moreutils

The moreutils package is a set of utilities for Linux and FreeBSD.  Some of the commands included are:

chronic: Runs a command quietly unless it fails.

combine: Combine the lines in two files using boolean operations.

errno: Look up errno names and descriptions.

ifdata: Get network interface information without parsing ifconfig output.

ifne: Run a program if the standard input is not empty.

isutf8: Check if a file or standard input is UTF-8.

lckdo: Execute a program with a lock held.

mispipe: Pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first.

parallel: Run multiple jobs at once.

pee: tee standard input to pipes.

sponge: Soak up standard input and write to a file.

ts: Timestamp standard input.

vidir: Edit a directory in your text editor.

vipe: Insert a text editor into a pipe.

zrun: Automatically uncompress arguments to command.

More information can be found at the moreutils web site at https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/.