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doas – execute commands 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.

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

SLOCCount is a set of tools for counting physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) in many languages of a potentially large set of programs.

mlocate is a locate/updatedb implementation, a utility for finding files by name quickly. This is free and open source software.

ObexFTP makes mobile devices that feature the OBEX protocol and that adhere to the OBEX FTP standard accessible.

GNOME Bluetooth is a fork of bluez-gnome focused on integration with the GNOME desktop environment.

Gcolor3 is a color selection dialog written in GTK+ 3.

Gpick is an application that allows you to sample any color from anywhere on the desktop, and use it to create palettes.

ictree is like tree but interactive. This terminal-based program takes a list of contents of directories and displays them in a pager/

Tree is a handy little utility to display a tree view of directories. This is free and open source software written in C.

cyanrip is a fully-featured CD ripping program able to take out most of the tedium.

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.