This package provides the tldr command allowing users to view tldr pages from a shell. The tldr pages are a community effort to simplify the man pages with practical examples described in https://tldr.sh/.

ack is a tool for finding text inside files. It is designed for hackers and programmers by being fast, ignoring VCS directories, letting a user easily specify file types, match highlighting, Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions, and being faster to type than grep.

Enca (Extremely Naive Charset Analyser) consists of libenca, an encoding detection library, and enca, a command line frontend, integrating libenca and several charset conversion libraries and tools.

Useful tools when working with Unicode files when one doesn't know the writing system, doesn't have the necessary font, needs to inspect invisible characters, needs to find out whether characters have been combined or in what order they occur, or needs statistics on which characters occur.

• uniname defaults to printing the character offset of each character, its byte offset, its hex code value, its encoding, the glyph itself, and its name. It may also be used to validate UTF-8 input.

• unidesc reports the character ranges to which different portions of the text belong. It can also be used to identify Unicode encodings (e.g. UTF-16be) flagged by magic numbers.

• unihist generates a histogram of the characters in its input.

• ExplicateUTF8 is intended for debugging or for learning about Unicode. It determines and explains the validity of a sequence of bytes as a UTF8 encoding.

• utf8lookup provides a handy way to look up Unicode characters from the command line.

• unireverse reverse each line of UTF-8 input character-by-character.

• unifuzz generates test input for programs that expect Unicode. It can generate a random string of characters, tokens of various potentially problematic characters and sequences, very long lines, strings with embedded nulls, and ill-formed UTF-8.

• unisurrogate takes a codepoint on the command line and, if it falls outside the BMP, reports its surrogate decomposition.

This package provides yq, a command-line YAML, JSON and XML processor. It uses jq-like syntax but works with YAML files as well as JSON, XML, properties, CSV and TSV.

Antiword is an application for displaying Microsoft Word documents. It can also convert the document to PostScript or XML. Only documents made by MS Word version 2 and version 6 or later are supported. The name comes from: "The antidote against people who send Microsoft Word files to everybody, because they believe that everybody runs Windows and therefore runs Word".

UTF8-CPP is a C++ library for handling UTF-8 encoded text in a portable way.

Miller (mlr) is like awk, sed, cut, join, and sort for data formats such as CSV, TSV, JSON, JSON Lines, and positionally-indexed. It supports format conversion and pretty-printing.

Libconfig is a simple library for manipulating structured configuration files. This file format is more compact and more readable than XML. And unlike XML, it is type-aware, so it is not necessary to do string parsing in application code.

html2text is a command line utility that converts HTML documents into plain text.

pfff is a tool for calculating a compact digital fingerprint of a file by sampling randomly from the file instead of reading it in full. Consequently, the computation has a flat performance characteristic, correlated with data variation rather than file size. pfff can be as reliable as existing hashing techniques, with provably negligible risk of collisions.

CityHash provides hash functions for strings. The functions mix the input bits thoroughly but are not suitable for cryptography.

Oniguruma is a regular expressions library. The special characteristic of this library is that different character encoding for every regular expression object can be specified.

utf8proc is a small C library that provides Unicode normalization, case-folding, and other operations for data in the UTF-8 encoding.

csvdiff is a diff tool to compute changes between two CSV files. It can compare CSV files with a million records in under 2 seconds. It is specifically suited for comparing CSV files dumped from database tables. GNU Diff is orders of magnitude faster for comparing line by line. csvdiff supports

• Selective comparison of fields in a row

• Specifying group of columns as primary-key to uniquely identify a row

• Ignoring columns

• Several output formats including colored git style output or JSON for post-processing

libgtextutils is a text utilities library used by the fastx toolkit from the Hannon Lab.

Vale is a fully extensible linter that focuses on your own writing style by making use of rules in individual YAML files. It is syntax-aware on markup languages such as HTML, Markdown, Asciidoc, and reStructuredText. The community around it also has a list of style guides implemented with Vale in their styles repo.

This package transforms JSON into discrete assignments to make it easier to use line-based tools such as grep to search for what you want and see the absolute "path" to it.

Libchardet is a universal charset detector C/C++ API.

libconfuse is a configuration file parser library. It supports sections and (lists of) values (strings, integers, floats, booleans or other sections), as well as some other features (such as single/double-quoted strings, environment variable expansion, functions and nested include statements).

The Recode library converts files between character sets and usages. It recognises or produces over 200 different character sets (or about 300 if combined with an iconv library) and transliterates files between almost any pair. When exact transliteration are not possible, it gets rid of offending characters or falls back on approximations. The recode program is a handy front-end to the library.

utf-8-lineseparator provides a tool to efficiently check text files for valid UTF-8 use and to report which line endings they use.

Termdown provides a fancy text display while it counts down to zero from a starting point you provide. The user can pause and resume the countdown from the text user interface. It can also be used in stop watch mode which counts forward or for just showing the current time.

Arrow is a Python library to creating, manipulating, formatting and converting dates, times, and timestamps. It implements and updates the datetime type.