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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: time

This article spotlights alternative tools to time, a simple tool that provides timing statistics about a program run.

This article spotlights alternative tools to cksum, a tool to compute and verify file checksums.

This article spotlights alternative tools to xargs, a command that builds and executes command lines from standard input.

cli-chess is a command-line chess program that lets you play online against human players and offline against the computer.

We spotlight alternative tools to hexdump, a utility that displays file contents in hexadecimal, octal, or ascii.

We explore free and open source alternatives to uniq, a venerable utility that reports or omits repeated lines.

We explore free and open source alternatives to ps, a command that reports a snapshot of the current processes.

We explore free and open source alternatives to lsof, a utility that lists file information about files opened by processes.

This article spotlights alternative tools to bc, an arbitrary precision calculator language.

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