ack is designed as an alternative to grep for programmers. It is highly portable and runs on any platform that runs Perl.
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Category: Utilities
The Silver Searcher – code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster
The Silver Searcher is a tool for searching code. It started off as a clone of Ack, but their feature sets have since diverged slightly.
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CGrep – context-aware grep for C and C++ source files
CGrep is a context-aware grep for source codes. It’s implemented using Clang’s libtooling libraries. Free and open source software.
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sift – fast and powerful alternative to grep
sift is an alternative that aims for both speed and flexibility – i.e. adding features while trying to reach the performance of grep.
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ugrep – ultra fast grep with interactive TUI
The ugrep utility searches any given input files, selecting lines that match one or more patterns. Free and open source software.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: kill
This article spotlights alternative tools to kill.
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pkill – kills a given program name
pkill is a Python script that is compatible from 2.6 upwards through 3.2. pkill kills a process by its name.
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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.
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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.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: traceroute
traceroute tracks the route packets taken from an IP network on their way to a given host. We recommend the best alternatives.
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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.
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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.
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Layer Four Traceroute – multi-protocol traceroute engine
LFT, short for Layer Four Traceroute, is a sort of ‘traceroute’ that often works much faster.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Microsoft Windows Terminal
Windows Terminal is billed as “a modern, fast, efficient, powerful, and productive terminal application”. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.
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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.
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