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subedit – command-line subtitle editor

subedit is a command-line subtitle editor written in Bash. The script generally works with srt (SubRip) and sub (MicroDVD) subtitle files.

htmlq is like jq, but for HTML. It uses CSS selectors to extract bits of content from HTML files. This is free and open source software.

zet is a command-line utility for doing set operations on files considered as sets of lines. It’s free and open source software.

JavaSnoop is a tool for testing (re: hacking) Java desktop applications or applets.

killport is a command-line utility for killing processes listening on specific ports. It’s designed to be simple, fast, and effective.

mawk is an interpreter for the awk programming language. It’s free and open source software written in the C programming language.

tuifeed is a news feed reader with a fancy terminal user interface. It allows you read news from your favourite RSS and Atom sources,

Elfeed is an Emacs Web Feed Reader whose design inspired by notmuch, an email client. It’s written in Emacs Lisp.

gema is a general purpose text processing utility based on the concept of pattern matching. It’s free and open source software.

GoAWK is a POSIX-compatible version of AWK, and additionally has a CSV mode for reading and writing CSV and TSV files.

frawk is a small programming language for writing short programs processing textual data. It’s written in Rust.

gawk is the GNU implementation of the Awk programming language, first developed for the UNIX operating system in the 1970s.

Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for data formats such as CSV, TSV, JSON, JSON Lines, and positionally-indexed.

This article spotlights alternative tools to awk, software specialized for textual data manipulation.

This article showcases CLI ebook readers for Linux. We only feature free and open source software here.