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csplit – split a file into two or more smaller files determined by context lines

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.

Apple Font Book lets you organise fonts into collections and libraries. We recommend the best free and open source alternatives.

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.

systeroid is “sysctl on steroids”. It can do everything that sysctl does and even more.

This article spotlights an alternative tool to sysctl. It’s part of our Alternatives to popular CLI tools series.

streampager is a pager for command output or large files. Its main program, sp, accepts streamed input on stdin for paging.

This article spotlights alternative tools to more.

moar is a pager. It reads and displays UTF-8 encoded text from files or pipelines. Free and open source software.

les is a pager program similar to less and more, with several improved features. This is free and open source software.

ov is a feature rich terminal pager. It is an alternative to less, more, and tail -f. It also offers a useful function for tabular text.