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dd_rescue – data recovery and data protection tool

dd_rescue copies data from one file or block device to another. You can specify file positions (called seek and Skip in dd).

Hypercalc is an interpreted calculator program designed to calculate extremely large numbers.

This article spotlights alternative tools to time, a simple tool that provides timing statistics about a program run.

Performance counters for Linux are a kernel-based subsystem that provide a framework for all things performance analysis.

Flemozi is a simple, fast, and lightweight picker for desktop operating systems. It’s written in Dart.

rust-parallel is a command-line utility to execute commands in parallel and aggregate their output. It’s written in Rust.

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.

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.

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.