a2ps - GNU a2ps - 'Anything to PostScript' converter and pretty-printer
aft - A document preparation system using an Almost Free Text input format
aftp - detailed access to FTP protocol from the shell
agrep - [non-free] Text search tool with support for approximate patterns
aish - ish/base64/uuencoded_file converter
align - Text filter tool that aligns columns
an - Very fast anagram generator.
analog - analyzes logfiles from web servers
autoclass - Automatic classification or clustering
b64 - base64 conversion
basename - strip directory and suffix from filenames
bash - The GNU Bourne Again SHell
bc - The GNU bc arbitrary precision calculator language
bdiff - diff for binary
bfr - nonblocking 8-bit-clean pipe buffer
bibtool - A tool for manipulating BibTeX data bases.
bidiv - BiDi viewer - command-line tool displaying logical Hebrew/Arabic
bogosort - sorts or doesn't sort files or standard input
bpatch - patch for binary
bsmtpd - Batched SMTP mailer for sendmail and postfix
btoa - Convert binary to ascii and vice versa
buffer - Buffering/reblocking program for tape backups, printing, etc.
buthead - copy all but the first few lines
cadaver - Command-line WebDAV client
cat - concatenate files and print on the standard output
catdoc - Changes Word files to ASCII text
ccrypt - Secure encryption and decryption of files and streams
cdif - Display word context diff
chase - Follow a symlink and print out its target file
checkurls - Checks to see if a file at a specified URL has been changed
cheops - Network swiss army knife
chgrep - Searches for and changes a given string
chgrp - change group ownership
chmod - change file access permissions
chown - change file owner and group
chpp - A powerful and simple preprocessor mostly for HTML
chsuf - Changes the suffix of file and/or directory names
cksum - checksum and count the bytes in a file
clpbar - command-line progress bar
clwrap - substitute input lines into commands
cmdftp - Command line FTP client which uses only passive mode
cmp - compare two files
colorcat - colorize based on regexes
colorifer - Utilities that color the output of other processes
colortail - A colour-able replacement for tail(1)
comm - compare two sorted files line by line
cost - General-purpose SGML/XML post-processing tool.
count - Counts textual items in a file
cp - copy files and directories
cpio - GNU cpio -- a program to manage archives of files.
cryptcat - TCP/IP swiss army knife extended with twofish encryption
csplit - split a file into sections determined by context lines
cstream - dd(1)-like tool, precise bandwidth limiting/reporting, fifo, TCP, audio support
curl - Get a file from an HTTP, HTTPS, FTP or GOPHER server
cut - remove sections from each line of files
dbf - Show and convert the content of dBASE III, IV, and 5.0 files
dd - convert and copy a file
ddskk - Simple Kana to Kanji conversion program
deroff - removes roff and preprocessor constructs
desift - general filterer and simple formatter
df - report filesystem disk space usage
di - Disk information utility, more powerful than df
diff - find differences between two files
diff3 - find differences between three files
dig - dns internet groper
dir - list directory contents
dirdiff - compare directories, output missing or out-of-date files
dirname - strip non-directory suffix from file name
docdiff - character/word-oriented diff
dog - Enhanced replacement for cat
dosunix - Manipulation of text files in a mixed DOS/Windows and Unix environment
du - estimate file space usage
echo - display a line of text
ent - A pseudorandom number sequence test program
env - run a program in a modified environment
expand - convert tabs to spaces
extract - Display meta-data from files of an arbitrary type.
ff - Bash script wrapper for recursive file-system procedures
fget - A commandline tool for mirroring remote files via FTP
fhist - File history, comparison and merge utilities
filters - Converts proprietary formats to XML-based formats
filters - a collection of filters, including B1FF and the Swedish Chef
find - search for files in a directory hierarchy
flog - A small STDIN-to-file logger with support for log rotation
fmt - simple optimal text formatter
fold - wrap each input line to fit in specified width
fop - [contrib] XML to PDF Translator
fpr - translate Fortran (ASA) text to plain text
fsgrep - Search for matches in files in a directory structure.
gawk - GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language
gbase - small numeric base converter
gcipher - A simple encryption tool
gfslicer - A utility to split and join files
gindent - GNU indent
glark - Search text files for complex regular expressions
glark - grep on steroids (boolean, coloring, context, pcre)
gloo - Two-way pipes and serial/network to STDIO pipes
grcat - Colorises files or output of commands
grep - GNU grep, egrep and fgrep
grepmail - search mailboxes for mail matching an expression
gres - global regex and substitute
groups - print the groups a user is in
gtml - An HTML pre-processor
gurgle - GNU report generator
gzip - Compresses and decompresses files
head - output the first part of files
hindent - HTML formatter
hlins - Insert URLs into html documents
host - An utility to query DNS servers
htget - a file grabber that will get files from HTTP servers
htp - An HTML pre-processor
hulgalugha - A very jerky text filter.
icecream - non-interactive stream download utility
install - copy files and set attributes
ispell - Spell checker
join - join lines of two files on a common field
kill - terminate a process
konwert - Charset conversion for files or terminal I/O
latte - The Language for Transforming Text (currently to html)
limo - Lists files in a custom way
ln - make links between files
logtail - Returns parts of logfiles that have not already been returned
logtool - Parse ASCII logfiles into ANSI, CSV, HTML formats
logtools - Russell's misc tools for managing log files.
lpr - BSD lpr/lpd line printer spooling system
ls - list directory contents
lynx - Text-mode WWW Browser
lzop - Fast file compressor similar to gzip, using the LZO library
m4 - a macro processing language
mawk - An implementation of new/posix awk
mcrypt - Encrypts files or streams
md5sum - compute and check MD5 message digest
mkdir - make directories
mmv - Move/Copy/Append/Link multiple files
mp4h - Macro processor for HTML documents
mrename - A tool for easy and automatic renaming of many files
mv - move (rename) files
mysqlclient - MySQL client tools
nawk - Brian Kernighan's pattern scanning and processing language
nd - A simple command line interface for WebDAV (RFC2518) server
ndir - Display the contents of directories
netcat - TCP/IP swiss army knife
netpipes - A group of shell utilities to connect programs to sockets
nget - auto-resuming command line NNTP file grabber
ngrep - grep for network traffic
nl - number lines of files
nmh - A set of electronic mail handling programs
nohup - run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty
nonsense - "A nonsense text generator"
nosql - a Relational Database Management System for Unix
obnc - OpenBSD's netcat: cleaner code, familiar interface, IPv6 support
od - dump files in octal and other formats
opensp - This package is a collection of SGML/XML tools called OpenSP
outguess - Universal Steganographic tool
par - Paragraph reformatter
paste - merge lines of files
patch - GNU patch utility
patchutils - A small collection of programs that operate on patch files
pax - Portable Archive Interchange
pcregrep - grep with Perl regexes
perl - Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister
pg - An implementation of System V's pg pager
pgbash - SQL Bash Shell for PostgreSQL
pgp - Pretty Good Privacy
picoSQL - A lightweight SQL-based, multi-user, client/server RDBMS
pipebench - Pipebench shows current throughput/amount of data through a pipe
plotutils - The GNU plotutils - package
postgresql-client - Front-end programs for PostgreSQL
pr - convert text files for printing
printenv - print all or part of environment
printf - format and print data
procps - The /proc file system utilities
pstotext - Extract text from PostScript and PDF files
ptx - produce a permuted index of file contents
puf - Parallel URL fetcher
pv - Shell pipeline element to meter data passing through
pwd - print name of current/working directory
realpath - Return the canonicalized absolute pathname
recode - Front end to the 'recode' translation library
redir - Redirect TCP connections
reformat - Reformats ASCII text
renameutils - A set of programs to make renaming of files easier
replace - Replaces strings in files or from standard output
rm - remove files or directories
rmdir - remove empty directories
rpl - [non-free] intelligent recursive search/replace utility
rxp - A validating XML parser
sablotron - an XSL processor fully implemented in C++
safecat - Safely write data to a directory using D. J. Bernstein's Maildir ideology
salias - A command-line tool to alias arguments of other programs
sarep - Command-line search and replace tool; written in Perl; handles regexps
saxon - An XSLT processor for Java
scout - A utility to harvest URLs from a given start point
sdd - Replacement for 'dd'
sdf - Simple Document Parser
sdiff - find differences between two files and merge interactively
sec - Simple Event Correlator
sed - The GNU sed stream editor
sendip - A commandline tool to allow sending arbitrary IP packets
seq - print a sequence of numbers
sharutils - shar, unshar, uuencode, uudecode
shorlfilter - Text filter to shorten long URLs using online redirection database
shred - delete a file securely, first overwriting it to hide its contents
shtool - GNU Portable shell tool
since - tail- work-alike that saves and uses state information
skk - Simple Kana to Kanji conversion program
slocate - A secure replacment of findutil's locate
smsclient - A program for sending short messages -
snarf - Another small command-line URL (http/ftp/gopher/finger) fetcher
sng - a specialized markup language for representing PNG contents
socat - Relay for bidirectional data transfer
socket - Create tcp socket and connect to stdin/out
socketpipe - Zero overhead remote process plumbing
sort - sort lines of text files
sp - James Clark's SGML parsing tools
spell - GNU Spell, a clone of Unix `spell'
split - split a file into pieces
sqlite - A command line interface for SQLite
squidclient - Command line URL extractor that talks to - squid
ss-dev - Command-line interface parsing library - headers and static libraries
ssed - The super sed stream editor
ssh - Secure rlogin/rsh/rcp replacement -
stat - display file or filesystem status
steghide - A steganography hiding tool
strings - print the strings of printable characters in files
stunnel - Universal SSL tunnel for network daemons
suckblow - Two companion utilities for transferring data over a TCP socket
sum - checksum and count the blocks in a file
surfraw - a fast unix command line interface to WWW
swatch - The Simple WATCHer and filter
swath - Thai word segmentation program
sync - flush filesystem buffers
sysutils - Miscellaneous small system utilities.
t2t - Converts delimited text files to HTML tables
tac - concatenate and print files in reverse
tail - output the last part of files
tar - GNU tar
tcpdump - A powerful tool for network monitoring and data acquisition
tcpflow - TCP flow recorder
tcs - Character set translator.
tee - read from standard input and write to standard output and files
test - check file types and compare values
textchk - This package provides a text analysis system.
tidy - HTML syntax checker and reformatter
tmv - Renames files/directories according to sed scripts
touch - change file timestamps
tpipe - Pipeline plumbing tool
tr - translate or delete characters
tree - displays directory tree, in color
tsort - perform topological sort
txt2tags - generate html and other formats from wiki-type markup
ucspi-unix - UNIX-domain socket client-server command-line tools
unac - Removes accents from strings
unaccent - Replace accented letters by their unaccented equivalent
unexpand - convert spaces to tabs
unhtml - Removing the markup tags from a HTML file
uniq - remove duplicate lines from a sorted file
units-filter - Parser for expressions concerning physical values
unix2dos - Translate ASCII files from DOS (cr/lf) to UNIX (lf)
unrtf - RTF to other formats converter
untex - Remove LaTeX commands from input
unzip - De-archiver for .zip files
urlview - Extracts URLs from text
userv - `user services' - program call across trust boundaries
vcp - Copies files and directories
vdir - list directory contents
wc - print the number of bytes, words, and lines in files
wdiff - Compares two files word by word
wget - retrieves files from the web
wgrab - Automatically retrieves selected parts of Websites
who - show who is logged on
wpp - The Web Preprocessor - a Perl script to preprocess HTML files
xalan - XSLT processor
xargs - build and execute command lines from standard input
xclip - command line interface to X selections
xcut - Manipulate X cut buffers from the commandline
xdelta - A diff utility which works with binary files
xlhtml - A program for converting Microsoft Excel Files .xls
xlreader - convert Excel to TSV, CSV, or SQL inserts
xml-core - XML infrastructure and XML catalog file support
xml-to-sexp - Program to convert XML to into Lisp S-Exp
xml2 - Convert between XML, HTML, CSV and a line-oriented format
xmlclitools - Command line tools for manipulating XML data
xmldtf - xml to/from delimited text formats
xmltoman - simple XML to man converter
xpipe - pipeline framework in Java for XML
xplot - a simple x-y column data plotter for X.
xsel - More than just cat for the X selection.
xsltproc - XSLT command line processor
xtail - like "tail -f", but works on truncated files, directories, more
yes - output a string repeatedly until killed
zcat - decompresses files to stdout
zftp - Cernlib's file transfer program
zip - Archiver for .zip files
zipdiff - differences between zip archives