moreutils
You might know of moreutils‘s existence already, but in case you do not use them so far please give it a try as it’s definitely worth a look:
Description: additional unix utilities This is a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write thirty years ago. . So far, it includes the following utilities: - isutf8: check if a file or standard input is utf-8 - 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 - combine: combine the lines in two files using boolean operations - ifdata: get network interface info without parsing ifconfig output - pee: tee standard input to pipes - zrun: automatically uncompress arguments to command - mispipe: pipe two commands, returning the exit status of the first