Questions tagged [utilities]
small programs used on the command line to do a specific job
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Find contents of one file in another, and replace with FF
I have a binary file called rockx.dat, and a bunch of other binary files rockx_#.pmf.
I want to find the contents of the pmf files in the dat file, and replace them with FF. So if the pmf file is 500 ...
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Is there a linux local tool to view, search, add contacts to/from a .vcf file?
I've downloaded my contact list in a .vcf format to my linux machine. I would like to be able to consult it without having to connect to the internet. The search feature is most important. I've got a ...
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Generic text expansion tool in Linux?
Is there a generic text expansion tool in Linux? I have to type some same strings frequently and I want to use abbreviation to type faster.
For example, I type a lot "symbol testapp/testapp.debug" in ...
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Is there a utility/tool to “convert” bash functions to zsh functions?
On my new Catalina Macbook, zsh has been designated as the default shell. I've never used zsh, but I'm not exactly fluent in bash either. I have at least 3 options:
start learning zsh
stick with bash ...
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How to get info on disk drives with powershell
Is it not possible to install Get-Disk on Linux?
PS /home/thufir/powershell>
PS /home/thufir/powershell> Get-Module -ListAvailable
Directory: /home/thufir/.local/share/powershell/Modules
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turbostat doesn't show only desired columns with --show option
I'm using tubostat in Manjaro 18.1.5:
$ pacman -Qs turbostat
local/turbostat 5.4-3 (linux-tools)
the man page says:
--show column show only the specified built-in columns. May be invoked ...
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Utility to Visualize CPU and Memory Usage based on process tree
Modern desktop applications spawn several child processes to offload tasks to them. Notable examples in this regard are:
Google chrome - spawns a new process per tab
VSCode - spawns a bunch of ...
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What requirements must a computer program meet to be considered as part to the unix toolkit?
It is stated here that:
The Unix operating system introduced the idea of a toolkit. That is, rather than having a few generalized and complex utilities programs, the system contains a toolkit of ...
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How can I check a field in a CSV file using Linux tools?
I would like to accomplish the following using Linux bash and/or Linux utilities.
I'm running Debian 10 on a cloud server.
I have a csv file of the following form:
"2019-12-10_15-03-50",13,"...
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turbostat - TSC_MHz average MHz that the TSC ran during the entire interval
When using 'turbostat' command, we can see 'TSC_MHz' field data.
What does 'TSC ran' here mean?
OS in idle state?
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cut now has a line length limitation?
I had a script, with a 25,000 character input that I was using 'cut' on:
...\n" | cut -c -$LENGTH
I didn't use it that frequently, but it was working (oh, about a year or two ago). Granted, my ...
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Given a yacc grammar, output a program that generates text-file (or graphviz) parse trees?
Rather than generating the normal .tab.c file, generate some .tree.c file, s.t $ .tree text outputs the parse tree of the file text?
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Why Magic VLSI cad tool is not shwoing toolbar?
After installing magic vlsi editor when I am opening magic with command prompt I can't find rest of the toolbar elements in toolbar . How do I get it? is there something else I need to install?
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Detect alphabet / keyboard layout from string
Update / Note:
If anyone is doing this or something similar, note that it looks like xdotool does some more underlying work. I have not checked the source for how it actually types. But the case is ...
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tar flexibility for -f
In the following command for example, tar -xzv works but tar -xzvf fails:
wget ${target_url} -O - | tar -xzv --strip-components 1 -C ${web_application_root}/${domain}
I understand I download a data ...
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how to run fio verify reliably in linux
I am using fio over disks exposed through iscsi. I am giving these params in fio
fio --name=randwrite --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=64 --rw=randrw --rwmixread=50 --bs=4k-2M --direct=1 -filename=data --...
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Popular/historical tools for managing license headers in source code?
I've never been in the need of adding/updating/replacing license headers into every source code file in a big project, but now I am. And I always thought there was some popular tool for doing it, ...
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Is there a way to convert flac files to ape?
I need to convert flac files to ape. Googled for that topic, but seems like ape file is outdated, so no solution was found. Any tools, ideas to resolve the problem?
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What's the difference between ledmon and ledctl?
Both are LED control tools released by Intel.
https://linux.die.net/man/8/ledmon
https://linux.die.net/man/8/ledctl
What's their difference?
Do I need ledmon to be executed first to run ledctl?
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BMC executed 'ipmitool power soft' but host has no reaction
In my understanding, OS seems to need to install ipmitool ( I am not sure ) to receive this command from BMC (? or OS don't need it ?), but I am not sure which package.
When BMC send 'ipmitool power ...
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What tool can check internet TX/RX status as top/htop?
For processor usage, we can use top or htop.
For internet status, I would like to know the current TX/RX status, any command/tool to use?
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scrypt key calculator
scrypt is a password-based key derivation function that can be tuned to use a large amount of memory.
I want a command-line interface to calculate the key given my own values for parameters: password,...
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How to convert xqx files into actual text using a command like xqxdecode?
Let's say I have an XQX file (A printer stream file) that I got from LibreOffice Writer, how can I extract the text from that that file using xqxdecode?
After reading the documentation for the ...
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Pipe viewer logging
Using the pipe viewer (pv) utility, I can visually monitor the data flow going through a pipe.
I would however like to be able to log the data flow in a file instead of dynamically viewing it in a ...
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A way to universally “Show in Directory” using default file manager
I need to programatically "Show in Directory" a file (or another directory, but that's less important).
I intend to copy the feature from browsers that allows the user to click a button to open the ...
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Tracking all file changes in a unix host
I'm evaluating a tool and I need to identify all files (including system config files) added, changed or removed by this application (it is installed using pip).
After installing on a external host, ...
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Select area on screen with pointer
Is there a command line tool that let one select an area with pointer and print the result to terminal?
Much like with various screen capture tools, but I want the coordinates.
For example x,y,width,...
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Creating a folder that aggregates files from other folders
I'm trying to organise my directories for different classes such that each of them has a todo folder.
something like this:
|--classes/
| |--classOne/
| | |--todo/
| | | |--read.pdf
| | |--...
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Redirect DB traffic dependent on type of request
I have a Postgres cluster managed by Patroni and want to be able to redirect DB requests to the replica if they are read requests and write requests to the master.
Does anyone know of any tools that ...
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List files that are not H264 encoded
I want to convert any files in a large media collection that are not encoded with H264. In order to do that I need a tool to list all the files, I need to convert. There are a lot of files to go ...
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What substitutes Debian's ufw in Arch?
When I use Debian I install ufw then running the following code to unfilter my desired ports:
ufw --force enable
ufw allow 22,25,80,443
As I think to move to Arch Linux I'd like to ask what ...
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Tool for creating and calling folder structure templates?
Is there a Linux utility for creating templates for directory structures, outside of the scripts packaged with a DE like Gnome or LXDE? (I run openbox and would like to avoid a DE at all costs)
There ...
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Realigning GPT partitions to 4k sector boundaries?
If I have an HDD with GPT, and the partitions are not aligned to 4k sector boundaries, is there a tool to realign the partitions to 4k sector boundaries?
Suppose I have UEFI stuff on the HDD in ...
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Linux tool for http downloading using multiple connections via multiple interfaces
Is there a tool that allows http file download using multiple network interfaces and multiple connections? I'd like to test my overall internet connection speed by downloading a large file via ...
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How can I get the “Google Response” to a query in the terminal?
I want to be able to get this terse result Google returns for some queries, from the command line:
I tried Googler, but it returns this:
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Difference between find and GNU find
Consider some common *nix systems (say Debian, CentOS, Arch and Kali).
I always used find; I don't recall using GNU find, but from one example I've seen I assumed the syntax of GNU find might be ...
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Why pdftops gives extra padding but pdf2ps doesn't?
I tried both pdftops and pdf2ps to convert a pdf figure(no text) into eps.
pdf2ps created a ps figure same to the original one, but the ps file produced by pdftops contains an extra white padding/...
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Which programs configure the network based on the settings in /etc/network/interfaces?
I have installed Stretch and I find that NetworkManager gets in my way more often than not, and I would rather familiarize myself with network interface administration at a lower level based on the ...
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Tell Tab and Space indented files apart
I was using the file command to gather information about some text files (well, XML files, but the XML info did not interest me), but there was one bit of information that I missed in the output: ...
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How to find the DNS server configured in Ubuntu and networking tools in unix?
I have heard that DNS configuration can only be IP address and not host name. How do I configure DNS server in ubuntu machine.
If it should be IP address only then why this configuration shows the ...
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CLI: Editing binary strings
There's a nice CLI binutils utility for interpreting binary files, and outputting legible strings, in a cat-like fashion. It's called strings.
If you try to cat a binary file, you'll see a bunch of ...
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Is there any “base” Debian metapackage?
I've used Debian's Raspberry Pi image builder to create arm64 image, but the problem is it's too barebones. Are there any metapackages that installs useful tools, equivalent to Ubuntu's ubuntu-...
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Why does sort -k4nr and sort -k 4 -n -r give different results? [duplicate]
Here is my file, the first line is not part of it (the one with Fname ..)
Fname Lname Age Children
John Doe 61 2
Mary Jane 32 5
Delta Cross 30 5
Sui Ace 24 1
I want to sort this file ...
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Command similar to 'yes' but that outputs newlines?
Is there a Linux command similar to yes but one that outputs newlines? Something like
$ yes enter
That outputs
\n\n\n\n\n\n
Similar too how yes 'foo' outputs
foo
foo
foo
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How to get the information about the status of data receiving and sending in ethernet?
Is there any tools to get the information about status of data receiving and sending in Ethernet (Real-time information is better, GUI tools is better)?
The information includes:
sending and ...
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crunch wordlist generation with all combinations
I'm trying to generate a wordlist in order to use it to bruteforce my own Truecrypt container. I do know parts of the password, its built up using blocks of other known passwords to increase length, ...
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Is there a fp8 (Fast PAQ) compression utility for linux?
I'm trying to compress a large archive of similar JPG images. The best compression algorithm I've found so far is fp8. In this question I show my tests and ask for better options. But fp8 is the best ...
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Tool for easy file-update and restore
I am looking for a commandline-tool that provides me functionality for local udating single files. So I am not talking about remotely updating a bunch of servers. But update some files and have an ...
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Main difference between tr (translate) to sed and awk
AFAIC both sed and awk are general purpose text processing utilities with whom a user can get quite similar results, in a slightly different syntax:
With both, a user could add, replace/translate and ...
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Write scripts as stream-filters or parameter-only tools? [closed]
I'm writing a set of shell helper scripts - a kind of toolbox for simple data/text_files processing.
In it there will be some simple tools like, for example: dateToTimestamp or showParagraphHeads.
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