Search Results for: essential system tools

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

bfind – minimalistic alternative to find

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

ffind – sane replacement for command line file search

ffind allows quick and easy recursive search for files in the command line. This is free and open source software.

friendly-find – friendly file finder

friendly-find is the friendly file finder. It’s meant to be a more usable replacement for find. If you’ve used ack, then ffind is to find as ack is to grep.

OpenRDAP – RDAP command line client

OpenRDAP is an command line RDAP client implementation in Go. RDAP is a replacement for WHOIS.

ipwhois – retrieve and parse whois data for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses

ipwhois is a Python package focused on retrieving and parsing whois data for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

rdapper – simple console-based RDAP client

rdapper is a simple RDAP client. It uses Net::RDAP to retrieve data about internet resources. It’s written in Perl.

jwhois – internet whois client

April 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

jwhois is an improved Whois client capable of selecting Whois server to query based on a flexible configuration file.

viddy – modern watch command

viddy is a modern watch command. It features in our Top 100 CLI apps. viddy is written in the Go programming language.

Snow – whitespace steganography program

April 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

Snow is used to conceal messages in ASCII text by appending whitespace to the end of lines.

neowatch – modern alternative to watch command

April 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

neowatch is a modern alternative to the watch command. It’s free and open source software written in the Rust language.

hwatch – modern alternative to watch

April 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hwatch is a modern alternative to watch. It records the differences in execution results and can check the differences afterwards.

2ping – bi-directional ping utility

2ping is a bi-directional ping utility. It uses 3-way pings (akin to TCP SYN, SYN/ACK, ACK). Free and open source software.

echoping – testing tool for network protocols

echoping is a small program to test (approximately) performances of a remote host by sending it requests such as HTTP requests.

xping – continuously probe multiple hosts

xping is a simple ping program continuously probing multiple hosts using ICMP-ECHO. It’s written in the C programming language.

ping3 – Python3 version of ICMP ping

ping3 is a pure python3 version of ICMP ping implementation using raw socket. It’s published under the MIT License.

omping – test IPv4/IPv6 multicast connectivity on a LAN

Omping (Open Multicast Ping) is tool to test IP multicast functionality primarily in local network. Written in C.

alive – periodic ping