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GDB – GNU Project Debugger

November 11, 2023 Erik Karlsson CLI, Programming

Explore GDB, the GNU Debugger for Linux, with conditional breakpoints, stack inspection, remote debugging, scripting and reverse execution.

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gzip – standard lossless file compression utility

October 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

gzip provides command-line compression with Deflate, stream processing, integrity testing, recursive operation and rsyncable output.

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parallel – execute shell commands concurrently

June 12, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

Parallel runs shell jobs concurrently on local or remote systems, with output grouping, progress reporting, job logs and resume support.

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csplit – split files by context

May 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

csplit divides text files by line numbers or regular expressions, with repeat patterns, custom names and controls for empty output files.

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alive – periodic network connectivity checker

April 20, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

alive periodically contacts configured network hosts, with randomised intervals, multiple targets and automatic configuration reloading.

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coreutils

Drop-in replacements for Core Utilities

March 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI

The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing implementations for many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, which are used on Unix-like operating systems.

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