Projects tagged ‘tool’

grep

Grep searches one or more input files for lines containing a match to a specified pattern. By default, grep prints the matching lines.

Metrics updated 15 May 08

rsync

rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer.

Metrics updated 15 May 08

GNU netcat

Netcat is a featured networking utility which reads and writes data across network connections, using the TCP/IP protocol. It is designed to be a reliable "back-end" tool that can be used directly or easily driven by other programs and scripts. At ... [More] the same time, it is a feature-rich network debugging and exploration tool, since it can create almost any kind of connection you would need and has several interesting built-in capabilities. [Less]

Metrics updated 16 May 08

ack

ack is a tool like grep, aimed at programmers with large trees of heterogeneous source code. ack is written purely in Perl, and takes advantage of the power of Perl's regular expressions. * Searches recursively through directories by default ... [More] , while ignoring .svn, CVS and other VCS directories. * ack ignores most of the crap you don't want to search * Lets you specify file types to search, as in --perl or --nohtml. * Color highlighting of search results. * Uses real Perl regular expressions, not a GNU subset. * ack is pure Perl, so consistent across all platforms. It even comes as a single standalone program with no module dependencies. [Less]

Metrics updated 15 May 08

Puppet

Puppet lets you centrally manage every important aspect of your system using a cross-platform specification language that manages all the separate elements normally aggregated in different files, like users, cron jobs, and hosts, along with obviously ... [More] discrete elements like packages, services, and files. Puppet's simple declarative specification language provides powerful classing abilities for drawing out the similarities between hosts while allowing them to be as specific as necessary, and it handles dependency and prerequisite relationships between objects clearly and explicitly. [Less]

Metrics updated 01 Apr 08

Poedit

Poedit is cross-platform gettext catalogs (PO files) editor which runs on Unix, Windows and Mac OS X. Unlike other editors, Poedit provides compact view of data and very effective UI.

Metrics updated about 21 hours ago

Facter

Facter is a cross-platform library for retrieving simple operating system facts, like operating system, linux distribution, or MAC address.

Metrics updated about 14 hours ago

Plagger

Plagger is a pluggable RSS/Atom feed aggregator and mashup creating software, written in pure Perl.

Metrics updated 16 May 08

WebLOAD

WebLOAD is an open source tool for load testing, stress testing and performance testing that is sponsored by RadView. It can load-test any Internet application, including applications that use Web 2.0 & AJAX. This project is based on twelve years ... [More] of code development invested in the previously proprietary WebLOAD, the award winning commercial performance testing solution for internet applications from Radview Software . WebLOAD is a great starting point for this project, with a community of more than 1,600 customers and a track record established on the merits of its robust functionality, efficient architecture, extensibility, support, quality and its ease of use. Join the WebLOAD community at webload.org [Less]

Metrics updated about 2 hours ago

file

File tests each argument in an attempt to classify it. There are three sets of tests, performed in this order: filesystem tests, magic number tests, and language tests. The first test that succeeds causes the file type to be printed. Starting with version 4, the file command is not much more than a wrapper around the "magic" library.