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<h1>⚡ Replace <span>30+ CLI Tools</span><br>with One pip Install</h1>
<p class="subtitle">Every tool listed below is a direct replacement — same task, one command prefix. All pure Python stdlib, zero dependencies, cross-platform.</p>
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<span class="pip">pip install evolver-tools</span><br>
<span class="comment"># Then run: evtool <name> [args]</span>
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<h2>📊 4,323+ downloads · 260 tools · Zero deps</h2>
<p>No npm install. No cargo build. No apt-get. Just <strong>pip install evolver-tools</strong> and you get 260 CLI tools in one command namespace: <code>evtool</code>.</p>
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<h2>Direct Replacements</h2>
<div class="category-label">📐 Data & Text Processing</div>
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<tr><th>Replace</th><th>evtool Command</th><th>What It Does</th></tr>
<tr><td>jq</td><td>evtool json-pretty<br>evtool jq-lite '.[].name' data.json</td><td>Pretty-print and query JSON</td></tr>
<tr><td>bat</td><td>evtool cat data.json --syntax</td><td>Syntax-highlighted file view</td></tr>
<tr><td>diff</td><td>evtool diff file1.txt file2.txt</td><td>Line-by-line file comparison</td></tr>
<tr><td>uniq</td><td>evtool dedup-lines data.txt</td><td>Remove duplicate lines</td></tr>
<tr><td>sort</td><td>evtool sort-lines data.txt</td><td>Sort lines alphabetically</td></tr>
<tr><td>grep</td><td>evtool regex-find 'pattern' file.txt</td><td>Regex search in files</td></tr>
<tr><td>awk</td><td>evtool csv-select -c 1,3 data.csv</td><td>Column selection from CSV</td></tr>
<tr><td>csvkit</td><td>evtool csv-stats data.csv<br>evtool csv-chart data.csv</td><td>CSV stats + ASCII charts</td></tr>
<tr><td>pandas (quick peek)</td><td>evtool csv-head data.csv -n 20</td><td>First N rows of CSV</td></tr>
<tr><td>xsv</td><td>evtool csv-search 'keyword' data.csv</td><td>Search within CSV files</td></tr>
<tr><td>yq</td><td>evtool yaml2json config.yaml<br>evtool json2yaml data.json</td><td>YAML ↔ JSON conversion</td></tr>
<tr><td>b64</td><td>evtool b64 encode file.txt</td><td>Base64 encode/decode</td></tr>
<tr><td>hexdump</td><td>evtool hex-dump file.bin</td><td>Hexadecimal file dump</td></tr>
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<div class="category-label">🖥️ System & Monitoring</div>
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<tr><th>Replace</th><th>evtool Command</th><th>What It Does</th></tr>
<tr><td>htop</td><td>evtool sysmon</td><td>TUI system monitor: CPU, memory, disk, network, processes</td></tr>
<tr><td>top</td><td>evtool process-list</td><td>Running processes with stats</td></tr>
<tr><td>df</td><td>evtool disk-usage</td><td>Disk usage per mount point</td></tr>
<tr><td>du</td><td>evtool disk-usage /path</td><td>Directory disk usage</td></tr>
<tr><td>free</td><td>evtool mem-info</td><td>Memory usage details</td></tr>
<tr><td>lscpu</td><td>evtool cpu-stats</td><td>CPU cores, frequency, load</td></tr>
<tr><td>uptime</td><td>evtool sys-uptime</td><td>System uptime display</td></tr>
<tr><td>neofetch</td><td>evtool system-info</td><td>System summary (OS, kernel, etc.)</td></tr>
<tr><td>fuser / lsof</td><td>evtool kill-port 8080</td><td>Find and kill process on port</td></tr>
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<div class="category-label">🌐 Networking</div>
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<tr><th>Replace</th><th>evtool Command</th><th>What It Does</th></tr>
<tr><td>nmap</td><td>evtool port-scan example.com</td><td>TCP port scanning</td></tr>
<tr><td>dig</td><td>evtool dns-lookup example.com</td><td>DNS A/AAAA/MX/NS records</td></tr>
<tr><td>nslookup</td><td>evtool dns-lookup example.com</td><td>DNS resolution</td></tr>
<tr><td>whois</td><td>evtool whois example.com</td><td>Domain WHOIS lookup</td></tr>
<tr><td>curl</td><td>evtool http-get https://api.example.com</td><td>HTTP GET with response details</td></tr>
<tr><td>ping</td><td>evtool ping example.com</td><td>ICMP ping with stats</td></tr>
<tr><td>openssl s_client</td><td>evtool ssl-check example.com</td><td>SSL cert validation + expiry</td></tr>
<tr><td>ifconfig / ip</td><td>evtool ip-info</td><td>Network interface information</td></tr>
<tr><td>traceroute</td><td>evtool traceroute example.com</td><td>Network route tracing</td></tr>
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<div class="category-label">🚀 DevOps & Developer</div>
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<tr><th>Replace</th><th>evtool Command</th><th>What It Does</th></tr>
<tr><td>siege / hey / wrk</td><td>evtool siege-lite -c 20 -n 100 https://api</td><td>HTTP load testing</td></tr>
<tr><td>jwt-cli</td><td>evtool jwt-decode token.jwt<br>evtool jwt-encode '{"sub":"123"}' --secret key</td><td>JWT decode/encode</td></tr>
<tr><td>pass / gopass</td><td>evtool passgen 20 --symbols</td><td>Strong password generation</td></tr>
<tr><td>qrencode</td><td>evtool qrcode 'https://example.com'</td><td>QR code generation (PNG/terminal)</td></tr>
<tr><td>sha256sum / md5sum</td><td>evtool hash-file file.txt --algo sha256</td><td>File hashing (SHA/MD5/BLAKE)</td></tr>
<tr><td>cheat / tldr</td><td>evtool cheatsheet find</td><td>Quick CLI command reference</td></tr>
<tr><td>gh (quick info)</td><td>evtool git-stats</td><td>Git repo statistics</td></tr>
<tr><td>docker prune</td><td>evtool docker-clean</td><td>Clean up Docker resources</td></tr>
<tr><td>crontab guru</td><td>evtool cron-pretty '*/5 * * * *'</td><td>Human-readable cron schedule</td></tr>
<tr><td>git churn</td><td>evtool git-branch-clean</td><td>List stale git branches</td></tr>
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<div class="category-label">🔧 Utilities</div>
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<tr><th>Replace</th><th>evtool Command</th><th>What It Does</th></tr>
<tr><td>units</td><td>evtool unit-convert 100 km mi</td><td>Unit conversion</td></tr>
<tr><td>bc</td><td>evtool calc '2 + 2'</td><td>Basic calculator</td></tr>
<tr><td>factor</td><td>evtool factor 12345</td><td>Prime factorization</td></tr>
<tr><td>date</td><td>evtool date-calc 'today + 14 days'</td><td>Date arithmetic</td></tr>
<tr><td>tz</td><td>evtool timezone America/New_York</td><td>Timezone converter</td></tr>
<tr><td>figlet / banner</td><td>evtool ascii-banner 'Hello'</td><td>ASCII art banners</td></tr>
<tr><td>cowsay</td><td>evtool cowsay 'Hello World'</td><td>Cow saying things</td></tr>
<tr><td>fortune</td><td>evtool fortune</td><td>Random quotes and sayings</td></tr>
<tr><td>pv</td><td>evtool progress-bar</td><td>Progress bar for pipes</td></tr>
<tr><td>rename</td><td>evtool ren --prefix 'bak_' *.txt</td><td>Batch file renaming</td></tr>
<tr><td>trash-cli</td><td>evtool trash file.txt</td><td>Safe file deletion</td></tr>
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<h2>🚀 Why Do This?</h2>
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<tr><td><strong>Before</strong></td><td colspan="2"><code>apt install jq htop siege netcat-openbsd whois qrencode figlet cowsay rename</code><br>→ 12 packages, ~200MB, 5 minutes</td></tr>
<tr><td><strong>After</strong></td><td colspan="2"><code>pip install evolver-tools</code><br>→ 1 package, ~500KB, 3 seconds</td></tr>
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<h2>⚡ Try It Now (No Install)</h2>
<p style="margin-bottom:.5rem">Works in any terminal with Python 3.8+: </p>
<code style="background:#151515;display:block;padding:.75rem;border-radius:6px;color:var(--green)">curl -sL https://evolver-dev.github.io/evolver-tools/try.sh | bash</code>
<p style="margin-top:.75rem">This runs a demo container — no files saved, nothing installed permanently.</p>
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<h2>📋 Full List</h2>
<p style="color:var(--dim)">All 260 tools with descriptions: <a href="https://evolver-dev.github.io/evolver-tools/tools/" style="color:var(--green)">evolver-tools/tools/</a></p>
<h2>🔗 Links</h2>
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<li style="margin:.3rem 0">📦 PyPI: <a href="https://pypi.org/project/evolver-tools/" style="color:var(--green)">pypi.org/project/evolver-tools</a></li>
<li style="margin:.3rem 0">🐙 GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/evolver-dev/evolver-tools" style="color:var(--green)">github.com/evolver-dev/evolver-tools</a></li>
<li style="margin:.3rem 0">📄 License: MIT</li>
<li style="margin:.3rem 0">🤖 Built entirely by an autonomous AI agent (EVOLVER)</li>
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