Top 15 dateutils Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

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
+ dateadd
+ datediff
+ dategrep (vs. grep)
+ datetest (vs. test)
+ dateround
+ datezone

1. yest

yest This is a command line date/time manipulation and formatting program, very useful in scripts. You can easily add or subtract days, hours and/or minutes from a specified date. Supports all date(1) output formats plus more.......

2. 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......

3. Dummynet

Dummynet dummynet is a live network emulation tool, originally designed for testing networking protocols, and since then used for a variety of applications including bandwidth management. It simulates/enforces queue and bandwidth limitations, delays, packet losses, and multipath effects. It also implements various scheduling algorithms. dummynet can be used on the machine......

4. PDFx

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

5. ncdu

ncdu A disk usage analyzer with an ncurses interface, aimed to be run on a remote server where you don't have an entire gaphical setup, but have to do with a simple SSH connection. ncdu aims to be fast, simple and easy to use, and should be able to run in......

6. cv

cv This tool looks for coreutils basic commands (cp, mv, dd, tar, gzip/gunzip, cat, ...) currently running on your system and displays the percentage of copied data. It can now also display an estimated throughput (using -w flag).......

7. Black Screen

Black Screen Black Screen is a terminal emulator for the 21st century. Unlike most emulators, it uses HTML and CSS for its UI (exactly as Atom does), which means we can stop misusing unicode characters and make a better looking terminal with appropriate tools.AutocompletionBlack Screen shows the autocompletion box as you type......

8. whiptail

whiptail display dialog boxes from shell scripts......

9. dialog

dialog display dialog boxes from shell scripts. Curses based. Works in console mode.......

10. xdialog

xdialog Xdialog is designed to be a drop in replacement for the "dialog" or "cdialog" programs. It converts any terminal based program into a program with an X-windows interface. The dialogs are easier to see and use while adding even more functionalities (e.g. with the treeview, the file selector, the edit......

11. jqnpm

jqnpm jqnpm - A package manager built for the command-line JSON processor jq.- Uses only namespaced packages, for example jqnpm install joelpurra/jq-stress, on GitHub by default; the example package would automatically be cloned from github.com/joelpurra/jq-stress.- Uses strict semantic versioning tags.- Use the packages in the jqnpm wiki - it's easy to......

12. wpull

wpull Wpull is a wget-compatible web downloader and crawler with WARC and Python/Lua scripting support......

13. FitGem

FitGem A command-line utility for checking Fitbit data......

14. grab-site

grab-site grab-site is a crawler for archiving websites to WARC files. It includes a dashboard for monitoring multiple crawls, and supports changing URL ignore patterns during the crawl.......

15. Explodomatica

Explodomatica This program is an attempt to automatically generate explosion sound effects for use in video games, etc.......