Open Source by Tonkünstler-on-the-Bund

Unix Tools

 
Current sources on this subject are either outdated or indiscriminate. In some places, obsolete knowledge is being purveyed to students. This page presents a selection of modern tools as used at TKB.

• s/grep/ripgrep/
  • benchmarks
• s/find/fd/
  • benchmarks
• s/find/bfs/
  • benchmarks
• s/sed/sd/
  • benchmarks
• qsv
  • performance tuning
• s/bc/bc-gh/
  • benchmarks

• s/sudo/sudo-rs/
• s/sudo -u/s6-setuidgid/
  • FGA
• s/md5sum/b3sum/
• mosh+tmux
• cwebp+zopflipng
• s/xargs|while read/parallel/
  • differences with xargs
• sponge
  • part of moreutils
• s/cat/bat -p/
  • its chief improvement is in adding syntax highlighting for the ‘main use’ of cat, which is to print on the terminal without using a pager.
• s/cd/zoxide+fzf/
  • algorithm

• s/fortune-mod/fortuna/
  • t18d/fortuna