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please – polite regex-first sudo alternative

please is a small utility to delegate accurate least privilege access with ease. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

Fast Unix Commands provides modern UNIX commands.The goals of the project are to provide performance, efficiency, and usability.

Sed-Go is an implementation of sed in Go. This sed engine can be embedded in your program.

sd is an intuitive find and replace CLI. sd uses regex syntax that you already know from JavaScript and Python.

bropages is a highly readable supplement to man pages. The CLI tool shows simple, concise examples for commands with syntax highlighting.

tlrc is a tldr client written in Rust. The tldr-pages project is a collection of community-maintained help pages for command-line tools.

tcount is a utility to count your code by tokens and patterns in the syntax tree. It’s written in the Rust language.

This article spotlights alternative tools to sudo, a command which lets you execute a command as another user.

The doas utility is a program originally written for OpenBSD which allows a user to run a command as though they were another user.

pkexec allows an authorized user to execute a command as another user.

su allows commands to be run with a substitute user and group ID.

dzdo is a command-line tool used to execute commands with the privileges of another user, such as the superuser or root user.

dnslookup is a simple command line utility to make DNS lookups. The tool supports DNS protocols: plain DNS, DoH, DoT, DoQ, DNSCrypt.

dog is a command-line DNS client. It has colourful output, understands normal command-line argument syntax.

ldns includes a DNS lookup utility named drill. It can perform DNS lookups and display the answers. Written in C.