In this web content, the author shares their discovery of handy command line utilities that they’ve never encountered before. They mention the bird coreutils as well-known utilities but introduce moreutils, which includes the ts command for tracing program invocations and converting time stamps into relative times. The author also highlights the sponge command, which can save the result of modifying a file back into the same file, and the vidir command for editing files and directories. They mention the use of the vipe command for editing output between pipes and the pee command for passing stdin to multiple commands. The author concludes by mentioning other command sets like evenmoreutils and num-utils.
https://jpospisil.com/2023/12/19/the-hidden-gems-of-moreutils