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fcp – faster alternative to cp

fcp is a significantly faster alternative to the classic Unix cp command. It’s optimized for systems with an SSD.

gcp is a user-friendly file copier.Its name used to stand for “Goffi’s CoPier”, but was changed into a recursive acronym: Gcp CoPier.

cyanrip is a fully-featured CD ripping program able to take out most of the tedium.

Whipper is a Python 3 (3.6+) CD-DA ripper based on the morituri project (CDDA ripper for *nix systems aiming for accuracy over speed).

pydf is an all-singing, all-dancing, fully colourised df-clone. It’s written in the Python programming language and is public domain.

dfrs displays the amount of disk space available on the file system containing each file name argument in human-readable format by default.

Atuin replaces your existing shell history with a SQLite database, and records additional context for your commands.

This article spotlights alternative tools to split, a utility that splits a file into pieces.

csplit is a utility that splits a file into two or more smaller files determined by context lines.

lxSplit is a simple tool for splitting files and joining the split files on unix-like platforms. It’s written in C.

csplitb is a tool like csplit but which splits binary files based on content boundaries rather than index boundaries.

This article spotlights alternative tools to cut.

ccut is a UNIX ‘cut’ command. It adds a couple of extra features (and a couple of features missing). This is free and open source software.

choose is a human-friendly and fast alternative to cut and (sometimes) awk. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.

hck is close to drop in replacement for cut that can use a regex delimiter instead of a fixed string. It’s written in Rust.