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My A-Z toolbox: a

Origin

I stole that idea from Ruben (see his post series): listing tools I'm using, and do so per alphabet letter.

List

Top pick: atuin

I discovered atuin thanks to Pierre-Yves M.
It's an improved Shell history tool, which allows you much more granular search than the stock history, and also gives you more details such as the time it took to execute a specific command.

Others

• amtool: AlertManager's CLI tool
• awk - of course!

Tools I discovered

This, Ruben does not have it!

I'm adding this section to show / talk about tools I discovered while writing this series of posts - so here we go!

arpaname

When given an IP address, it will tell you which in-addr.arpa name it corresponds to.

$ arpaname 192.168.42.42
42.42.168.192.IN-ADDR.ARPA

Yeah - I wouldn't say it's useful for me, but it probably is for others!

Tags: IT