Top 15 GNU Core Utilities Alternative and Similar Softwares | Oct 2024

The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, needed for Unix-like operating systems. It is a combination of a number of earlier packages, including textutils, shellutils, and fileutils, along with some other miscellaneous utilities.

1. win-bash

win-bash win-bash is a Windows port of the famous GNU bash (see GNU Bash homepage).The goal of the win-bash project is to finish the port to Windows and provide a full functional bash.exe binary for windows nt and derived systems. win-bash can be used as a input shell as well as......

2. dateutils

dateutils Toolset for computations involving date and time values in the shell, with a strong focus on usability within shell scripts.Their target market are shell scripts that need date calculations and/or calendar conversion, and as such they are highly pipe-able and modelled after their well-known (non-date-aware) cousins:+ dateseq (vs. seq)+ dateconv+......

3. dash

dash DASH is a POSIX-compliant implementation of /bin/sh that aims to be as small as possible. It does this without sacrificing speed where possible. In fact, it is significantly faster than bash (the GNU Bourne-Again SHell) for most tasks. DASH stands for Debian Almquist Shell.......

4. RunWithParameters

RunWithParameters Tiny tool, which allows passing command-line parameters to any application from the Explorer context-menu. Comes with a database of parameters available in popular software. Remember previously used parameters in a pop-down history.......

5. FIGlet

FIGlet FIGlet - display large characters made up of ordinary screen characters......

6. Take Command

Take Command The most powerful Windows console command line tools and batch scripting solution available. Create batch file commands and Windows batch files that you can use every day - for everything from launching applications to serious file management and scripting. Its the command line and console environment for programmers, operations and......

7. py3createtorrent

py3createtorrent Create torrents via command line!py3createtorrent is a comprehensive shell/commandline utility for creating torrents (Linux & Windows). It's a GPL-licensed Python v3.1 script.......

8. PDFx

PDFx PDFx is a tool to extract infos and URLs from a PDF, and to easily download all referenced PDFs......

9. vijazedan ghost mouse

vijazedan ghost mouse This is an app that allows you to record the movements of the mouse and save it to then perform the recorded movements and cliks with the mouse without user interaction, this can be useful to do some tasks. It has two modes, GUI mode for user interface and terminal/console......

10. Multican

Multican a Canon EOS class remote control utility which is able to remote control 350D, 300D, 30D, 20D and 5D. It is possible to control more of such cameras in the same time up to six cameras attached. Multican allows scripted remote control of multiple cameras.......

11. wakemeonlan

wakemeonlan Collect active network systems, like a network ascanner, in the local network and send WOL packets to wake up them using their MAC address.......

12. PDF2Word (PDF to Word)

PDF2Word (PDF to Word) PDF2Word (PDF to Word) software exports the text, images and other contents from any PDF document into MS Word document format (RTF or Word), so you can edit and reuse your PDF content. PDF2Word (PDF to Word) preserves the original PDF text, layout and bitmap images in the generated Word......

13. Gtkdialog

Gtkdialog Gtkdialog is a small utility for fast and easy GUI building. It can be used to create dialog boxes for almost any interpreted and compiled programs which is a very attractive feature since the developer does not have to learn various GUI languages for the miscellaneous programming languages.......

14. rush

rush rush is a replacement for the unix shell (bash, zsh, etc) which uses pure Ruby syntax. Grep through files, find and kill processes, copy files - everything you do in the shell, now in Ruby.......

15. toilet

toilet The TOIlet project attempts to create a free replacement for the ?FIGlet utility. TOIlet stands for “The Other Implementation’s letters”, coined after FIGlet’s “Frank, Ian and Glen’s letters”.......