moreutils
A collection of small general-purpose Unix command-line tools such as sponge, chronic and ifne.
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Package managers
- Homebrew
brew install moreutils
About moreutils
moreutils gathers Unix tools that fill gaps in the standard toolbox. The best known is sponge, which soaks up all input before writing, so a pipeline can read and overwrite the same file.
Others include chronic, which runs a command quietly unless it fails, combine for boolean operations on the lines of two files, errno for looking up error names, ifdata for network interface details without parsing ifconfig, and ifne for running a program only when input is present. The collection also includes vidir, ts and parallel.
Strengths
- sponge makes in-place pipeline edits safe
- Many small tools in one package
- Useful in shell scripts and cron jobs
Limitations
- Its parallel command differs from GNU Parallel
- Tools are small single-purpose utilities rather than one program
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree to use.
- License
- Open source, license not stated
- Developer
- Joey Hess
- Platforms
- Linux, Command line
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Account
- Not required
- Works offline
- Yes
- Best suited for
- Shell scripting on Unix-like systems
- Categories
- CLI tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
GNU Coreutils
The core GNU file, shell and text utilities, including ls, cp, mv and sort.
uutils coreutils
A cross-platform rewrite of the GNU coreutils in Rust, covering commands such as ls, cp and sort.
GNU Parallel
A command-line utility that runs shell commands and scripts in parallel across CPU cores or machines.
Pipe Viewer
A terminal tool, pv, that shows progress, throughput and time remaining for data in a pipeline.
entr
Runs a command whenever the files you pipe into it change.
Pueue
A command-line task manager that queues shell commands and runs them in the background.
