cat derives its name from concatenation and provides other nifty options too. This article spotlights alternative tools to cat.
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Category: CLI
dirdiff – compute the differences between two directories
dirdiff efficiently computes the differences between two directories. It’s written in Rust.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: rename
This article spotlights alternative tools to rename which renames the specified files by replacing the first occurrence of expression in their name by replacement.
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diff2html-cli – generate HTML diffs
diff2html generates pretty HTML diffs from unified and git diff output in your terminal.
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yoctocolors – tiny command-line coloring package
yoctocolors bills itself as the smallest and fastest command-line coloring package.
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autorestic – easy backup CLI for restic
autorestic is a wrapper around the restic backup program. The restic cli can be a bit overwhelming and difficult to manage
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smash – find duplicate files super fast
smash is a CLI tool to smash through to find duplicate files efficiently.
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dyff – diff tool for YAML files
dyff is a diff tool for YAML files, and sometimes JSON.
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sn – sniff out build artifacts
sn is a tool to help you find build artifacts. It’s also a replacement for the du command.
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Zenith – turbo-charged top utility
Zenith is software that’s similar to top but displays histograms, and a wealth of other information such as CPU, GPU, network, and disk usage.
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space – disk space analyzer and cleaner
space is a command line interface (CLI) utility that can be used to visualize and manage disk space.
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Linux Candy: yosay – like cowsay but less cow
yosay is a tiny utility that displays a picture of Yeoman with accompanying text.
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diskus – compute disk usage
diskus is a very simple program that computes the total size of the current directory. It is a parallelized version of du -sh..
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wttr.in – curl the weather
wttr.in is a console-based weather forecast service that offers lots of options including various information representation methods.
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vtop – graphical activity monitor for the command line
vtop uses drawille to draw CPU and memory charts with Unicode braille characters, helping you visualize spikes.
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