killport is a command-line utility for killing processes listening on specific ports. It’s designed to be simple, fast, and effective.
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Category: Utilities
mawk – pattern scanning and text processing language
mawk is an interpreter for the awk programming language. It’s free and open source software written in the C programming language.
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6 Best Free and Open Source eBook Tools
An electronic book (commonly abbreviated e-book) is a text and image-based publication which can be read on a computer or other digital devices such as an e-book reader.
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gema – general purpose macro processor
gema is a general purpose text processing utility based on the concept of pattern matching. It’s free and open source software.
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GoAWK – POSIX-compliant awk interpreter
GoAWK is a POSIX-compatible version of AWK, and additionally has a CSV mode for reading and writing CSV and TSV files.
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frawk – efficient awk-like language
frawk is a small programming language for writing short programs processing textual data. It’s written in Rust.
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gawk – implementation of the awk programming language
gawk is the GNU implementation of the Awk programming language, first developed for the UNIX operating system in the 1970s.
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Miller – small and powerful CLI tool to do all your data processing
Miller is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for data formats such as CSV, TSV, JSON, JSON Lines, and positionally-indexed.
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Opal – listen to relaxing background music
Opal is a small utility that’s designed to do one thing — listen to relaxing background music. It’s written in Java.
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Premake – simple build configuration
Premake is a command line utility which reads a scripted definition of a software project and uses it to generate project files for toolsets.
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just – save and run project-specific commands
just is a handy way to save and run project-specific commands. This is free and open source software written in Rust.
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pgcli – Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting
pgcli is a Postgres client that does auto-completion and syntax highlighting.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: psql
This article spotlights alternative tools to psql, a PostgreSQL interactive terminal.
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Trippy – network diagnostic tool
Trippy is a network diagnostic tool. It combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and helps in the analysis of networking issues.
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Eternal Terminal – remote shell
Eternal Terminal (ET) is a remote shell that automatically reconnects without interrupting the session. It’s written in C++.
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Mosh – replacement for interactive SSH terminals
Mosh is a replacement for interactive SSH terminals. It’s more robust and responsive, especially over Wi-Fi and cellular.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: age
This article spotlights free and open source alternative tools to age, a popular utility to encrypt and decrypt.
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rage – simple encryption tool
rage is a simple, modern, and secure file encryption tool. It features small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.
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Best Free and Open Source Alternatives to Apple Calculator
Apple’s Calculator app lets users perform basic arithmetic calculations with the standard calculator. With the scientific calculator you can also perform exponential, logarithmic, and trigonometric functions.
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xjobs – similar to xargs with enhanced support for multiprocessor machines
xjobs reads job descriptions line by line and executes them in parallel. It limits the number of parallel executing jobs.
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