Utilities Archives - Page 53 of 72

choose – human-friendly and fast alternative to cut

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.

less is a pager. A pager is a program that displays text files.

most is a more/less style paging program. It supports multiple windows and scrolls left/right. This is free and open source software.

slit is a modern pager for viewing logs. The goal is to get more from logs than most other pagers can – and to do so in less time.

Think cat, think Markdown and you’re set. mdcat renders the basic CommonMark syntax and highlights code blocks.

The main program is grcat, which acts as a filter, i.e. taking standard input, colourising it and writing to standard output.

Coreutils is a package of software containing implementations for many of the basic tools, including cat and tac.