moreutils: General purpose UNIX tools that fill gaps in the existing UNIX toolset

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https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/


List of tools

  • chronic: runs a command quietly unless it fails
  • combine: combine the lines in two files using boolean operations
  • errno: look up errno names and descriptions
  • ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output
  • ifne: run a program if the standard input is not empty
  • isutf8: check if a file or standard input is utf-8
  • lckdo: execute a program with a lock held
  • mispipe: pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first
  • parallel: run multiple jobs at once
  • pee: tee standard input to pipes
  • sponge: soak up standard input and write to a file
  • ts: timestamp standard input
  • vidir: edit a directory in your text editor
  • vipe: insert a text editor into a pipe
  • zrun: automatically uncompress arguments to command

CSVfix: Windows/UNIX command-line tool for dealing with CSV data

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http://neilb.bitbucket.org/csvfix/

CSVfix is a command-line tool specifically designed to deal with CSV data. With it you can, among other things:

  • Reorder, remove, split and merge fields
  • Convert case, trim leading & trailing spaces
  • Search for specific content using regular expressions
  • Filter out duplicate data or data on exclusion lists
  • Enrich with data from other sources
  • Add sequence numbers and file source information
  • Split large CSV files into smaller files based on field contents
  • Perform arithmetic calculations on individual fields
  • Validate CSV data against a collection of validation rules
  • Convert between CSV and fixed format, XML, SQL and DSV