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rargs – xargs + awk with pattern matching support

Think of rargs as similar to xargs and awk with pattern-matching support. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

parallel is a shell tool for executing jobs in parallel using one or more computers. This tool is written in Perl.

cli-chess is a command-line chess program that lets you play online against human players and offline against the computer.

We spotlight alternative tools to hexdump, a utility that displays file contents in hexadecimal, octal, or ascii.

xxd creates a hex dump of a given file or standard input. It can also convert a hex dump back to its original binary form.

uq is a simple, user-friendly alternative to sort | uniq. It removes duplicate lines from the output, regardless of the order.

The semiuniq program reads over lines of input and write lines of output that are “semi-unique” by eliminating repeated lines that are close.

We explore free and open source alternatives to uniq, a venerable utility that reports or omits repeated lines.

runiq offers an efficient way (in both time and space) to filter duplicate entries (lines) from textual input.

nauniq is similar to the Unix command uniq but detects repeated lines even if they are not adjacent. It’s written in Perl.

huniq remove duplicates from the given input. Note that huniq does not sort the input, it just removes duplicates.

difftastic is a structural diff tool that understands syntax. It uses tree-sitter to build a parse tree.

We explore free and open source alternatives to ps, a command that reports a snapshot of the current processes.

procs is a replacement for ps. It has cross-platform support running under Linux and Windows, with experimental support for macOS.

pstree shows the currently running processes as a tree. This is free and open source software written in the C programming language.