Search, Inspection, and File Handling

Tools used to find text, inspect structured data, transfer files, compress archives, and understand folder contents.

Products

7-Zip is a file archiver with high-compression formats and broad archive support.

curl is a command-line tool for transferring data with URLs across HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and many other protocols.

GNU tar creates, lists, and extracts archive files used to package file trees.

GNU Wget retrieves files from the web using HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and FTPS.

jq is a lightweight command-line processor for slicing, filtering, mapping, and transforming JSON.

ripgrep is a fast recursive search tool that combines regular-expression search with ignore-file support.

tree lists directory contents in a recursive tree format for quick folder inspection.

yq is a portable command-line data processor for YAML and related structured data formats.