Common Commands

Spawn an SSH Agent process.An SSH Agent holds SSH keys decrypted in memory until removed or the process is killed.See also ssh-add, which can add and manage keys held by an SSH Agent.

Manage loaded SSH keys in the ssh-agent.Ensure that ssh-agent is up and running for the keys to be loaded in it.

Run a Shadowsocks client as a SOCKS5 proxy.

Securely remove files or directories.Overwrites the existing data one or multiple times. Drop in replacement for rm.

A command-line AWS Simple Queue Service client.

Detect and exploit SQL injection flaws.

The command-line interface to SQLite 3, which is a self-contained file-based embedded SQL engine.

Command-line tool used to manipulate SQLite databases in a number of different ways.

Convert an Atari uncompressed Spectrum image to a PPM image.

Download Spotify playlists and songs along with metadata.

Soak up the input before writing the output file.

Split a file into pieces.

A fully featured static website generator written in JavaScript.

Customize the Spotify client UI and functionality.

Sphinx documentation generator.

Query Sender Policy Framework records to validate e-mail senders.

Note: some platforms link speedtest to speedtest-cli or other tools like librespeed, which can also be installed as speedtest on certain Linux distributions.These command examples apply only to the official client.

See also: speedtest for the official CLI.

A high-precision scientific calculator.