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su – run a command with substitute user and group ID

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

su allows commands to be run with a substitute user and group ID.

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drill – perform DNS lookups

May 30, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ldns includes a DNS lookup utility named drill. It can perform DNS lookups and display the answers. Written in C.

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SLOCCount – set of tools for counting physical Source Lines of Code

May 28, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

SLOCCount is a set of tools for counting physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) in many languages of a potentially large set of programs.

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mlocate – locate/updatedb implementation

May 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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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ObexFTP – mobile equipment file transfer tool

May 24, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

ObexFTP makes mobile devices that feature the OBEX protocol and that adhere to the OBEX FTP standard accessible.

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GNOME Bluetooth – GNOME’s Bluetooth tool

May 24, 2023 Steve Emms Internet

GNOME Bluetooth is a fork of bluez-gnome focused on integration with the GNOME desktop environment.

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Gcolor3 – color selection dialog

May 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Gcolor3 is a color selection dialog written in GTK+ 3.

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Gpick – advanced color picker and palette editor

May 23, 2023 Steve Emms Graphics

Gpick is an application that allows you to sample any color from anywhere on the desktop, and use it to create palettes.

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Monitoring

ictree – interactive tree

May 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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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Tree – display a tree view of directories

May 19, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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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CDROM

cyanrip – fully featured CD ripping software

May 16, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

cyanrip is a fully-featured CD ripping program able to take out most of the tedium.

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Files

csplit – split a file into two or more smaller files determined by context lines

May 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

csplit is a utility that splits a file into two or more smaller files determined by context lines.

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Files

lxSplit – simple tool for splitting files and joining the split files

May 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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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cut command

ccut – cut command

May 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ccut is a UNIX ‘cut’ command. It adds a couple of extra features (and a couple of features missing). This is free and open source software.

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Network Security

digup – update md5sum or shasum digest files

May 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

digup is a console tool to update md5sum or shasum digest files.

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Network Security

sha3sum – Keccak, SHA-3, SHAKE, and RawSHAKE checksum utilities

May 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

sha3sum are fully configurable byte-orientated checksum utilities for Keccak and its close derivatives SHA-3, SHAKE and RawSHAKE.

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Network Security

md5sum – compute and check MD5 message digest

May 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Multimedia

md5sum is software that calculates and verifies 128-bit MD5 hashes, as described in RFC 1321.

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Network Security

RHash – utility for verifying hash sums of files

May 9, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Security

RHash is a utility for computing hash sums. It offers calculation and verification of magnet links and various message digests.

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les – pager like less

May 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

les is a pager program similar to less and more, with several improved features. This is free and open source software.

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less – popular pager

May 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

less is a pager. A pager is a program that displays text files.

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