Alternatives to popular CLI tools: grep and cat (UPDATED)
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: grep
This article spotlights alternative tools to grep.
grep is a useful command to search for matching patterns in a file. If you are a system admin who needs to scrape through log files or a developer trying to find matches in a code file, grep is a powerful command to use.
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: cat
This article spotlights alternative tools to cat.
cat derives its name from concatenation and provides other nifty options too. For example, it can be be used to write contents to a file by typing them from the terminal itself.
Enterprising users will appreciate you can display the contents of a file using the shell builtin read.
UPDATE
A couple more:
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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: sysctl
This article spotlights an alternative tool to sysctl. It's part of our Alternatives to popular CLI tools series.
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Best Free and Open Source CLI Data Hashing Tools
Hashing is the process of passing data through a formula that produces a condensed fixed-value representation, called a hash value.