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Console is a Windows console-window enhancement. It was inspired by eConsole. Console features include configurable font, color, size, background image and transparency (on Win2000 and later) Link

tcptraceroute

DAG: tcptraceroute RPM packages for Red Hat/Fedora
tcptraceroute is a traceroute implementation using TCP packets.

The more traditional traceroute sends out either UDP or ICMP ECHO packets with a TTL of one, and increments the TTL until the destination has been reached. By printing the gateways that generate ICMP time exceeded messages along the way, it is able to determine the path packets are taking to reach the destination.

The problem is that with the widespread use of firewalls on the modern Internet, many of the packets that traceroute sends out end up being filtered, making it impossible to completely trace the path to the destination. However, in many cases, these firewalls will permit inbound TCP packets to specific ports that hosts sitting behind the firewall are listening for connections on. By sending out TCP SYN packets instead of UDP or ICMP ECHO packets, tcptraceroute is able to bypass the most common firewall filters.

GnuWin32

GnuWin32: "GnuWin32 provides Win32 (MS Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 / XP) ports of tools with a GNU or similar open source license. The ports are native ports, that is they rely only on libraries provided with any standard 32-bits MS-Windows operating system."
Summary
Packages Include:

• GNU utilities: bc, bison, chess, compface, cpio, coreutils (fileutils, sh-utils, stat, textutils), diffutils, doschk, ed, findutils, flex, gawk, gdbm, gcal, gengetopt, gettext, gperf, grep, groff, gsl, gzip, hello, help2man, iconv, jwhois, less, m4, miscfiles, patch, readline, regex, rx, sed, sharutils, tar, texinfo, tree, units, unrtf, wget, which
• Archivers and compressors: arc, arj, bsdtar, bzip2, gzip, lha, libarchive, unzip / zip, zlib
• Other utilities: byacc, cpuid, cygutils, file, ntfsprogs, openssl, pcre, popt, re2c, rpl, sgrep, tree, x86info
• Graphics packages: asciichart, compface, gd, jpeg, jbigkit, liburt, libungif, libpng and png utilities, libwmf, netpbm, piechart, plotutils, tiff, xpm, zimg
• Textprocessing- and postscript-related packages: a2ps, barcode, bm2font, deroff, dvidj, enscript, freetype, grap, gri, groff, indent, libxml, nenscript, pdflib, polyglotman, psutils, scribe2latex, src-highlite, t1lib, t1utils, troff2latex, ttf2pt1, unrtf
• Mathematical and statistical packages: bc, calc, crypt, fdlibm, gsl, units

deep

deep: "A powerful and extensible Perl script which recursively traverses subdirectories, processing files that match a given filename pattern. There are different commands, which are summarized below. The script is free; anyone may use it with no restrictions."

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I've been mentioned in the Changelog!
I was pretty happy to be able to make deep work on my Windows machine and sent my method to Neil Gunton who made it look nicer and added it to the script. [SLW]

tools4ever Free Command Line Tools

Freeware scriptable command line network connectivity tools - I find T4ePortPing especially useful when checking connectivity to devices through a firewall. ICMP may be blocked, but TCP... that's an open book. ;-)

"Looking for a set of powerful command line utilities to integrate in your scripts or in your own application? We have put together a bundle of useful command line utilities for managing your network faster and more efficiently:"

T4eWebPing
Gets the response time and header code for any input URL; great for testing scripts, execution times and 404 errors on your website.
T4ePortPing
Connects to any TCP/IP port and retrieves the response time and error code. You can use this at the command line to check a single IP and port, or in scripts to automatically see which ports are open on your clients or servers.
T4eSQL
Connects to any ODBC database and executes a custom query, results can be written to a text file; useful for database monitoring (systables).
T4eDirSize
Gets the free and used space of any directory or share, also counts the number of special files (encrypted, readonly, hidden, system, etc); great for monitoring free space and file statistics.
T4eRexec
This command line utility is similar to the Windows REXEC command, but accepts a password as input and can therefore run in unattended mode. To run commands on a REXEC compatible OS, such as Linux, the REXEC daemon has to be running on the target system. Note that passwords are transmitted in clear text, for a more secure version look to the SSH versions below.
T4eSSH
A secure implementation of the SSH protocol to get access to a UNIX/Linux operating system. This implementation uses the OpenSSH library and can run in unattended mode when using private and public key files.
T4eUnixInfo
This tool uses the REXEC daemon to remotely execute several pre-defined scripts compatible with Linux, to get system specific information such as DISK, MEMORY, SWAP and CPU. Note that the password to access the remote operating system is transmitted in clear text, look below for a secure SSH implementation.
T4eSSHUnixInfo
This tool uses the SSH daemon to securely execute several pre-defined scripts compatible with Linux, to get system specific information such as DISK, MEMORY, SWAP and CPU. This implementation uses the OpenSSH library and can run in unattended mode when using private and public key files.