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ngrep – grep applied to the network layer

ngrep is a PCAP-based tool that allows you to specify an extended regular or hexadecimal expression to match against data payloads of packets.

The Silver Searcher is a tool for searching code. It started off as a clone of Ack, but their feature sets have since diverged slightly.

epkill is a fork of procps-ng verion 3.3.10, but only with the utilities pidof, pgrep, and pkill. GPL licensed software.

LFT, short for Layer Four Traceroute, is a sort of ‘traceroute’ that often works much faster.

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

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

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

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

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

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