This article selects 100 awesome command-line interface (CLI) apps. The compilation mostly reflects software our volunteers use as their daily drivers.
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Category: CLI
h-m-m – create mind maps in the terminal
h-m-m is billed as a simple, fast, keyboard-centric tool for working with mind maps.
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Essential System Utilities: bottom – graphical process/system monitor for the terminal
bottom is billed as a customizable cross-platform graphical process/system monitor for the terminal.
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Machine Learning in Linux: CodeFormer – face restoration
CodeFormer is software which offers blind face restoration. This is freeware.
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Machine Learning in Linux: FBCNN – JPEG artifacts removal
FBCNN (flexible blind convolutional neural network) is software which seeks to remove artifacts from JPEGs while preserving the integrity of the images
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Drop-in replacements for Core Utilities
The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing implementations for many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, which are used on Unix-like operating systems.
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Machine Learning in Linux: scikit-learn – machine learning library for Python
scikit-learn is one of the most commonly used packages when it comes to Machine Learning and Python.
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Machine Learning in Linux: InvokeAI – a Stable Diffusion Toolkit
InvokeAI is a Stable Diffusion toolkit. This software lets you generate highly detailed images based on text descriptions.
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Machine Learning in Linux: Whisper – automatic speech recognition system
Whisper is an automatic speech recognition (ASR) system trained on 680,000 hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data.
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tuc – drop-in replacement for cut
tuc is a similar tool to cut but offers additional functionality. It’s free and open source software written in Rust.
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Machine Learning in Linux: Old Photo Restoration
Old Photo Restoration is an academic project that lets you restore old photos. This software uses PyTorch and is written in Python.
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Machine Learning in Linux: Real-ESRGAN – image and video restoration software
Real-ESRGAN is a project that aims to create practical algorithms for general image/video restoration. It’s free and open source software.
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Machine Learning in Linux: Demucs – music source separation
Demucs is billed as “a state-of-the-art music source separation model”.
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Machine Learning in Linux: GFPGAN – Face restoration software
GFPGAN is deep learning software for real-world face restoration. This software can radically improve the quality of images.
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cTune – ncurses based internet radio player
cTune is an ncurses based internet radio player written in C. This is free and open source software.
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Revisited: PyRadio – curses based internet radio player
PyRadio is a cross-platform curses based internet radio player written in Python. Let’s check out the current version.
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Linux Candy: pyjokes – one line jokes for programmers
pyjokes is a terminal based program that tells one line jokes for programmers.
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Essential System Utilities: WTF – terminal dashboard
WTF (also known as ‘wtfutil’) is billed as “the personal information dashboard for your terminal”.
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Excellent Utilities: Nushell – flexible cross-platform shell with a modern feel
Nushell is billed as a new type of shell. The aim is to adopt the Unix philosophy of shells where pipes connect command together.
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34 Best Free Linux Backup Software (Updated 2023)
Backup software is used to perform a complete back up of a file, data, database, system or server. Here’s the best open source backup software.
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