If one doesn't need the extended functionality of Grep, they can search and highlight directly with Less:

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we can have full syntax highlight within less, just use pygmentize. https://superuser.com/questions/7158...light-via-less
we also have another highlighter tool, a generic colorizer: grc https://github.com/garabik/grc
(interestingly it is not that popular)

when someone wants a program like XYZ or FOO (pick any program) to be ported to Linux, are they wanting the original developer to release a Linux version for about the same commercial price, likely in a binary form, perhaps with run restrictions to avoid theft of the software, or are they wanting a new development by a different developer, perhaps free, perhaps open source (ready to compile), but definitely for Linux, and possibly also for BSD?

me, personally, i like FOSS so i can improve it or customize it. i can't program in every language, so it's kinda limited for me.

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It's great to see a space where users can express their needs directly.

For FAT32, fatattr can view and modify Windows file attributes on Linux. For NTFS, there is setfattr. But nothing like this seems to exist for exFAT yet.

Also, there is currently no way to set Windows attributes in 7z archives on Linux. allows at least viewing such attributes.

Something that shows a list of damaged files. IsoBuster can do this on Windows. On Linux, this should be implemented by feeding a LBA list generated from "badblocks" into the program, then it identifies files that contain these blocks.

UDF orphaned directory finder like IsoBuster on Windows. But it seems nothing related to UDF will be developed in a long time to come. UDF 2.50 and 2.60 writing support is well overdue. Both packet writing on optical discs and normal writing on flash media and HDD.

Affinity Suite; designer, publisher etc

SkimPDF

HookMark

forscan

Something similar to convert.exe, could be named fat2ntfs. Perhaps also an ext4 counterpart (fat2ext4). Not a priority, but I hope one day it will be made. In case anyone needs ideas.

Actually, a NTFS to FAT tool seems to have existed once by a third-party, but was proprietary. Unlike NTFS, FAT was never designed with conversion in mind.

HxD an on top hex editor (for free but only for windows, https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/).
To open files with size of 23GB no problem. To search for Hex-strings over the whole file no problem.
To cut the 23GB file not a problem.
With wine the program does not work (save the edited file leads to a memory fault).

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MSKERMIT.

This was a real terminal emulator, not a virtual terminal emulator like YAKUAKE or XTERM, it emulated several VT and YANG physical terminals on MS-DOS. You had to have a IP stack already installed to get to network servers, but with LINUX or BSD that is already in place. If I can find the sources I might even take a stab at that myself.

HDDScan is a freeware Windows tool that draws a line graph showing the speed of mass storage media (hard drives and flash storage). This makes dips in speed clearly visible, which indicate degrading or low-quality media.

Graphical disk benchmarks on Linux are the built-in tool of GNOME Disks and KDiskMark. But GNOME Disks only supports sample-based benchmarking, not full-disk benchmarking, and KDiskMark has no line graph, making it only a Linux counterpart to CrystalDiskMark. So both are no replacement for HDDScan.

Besides, GNOME Disks preselects the write benchmark every time. This is a bad idea for obvious reasons, so the user is forced to not forget unchecking it every time before running it.

For optical discs, QpxTool exists (similar to Nero DiscSpeed on Windows), but nothing like this exists for HDD and flash memory.

For Linux, tools already exist, but they are no replacement for HxD.

WxHexEditor is the closest thing to HxD but is unstable and crashes. It wasn't developed since 2012.

ghex can only operate on files and not disks, and it loads the entire file into memory, making it useless for large disk images.

hexedit runs entirely in the terminal but is unmaintained too. I suggest you give it a try nonetheless.

Hexed.it too, runs on a browser and is actively maintained.

Both of these are rather silly and for somewhat silly reasons but still:

CyberLink PowerDVD - Because I am stubborn and want to play my DVDs on my computer without running afoul of the DMCA in the US
Minecraft Bedrock - Because Microsoft started using Google Play's DRM causing issues for the mcpelauncher project and I have friends and family who are stuck playing on Bedrock.