{"id":970,"slug":"utility","name":"Utility Software","short_description":"Utility software is software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize or maintain a computer.","url":"https://github.com/topics/utility","github_count":15586,"created_by":null,"logo_url":null,"released":null,"wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_software","related_topics":[],"aliases":[],"github_url":null,"content":"\u003cp\u003eUtility software is software designed to help analyze, configure, optimize or maintain a computer. It is used to support the computer infrastructure - in contrast to application software, which is aimed at directly performing tasks that benefit ordinary users. However, utilities often form part of the application systems. For example, a batch job may run user-written code to update a database and may then include a step that runs a utility to back up the database, or a job may run a utility to compress a disk before copying files.\u003c/p\u003e\n\n","created_at":"2024-07-29T14:03:09.468Z","updated_at":"2026-10-04T00:33:09.813Z","topic_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/topics/utility","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/topics/utility","projects_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects?keyword=utility","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/lists?topic=utility"}