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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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most – paging software

May 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

May 5, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Reviews, Software

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

May 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

May 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

May 4, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

April 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

April 29, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

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Find

bfs – breadth-first search for your files

April 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

April 27, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

April 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

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

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Technology

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.

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echoping – network service response-time measurement

April 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

echoping measures response times for HTTP and other network protocols, supporting repeated tests, IPv6, encrypted connections and plugins.

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Network

xping – monitor multiple hosts with ICMP probes

April 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

xping continuously probes multiple hosts and displays responses as compact character timelines, making intermittent packet loss easier to spot.

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omping – test IP multicast network connectivity

April 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

omping tests multicast communication over IPv4 and IPv6, helping diagnose group membership, multicast routing and packet delivery.

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Network

fping – high-performance ICMP monitoring for multiple hosts

April 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

fping sends ICMP probes to many hosts efficiently, with host lists, packet-loss statistics, repeated checks and script-friendly output.

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Network

BWPing – ICMP bandwidth and latency measurement

April 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

BWPing measures bandwidth and response times between hosts using ICMP, with IPv4 and IPv6 support and configurable test parameters.

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cnping – graphical ping and HTTP response monitoring

April 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

cnping displays live network response times in a graphical window, supporting IPv4 ping, HTTP testing and adjustable graph settings.

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