less is a pager. A pager is a program that displays text files.
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Tag: C
most – paging software
most is a more/less style paging program. It supports multiple windows and scrolls left/right. This is free and open source software.
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Linux Candy: cbonsai – generate bonsai trees
cbonsai is a bonsai tree generator, written in C using ncurses. It intelligently creates, colors, and positions a bonsai tree.
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tac – concatenate and print files in reverse
Coreutils is a package of software containing implementations for many of the basic tools, including cat and tac.
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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.
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The Silver Searcher – code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster
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.
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epkill – procps utilities with environment constraints
epkill is a fork of procps-ng verion 3.3.10, but only with the utilities pidof, pgrep, and pkill. GPL licensed software.
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Layer Four Traceroute – multi-protocol traceroute engine
LFT, short for Layer Four Traceroute, is a sort of ‘traceroute’ that often works much faster.
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bfs – breadth-first search for your files
bfs is a variant of the UNIX find command that operates breadth-first rather than depth-first. It’s written in C.
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bfind – minimalistic alternative to find
bfind is a minimalistic alternative to find that is designed to be efficient that locating files. Written in C.
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jwhois – internet whois client
jwhois is an improved Whois client capable of selecting Whois server to query based on a flexible configuration file.
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Snow – whitespace steganography program
Snow is used to conceal messages in ASCII text by appending whitespace to the end of lines.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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BWPing – measures bandwidth and response times between two hosts using ICMP
BWPing measures bandwidth and response times between two hosts using ICMP echo request/echo reply mechanism.
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cnping – minimal graphical IPV4 ping / HTTP ping tool
cnping is a minimal graphical IPV4 Ping/HTTP Ping Tool. It uses rawdraw so it is OS independent.
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Linux Candy: catclock – xclock with an enhanced cat mode
catclock is a fork of xclock which adds a ‘cat mode’. It’s free and open source, and part of our Linux Candy series.
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cTune – ncurses based internet radio player
cTune is an ncurses based internet radio player written in C. This is free and open source software.
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Aqualung – advanced music player
Aqualung is billed as an advanced music player that plays audio CDs, internet radio streams and podcasts as well as soundfiles. Here’s our review.
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