Category: CLI

pkill is a Python script that is compatible from 2.6 upwards through 3.2. pkill kills a process by its name.

gkill – interactive process killer

gkill is an interactive process killer for Linux and macOS. It’s written in the Go programming language and MIT licensed.

epkill – procps utilities with environment constraints

epkill is a fork of procps-ng verion 3.3.10, but only with the utilities pidof, pgrep, and pkill. GPL licensed software.

Open Visual Trace Route – visual traceroute tool

Open Visual Trace Route is a cross-platform visual traceroute tool. It’s written in the Java programming language.

Dublin Traceroute – NAT-aware multipath tracerouting tool

Dublin Traceroute is a NAT-aware multipath traceroute tool. It’s written in the Go and C++ programming languages.

Layer Four Traceroute – multi-protocol traceroute engine

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

bfs – breadth-first search for your files

bfs is a variant of the UNIX find command that operates breadth-first rather than depth-first. It’s written in C.

bfind – minimalistic alternative to find

bfind is a minimalistic alternative to find that is designed to be efficient that locating files. Written in C.

ffind – sane replacement for command line file search

ffind allows quick and easy recursive search for files in the command line. This is free and open source software.

friendly-find – friendly file finder

friendly-find is the friendly file finder. It’s meant to be a more usable replacement for find. If you’ve used ack, then ffind is to find as ack is to grep.

OpenRDAP – RDAP command line client

OpenRDAP is an command line RDAP client implementation in Go. RDAP is a replacement for WHOIS.

ipwhois – retrieve and parse whois data for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses

ipwhois is a Python package focused on retrieving and parsing whois data for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses.

Alternatives to popular CLI tools: whois

April 25, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software, Utilities

whois searches for an object in a RFC 3912 database. We spotlight alternative tools to whois.

rdapper – simple console-based RDAP client

rdapper is a simple RDAP client. It uses Net::RDAP to retrieve data about internet resources. It’s written in Perl.

jwhois – internet whois client