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catgirl – terminal IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

catgirl is a terminal IRC client. It requires ncurses and libtls, provided by either LibreTLS (for OpenSSL) or by LibreSSL.

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ircc – minimal curses IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

ircc is a simple IRC client. It’s written in the C programming language and requires the ncurses library to compile.

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glirc – advanced console IRC client

August 22, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

glirc is built around a philosophy that the client maintains a model of the IRC connection state and provides various views of that model.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: telnet

August 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to telnet, a tool to login to a remote system.

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percol – interactive grep tool in your terminal

August 21, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Internet

percol is an interactive grep tool in your terminal. This tool is written in the Python programming language and is open source software.

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Alternatives to popular CLI tools: talk

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Software

This article spotlights alternative tools to talk, a venerable talk client.

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YTalk – multi-user chat program

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

YTalk is in essence a multi-user chat program supporting both talk and ntalk protocols.

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utalk – UDP-based talk

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

utalk is a one-to-one text chat program alternative to the Unix ‘talk’ client, which uses a more responsive protocol built over UDP (instead of TCP).

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ntalk – chat application

August 14, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

ntalk is a chat application. It is designed to be much more friendly than Unix talk and provide a nice console interface.

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ttyper – terminal-based typing test

August 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Education

ttyper is a terminal-based typing test. It supports a good range of languages including English, German, Norwegian, Ukrainian, and Spanish.

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toipe – trusty terminal typing tester

August 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Education

toipe is a trusty terminal typing tester. toipe looks best on a nice terminal (such as Alacritty) with color and style support.

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thokr – sleek typing TUI

August 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Education

thokr is a sleek typing TUI with visualized results and historical logging. It’s written in the Rust programming language.

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tt – terminal based typing test

August 13, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Education

tt is a terminal based typing test. By default tt creates a test consisting of 50 randomly generated words from the top 1000 English words.

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rename.pl – rename files using Perl expressions

August 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rename.pl allows renaming files using Perl code, such as regular expression replaces (s/old/new/), character translation, and other code.

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Documentation

renameutils – programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome

August 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

The file renaming utilities (renameutils for short) are a set of programs designed to make renaming of files faster and less cumbersome.

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rename – rename multiple files

August 11, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

This program renames files according to modification rules specified on the command line.

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hodie – prints the date in Latin

August 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

hodie brings new functionality to your UNIX installations. It prints out the current date and time in Roman digits.

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datemath – date and time math utility

August 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

datemath is a command line date and time math utility. This is free and open source software written in the C language.

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qtime – clock coded in Rust

August 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

qTime is a simple command-line application that retrieves the current user’s name and displays it along with the current date and time.

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rdate – retrieve date and time from other machines

August 10, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

rdate connects to an RFC 868 time server over a TCP/IP network, printing the returned time and/or setting the system clock.

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