line DNS client
dog is a command-line DNS client. It has colourful output, understands normal command-line argument syntax.
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drill – perform DNS lookups
ldns includes a DNS lookup utility named drill. It can perform DNS lookups and display the answers. Written in C.
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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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loc – count lines of code quickly
loc is a tool for counting lines of code. It’s a Rust implementation of cloc, but it’s more than 100x faster.
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loccount – count source lines of code in a project
loccount is a re-implementation of David A. Wheeler’s sloccount tool in Go. It’s free and open source software.
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Vocage – minimalistic terminal-based vocabulary-learning tool
Vocage is a minimalistic terminal-based vocabulary-learning tool. It presents flashcards using a spaced-repetition algorithm (e.g. Leitner).
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gocloc – fast cloc
goclock is a little fast cloc (Count Lines Of Code) utility. It seeks inspiration from tokei. It’s written in Go.
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Tokei – count your code, quickly
Tokei is a program that displays statistics about your code. Tokei is written in the Rust programming language.
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scc – very fast accurate code counter
scc counts physical the lines of code, blank lines, comment lines, and physical lines of source code in many programming languages.
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RnR – securely rename multiple files and directories
RnR is a command-line tool to securely rename multiple files and directories that supports regular expressions.
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