ONICS is a command line tool suite along with the code building blocks for those tools to capture, dissect, manipulate and send network data. The intent of these tools is to make it possible to manipulate packets on the command line in a UNIX-shell like fashion the same way one can manipulate text with programs like sed, awk, cat, tr, etc. In fact, many of said command line tools and be used with the ONICS tool suite if done properly. There are currently 21 binary tools and 22 Bourne shell scripts in the repository.